Trademark registration in Dominican Republic is governed by Industrial Property Law 20-00 and its Regulations. A trademark in the Dominican Republic is defined as any sign or combination of signs that may be graphically symbolized and are suitable to distinguish the products or services of a business from those of others. Although the registration of […]
Dominican Republic Residency by Investment or Retirement: The Fast Track Most Applicants Overlook A retired couple with a USD 1,500 monthly pension can skip the line. While most foreigners must first hold Dominican temporary residency and wait years to upgrade, the country’s special incentives regime for pensioners and rentiers grants permanent residency directly, often the […]
Dominican Free Zone Installation Permit: The 8 Requirements Every Applicant Must File Before a single machine is installed or a lease signed, every company seeking Dominican free zone status must clear one gate: the installation permit from the National Free Zones Council (CNZFE). The Council requires applicants to appoint a Dominican law firm as legal […]
Making a Will in the Dominican Republic: Forced Heirship and What Foreigners Need to Know. In the Dominican Republic, dying without a will does not mean your family decides what happens next, the law does. Forced heirship rules, inherited from the French civil-law tradition, reserve a fixed portion of every estate for specific heirs, chiefly […]
Law 57-23: Tax Exemptions for Airlines and Aviation Operators in the Dominican Republic For an airline, the tax on an aircraft lease payment can decide whether a route to the Caribbean is profitable. The Dominican Republic understood this when it enacted Law 57-23 in October 2023, creating a dedicated tax exemption regime for national and […]
Law 173 Dealer Protection in the Dominican Republic: What Foreign Suppliers Risk by Registering a Distributor A foreign manufacturer terminates its Dominican distributor after years of disappointing sales, and receives a claim for damages calculated under a statutory formula, in a Dominican court whose jurisdiction cannot be contracted away. This scenario, familiar to trade lawyers […]
Joint Ventures in the Dominican Republic: A Partnership Without Legal Personality and Why That Matters The most consequential fact about a Dominican joint venture is what it is not: a company. Foreign investors accustomed to incorporating a JV vehicle discover that Dominican law recognizes joint ventures as purely contractual arrangements, ‘joint participation’ entities, with no […]
The Closing Is Not the Ending: The Transfer by Sale at the Dominican Title Registry Ask when a Dominican property purchase ends and most buyers point to the closing: the deed signed, the price paid, the keys and the handshake. Dominican law points somewhere else. In a registration system, the sale between the parties is […]
For a few months in 2023, the Dominican tax authority offered something rare: a legal path to wipe out or drastically shrink old tax debts. Law 51-23, enacted August 10, 2023, opened a special window, originally set to close on December 20, 2023, combining four tools that taxpayers seldom see together. First, a statute-of-limitations declaration: […]
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