Dominican Real Estate Property Sale Release Tax Norm

Dominican Real Estate Property Sale Tax Ruling 08-2014 of December 22, 2014, provides for the Release of Real Estate Property from the seller’s information registered at the Dominican Tax Administration’s registration system. Individuals and legal entities that sale a real estate property before or after the publication of said Tax Ruling must file a release […]

Dominican Legal Translators and Court Interpreters

On December 8 of 2014, the Judiciary Council (CPJ) of the Dominican Republic issued Resolution 13-2014, thereby appointing 115 new judicial interpreters in different languages, who may provide legal translation of documents as well as language interpretation services in different courts of the country, within the corresponding powers granted in their role as auxiliaries of […]

Arthur & Castillo at the International Jurists AGM

Cross-Border Legal Trends: Arthur & Castillo at the International Jurists Meeting The legal problems arriving at a Dominican firm’s door increasingly originate elsewhere: a data dispute governed by foreign law, an e-commerce venture selling into a dozen markets, an investor structuring through three jurisdictions. Keeping pace requires more than reading, it requires comparing notes with […]

Data Protection in the Dominican Republic

Data Protection in the Dominican Republic: What Law 172-13 Covers and the Reform Waiting in Congress Every business that holds customer data in the Dominican Republic operates under a statute written in 2013, largely with credit bureaus in mind. That gap between what companies actually do with data and what the law was built to […]