Dominican Regulation of Sale Transfers and Endorsements of New and Used Motor Vehicles, 06-2013 was issued on December 12, 2013 and provides for a procedure to formalize the transfers of vehicles in favor of concessionaires and dealers. Said procedure includes the duty, by the owner of the vehicle, to notify the transfer or exchange of […]
Free Zone Payroll in the Dominican Republic: How the Sector’s Minimum Wage Is Set, and Why It Changes For a manufacturer choosing between Caribbean production sites, one number drives the spreadsheet: the legal minimum wage. In the Dominican Republic’s industrial free zones, that number is not fixed by statute once and forever, it is negotiated […]
Dominican Real Estate Law Developments, include a Draft Bill amending Tourism Development Promotion Law 158-01 (“Confotur Law”). On July 22th of 2013, the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic approved the Draft Bill amending Confotur Law No. 158-01 of Incentives for Tourism Development of the Dominican Republic to include non- exempt urban and oceanfront […]
Mining in the Dominican Republic: Who Regulates the Sector and What Investors Must Know First The Dominican Republic hosts one of the largest gold mines in the Americas, yet an investor approaching the sector quickly discovers that the first challenge is not geological, it is institutional: knowing which authority actually decides. Since Law 100-13, that […]
Foreign Investment in the Dominican Republic: What Law 16-95 Guarantees — and Why Registration Still Matters Foreign direct investment in the Dominican Republic crossed the five-billion-dollar mark in 2025 — a record, driven largely by tourism and real estate. Behind that flow of capital sits a statute that has barely changed since 1995: Foreign Investment […]
Dominican Real Estate Property Survey is mandated and regulated under Resolution 1419-2013 of May 16, 2013, of Diverse Procedures before the Title Registrars and the Cadastral Measurement Offices (“Resolution No.1419-2013”). Within the Diverse Procedures proposed in such Resolution No.1419-2013, is the survey (or deslinde) of real estate properties supported by Annotated Records (i.e. Constancias Anotadas), and […]
Dr. Felipe Isa Castillo, Partner of Arthur & Castillo (ACLAW), has been featured in the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law publication “The Year in Review” 2013 for Cross Border Dominican Republic Real Estate Practice. The publication consists of an annual survey of international legal developments in different areas of international and national law […]
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