Costa Rica’s General Directorate of Taxation (DGT) and the Costa Rican Institute on Drugs (ICD) updated the regulations governing the beneficial ownership registry; they jointly issued Resolution No. MH-DGT-RES-0020-2024 / DG-336-2024 in the Official Gazette on 19 September 2024.

The updates include new general power of attorney requirements for authorised third-party filers and an extended deadline for filing annual beneficial ownership declarations in 2024.

The resolution extends the 2024 filing deadline between 1 October 2024 and 31 October 2024. However, the standard declaration deadline is set to April every year.