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Notes on compliance, automation and the close

Practical writing on Costa Rican tax and payroll obligations, and on the tooling that turns a monthly close into a routine rather than an event.

The VAT credits you are not claiming are the ones you never saw

Costa Rica made electronic invoicing mandatory, which means every supplier invoice already exists as structured data. Most businesses still retype it — and quietly lose the credits they never captured.

Humberto Zúñiga · August 20, 2026 · 6 min read

Where is your month actually going?

Twelve questions on how your finance operation runs today: where the hours go, where compliance is exposed, and what closing the gap would involve.