Many founders underestimate this role — until a missed filing, an incomplete record, or a compliance gap starts slowing everything down.
In Costa Rica, a corporate secretary is the person keeping your company legally alive, tax-compliant, and ready for whatever comes next — a sale, a partner, a loan, an audit.
Here’s what that actually means:
We keep your company on the right side of the law
Every Costa Rica company — SA or SRL — has ongoing legal obligations: annual shareholder resolutions, updated corporate books, a registered address, a legal representative on file, and mandatory beneficial owner registration. Miss any of these and your company is technically out of compliance. That matters the moment you need to do anything with it.
We handle your tax filings before Hacienda notices you didn’t
Monthly IVA and Renta declarations don’t file themselves. The Ministerio de Hacienda cross-references your filings against your assets, your income, and your corporate capital declaration. If the numbers don’t add up — and for many inactive companies they don’t — that’s a flag. Fines start small and compound fast.
We connect your legal structure to your financial reality
This is where most corporate secretaries stop short. At Peninsula Counsels, we don’t separate the legal from the financial. The same team that files your declaration reviews whether your structure actually fits your business — and flags when it doesn’t. Lawyers and accountants, same office, same conversation.
We make sure you’re not holding a liability when you think you’re holding an asset
A company that hasn’t been maintained isn’t neutral. It’s a risk. Unregistered beneficial owners, unpaid declarations, mismatched capital — these aren’t administrative oversights. They’re problems that surface at the worst time: when you want to sell, refinance, or bring in investors.
Not sure where your company stands?
We offer a free company review — no commitment.
We’ll tell you exactly what’s current, what’s missing, and what it takes to get clean.
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