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 […]
Filing a Customs Declaration in the Dominican Republic: Five Business Days, One Filing, Real Surcharges An importer whose container is legally received at a Dominican port has five business days to file the customs declaration. Miss the deadline and the meter starts: a 5% surcharge for the first week of delay, plus 3% for each […]
Selling From a Dominican Free Zone Into the Local Market: The 3.5% Tax and the Monthly RZF-01 Filing The tax exemption of a Dominican free zone ends at its fence. A company operating under Free Zones Law 8-90 pays essentially nothing on what it exports, and a very specific set of taxes the moment it […]
Transfer Pricing in the Dominican Republic: The DIOR Filing You May Owe Even With No Transactions Here is the detail that catches multinationals off guard in the Dominican Republic: a company can owe a transfer pricing filing even in a year when it transacted nothing with its affiliates. Since Decree 256-21, any taxpayer that meets […]
Paperless Customs in the Dominican Republic: How Digital Filings Became the Rule, Not the Exception In 2011, a resolution few outside the trade noticed quietly rewired Dominican logistics: Resolution 025-11 declared that digital documents and data messages filed with customs would carry the same legal force as their paper equivalents. The resolution applied the Electronic […]
Claiming a Tax Exemption in the Dominican Republic: Why Every Request Runs Through the Finance Ministry First An exemption written into a Dominican law, concession or congressionally ratified contract is worth nothing at the tax window until one thing happens: the Ministry of Finance processes and approves it. Until then, the DGII and the customs […]
When Dominican Customs Doubts Your Invoice: Valuation Rules and How to Respond The most expensive moment in an import operation is often not the tariff. It is the notification that the customs authority doubts the value you declared. Dominican customs valuation follows the WTO standard built on Article VII of the GATT 1994: goods are […]
Recording Your Trademark with Dominican Customs: The DGA Rights-Holder Registry Customs officers can only stop what they can recognize. That is the premise behind the Dominican Customs Registration of Owners of Intellectual Property Rights, created by Resolution 01-2010 of August 4, 2010, to facilitate the inspection and withholding of merchandise in customs transit suspected of […]
Renewable Energy Tax Incentives in the Dominican Republic: What Survives of Law 57-07 The most generous promise of the Dominican Republic’s renewable energy law no longer exists, and knowing which incentives survived is what separates a well-structured solar project from an expensive misunderstanding. Law 57-07 of 2007 remains the framework for renewable energy incentives, administered […]
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