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 Law 16-95. […]
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 […]
How Dominican Trusts Are Taxed: Ruling 02-12, Transfer Taxes and the Trustee’s Duties A fideicomiso does not pay taxes the way a company does, but it is far from invisible to the tax authority. The rules of the game were set by Tax Authority Ruling 02-12, issued to spell out the duties and procedures that […]
Trademarks in Dominican Republic: How the Nice Classification Decides What Your Registration Protects Two companies can lawfully own the identical brand name in the Dominican Republic, one for software, one for rum, because a trademark registration protects a name only within the classes of goods and services it designates. Choosing those classes is not clerical […]
Dominican Tourism Sector Land Use and Organization Plan Resolutions issued by Ministry of Tourism of the Dominican Republic on March 26th of 2012, modify the Urban and Construction parameters for the northern part of the Samaná Peninsula, the Punta Cana, Bávaro- Macao Area, respectively. The purpose of these resolutions is to regulate the urban categorization, […]
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 […]
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