Employers of Dominican hotels, casinos, restaurants, bars, cafes, cafeterias, night clubs, fast food and other food and beverage business, should know that Dominican Labor Ministry Resolution 17-2015 of National Minimum Wage for such sectorized employees was approved on August 25, 2015. The most relevant provisions of Resolution 17-2015 include: Fixing the minimum wage of Dominican […]
The Dominican Republic’s Bid to Become the Caribbean’s Air Hub, and What It Means for Investors Ten million tourists a year. That was the target on the table when the Dominican Republic’s tourism industry and commercial aviation sector agreed to push a shared goal: turning the country into the Caribbean’s principal air hub. The initiative, […]
Proindustria Qualification: The Tax Incentives Dominican Manufacturers Leave on the Table Hundreds of manufacturers operating in the Dominican Republic have qualified under Law 392-07 on Industrial Development and Competitiveness since 2007, yet many industrial companies, particularly foreign-owned ones, still pay taxes the law would let them avoid, simply because they never sought qualification. The Industrial […]
Arthur & Castillo at the International Jurists AGM: What a Global Legal Network Means for Clients in the Dominican Republic When a Dominican transaction touches three jurisdictionsm, a seller in Santo Domingo, financing from Madrid, a buyer in Toronto, no single law firm can cover it alone. That is the practical problem international legal networks […]
Registering Imported Food, Drugs and Cosmetics in the Dominican Republic: The DIGEMAPS Rules No medicine, packaged food, cosmetic or hygiene product legally reaches a Dominican shelf, or a Dominican hospital, without passing through one office. Decree 82-15, issued April 6, 2015, created that office: the General Directorate of Pharmaceutical, Foods and Sanitary Health Products, DIGEMAPS, […]
Dominican Free Zones: The Legal Engine Behind an Export Boom Textiles, footwear, cigars, medical devices: the products leaving Dominican free zones read like a map of the country’s industrial strengths, and the United States buys more of them than any other market. When free zone exports grew 6.2% in a single quarter, the strongest pace […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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