ICS Consultores is the proposal for growth of our business partners. Therefore, to us the continuous growth of our employees is something highly important.  We are sure that if our staff grows in knowledge and abilities, ICS Consultores and its clients grow together.

We invite you to submit your Resume in order to be a step closer to be part of the innovation and well done and on time service ICS Consultores provides to its clients.

ICS: Capable and in continuous development professionals.  Be part of our journey to the stars.

Submit your Resume here.

Focus your resources in developing your business and transfer to our specialists the complete management of the associated Risk related to payroll preparation.

Benefits to our clients:

• No more salary payments or employer’s contributions.
• Less workspace needed.
• No need to spend in Software and Hardware.
• Savings in depreciation or substitution of equipment.
• Better control and supervision of the process.
• We guarantee the payroll payment the day established.
• Satisfied employees (well calculated payroll).
• We assure a quick attention to your questions.
• Vacations Control.
• Severance payments.
• Interfase for solidarity associations.
• Emission of Proofs of salary.
• Emission of employment actions.
• Important contacts with Pension Operators.
• Exclusive and immediate attention to each client.
• Support for employees queries.
• We support you when applying the Costa Rican Labor Laws.

Monthly Reports:

• Monthly close payroll.
• Deductions Report.
• Report of Salaries to the Social Security (CCSS).
• Report of Salaries to the insurance company (INS).
• Report of Salary tax.
• Reports and Accounting files.
• The accumulation of salaries:
  • 13th month and annual close.
  • Annual close of the Income Tax.

For more information about how we can help you, please Contact us.

They are a great resource to learn from and also get a different view point from people with years of experience in large companies.

Gente Gerente Interview Feb 24, 2010:

Special Guest: Guillermo Quesada, General Manager Bancredito.

Topic: Antecedents of Bancredito and business projections.

This audio is recorded is Spanish and all rights are reserved.

Gente Gerente Interview Feb 17, 2010:

Special Guest: Osvaldo Nieto, Chairman for Latin America and President for Brazil, Baker Tilly Internacional.

Topic: Doing Business in the Region and the position of Brazil in Latin America.

This audio is recorded is Spanish and all rights are reserved.

Gente Gerente Interview Feb 10, 2010:

Special Guest: Maria Luisa Gonzalez, HR Manager, Hewlett Packard Costa Rica.

Topic: The view of HR of Hewlett Packard and Y Generation

This audio is recorded is Spanish and all rights are reserved.

Gente Gerente Interview Feb 3, 2010:

Special Guest: Erick Guillen, General Manager, Consorcio de Informacion y Seguridad S.A. (CIS)

Topic: Security Companies and Public Security

This audio is recorded is Spanish and all rights are reserved.

Gente Gerente Interview Jan 27, 2010:

Special Guest: Federico Font, General Manager, Font Corporation

Topic: Challenges for Family Businesses, threats and opportunities

This audio is recorded is Spanish and all rights are reserved.

Gente Gerente Interview Jan 20, 2010:

Special Guest: Adrian Torrealba, Tax Advisor

Topic: Proposes for fiscal reforms from the three strongest politic forces

This audio is recorded is Spanish and all rights are reserved.

Gente Gerente Interview Jan 13, 2010:

Special Guest: Jorge Hernandez, expert in Political Communication

Topic: What is Marketing in politics?

This audio is recorded is Spanish and all rights are reserved.

Gente Gerente Interview Jan 6, 2010:

Special Guest: Luis Diego Ceciliano, Risk Consulting Manager, ICS Consultores S.A.

Topic: Internal Audit and the importance of Risk Control

This audio is recorded is Spanish and all rights are reserved.

For more information on Gente Gerente or to join us, please Contact us at gentegerente@icsconsultores.com.

If you any questions or concerns please feel free to Contact us.

No boundaries  limit us: We provide both local and regional expertise in tax and legal aspects of payroll, consultancy on compliance with tax obligations, deductions, tax registration, expenses and income, revise your draft statements and evaluate all manners of consultation on taxation of all Latin American Countries.

In addition, we offer a service that can be very useful for parent companies: if you are looking to play a supervisory role to a sister company or outsourced department, with ICS we have a control panel by where you can monitor the goings on within your company and also know if all your companies throughout Latin America are up to date with their tax and labor obligations.  This is very useful for multinational companies wanting a big brother approach to managing by numbers.

Does your company have a presence in several Latin American countries? Do you waste time looking for advisors in each country to evaluate your tax questions? Whatever your problem, we can help.  Our daily practice is to give a single response that involves all countries where you have a presence. We do not waste your time giving you individual country responses, you only receive a unified and consistent response, which will generate an added value to your company, allowing you to deal with what really matters,  your business.

We offer to be your point of contact throughout Latin America: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.

Our team of advisers, consists of lawyers and accountants with a vast experience in their related field.  The team has an objective every time it advises:  to ask and ask and ask until we find the best solution to your problem. We give you the best various options, both creative and innovative, but above all responsible.

No boundaries  limit us: We provide both local and regional expertise in tax and legal aspects of payroll, consultancy on compliance with tax obligations, deductions, tax registration, expenses and income, revise your draft statements and evaluate all manners of consultation on taxation of all latin American Countries.

Tax Diagnosis:

The first question to ask yourself when thinking about a Tax Diagnosis is ‘If this year you paid a large amount of taxes ask yourself the question, is my company structure beneficial to my tax burden?’.  We invite you to rethink your business and pay less taxes with ICS.

At ICS we offer an efficient, focused and high value service that allows you to make sure that your practices, accounting and finances minimize your tax liability while not breaking any laws

Tax Planning:

Our lawyers and accountants work together to find viable solutions to reduce our clients fiscal burden both for your Costa Rica tax plan, your Latin American tax plan and your International tax plan . From year end tax returns to corporate audits, we can help with every aspect of your tax needs. We have strategic relationships throughout the United States and Europe that help facilitate every aspect of our clients international tax planning.  Our challenge is to reduce your taxes by inviting you to rethink your business

Tax Litigation:

For the past 17 years ICS Consultores has been successfully representing companies throughout Latin America on a variety of tax complications.   At ICS we have a team of enthusiastic and dedicated individuals who as a firm make up one of Latin America’s most effective Tax Litigation Teams with years of success.  Many of the team have both worked for the Government Revenue Services in which they now litigate and this allows us to have a competitive advantage that we pass along to your company.

Below are some of these professionals that make up ICS, however with a vast Newtork of Professionals throughout Latin America it would be hard to list the all:

Francisco Villalobos – Senior International Tax Attorney

Tax attorney with technical expertise in U.S. and Europe.  Major Tax Payers’ legal advisor and tax litigator.  Served as Tax Manager of Intel for Latin America and as external advisor on tax reform matters for the Government of Costa Rica.   Served as advisor for the Secretary  of Finance on tax administration and co-writer of the reform of the major tax laws of Costa Rica.

Professor of  Tax Law at the  Law School of the University of Costa Rica, columnist for La República on business and Government.  Host of radio show “Management by Managers” on 97.5 Costa Rica.

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Luis Diego Ceciliano – Internal Auditor, Risk Management Consultant and Accounting Consultant

Masters in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance. Graduate in Public Accounting, Certified Public Accountant, incorporated Private Accountant and member of the  Internal Auditors Institute of Costa Rica and the Global Internal Auditors Institute.

Experience as Internal Auditor, Risk Management Consultant and Accounting Consultant for international firms such as Deloitte and Coopers & Lybrand. Served as Internal Auditor for “Grupo Q Costa Rica” and held management and accounting positions for private entities classified as major tax payers.

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Jacqui Schwarts – Tax Attorney

Tax Attorney and Business MBA from the University of Uruguay.  Previous experience in handling international clients operating in South and North America. She now directs the international consulting tax practice of ICS.

Jacqui has extensive knowledge of the Latin American and North American tax system that allows her to advise companies working within the region on how to best structure and account for their taxes while complying with tax requirements in the regions.

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Sergio Rojas - Payroll and Proccesses Specialist

Sergio has 24 years experience in development, implementation and maintenance of processes and payroll systems.

He has worked for companies such as Phillip Morris, Kraft Foods and many other of the top 100 companies operationg here in Costa Rica.  On average Sergio has been handling payroll of over 2,500 employees for numerous organisations.

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Jorge Guardia – Independent Analyst

Jorge is by profession an Economist, with qualifications from the London School of Economics and Harvard Business School. Former president of the Central Bank of Costa Rica and a top official for the IMF.

Currently Jorge is an independent analyst to ICS and Professor of Economics at the University of Costa Rica.

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Marco Aguilar - Senior Accountant

Marco graduated in Business Administration with an Emphasis in Banking and Accounting and then went on to become an Incorporated Private Accountant.

He has a vast experience as a Senior Accountant and General Accountant in several multi-national companies such as Oracle, SITA, MicroTechnologies and Continental AG.  During this time he has lead his teams through different projects which included starting-up processes such as; re-building accounting processes; cost accounting departments; regional consolidation and reconciliation of local accounting vs US GAAP; coordination and training of Shared Service Centers staff in several countries.

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If you need immediate assistance please call us on (+506) 2528-3300

Remember that when you contact ICS you not only connect with us but you connect our network of 25,000 International business professionals as part of Baker Tilly International, however you will only ever have 1 point of contact, and that is us.

Our experience within tax litigation enables us to thoroughly evaluate the merits of complex tax issues and develop creative arguments in defense of proposed adjustments.  We generally find that a well thought out and detailed written argument in which facts are developed will lead to a quick resolution.

Contact us today to find out how we can help you in your tax diagnosis, plan and litigation.

At ICS we offer an efficient, focused and high value service that allows you to make sure that your practices, accounting and finances minimize your tax liability while not breaking any laws.

The most important stage in the ICS tax process is the diagnosis. At ICS we believe:

‘I believe 90% of the time of a consultant should be utilized in finding the problem,  the issue, the matter. Only then, the right responses come across.’  Francisco Villalobos, Founder and CEO of ICS Consultores

Like doctors, we take the diagnosis phase of the process to be the most important so that we make sure your risk is minimized and the right course of action is taken.

In the diagnosis phase we analyze in depth, many areas of your company to make sure we fully understand your business but also your requirements, only then can we fully understand you.  Below is a brief outline of what we look at:

• Tax Compliance
• Labor Compliance
• Corporate Governance
• Internal Audit

Above is just a brief overview, however if you would like to learn more about how ICS can help your company please do not hesitate top Contact us.