Associations Administrating Communal Aqueduct and Sewer Systems (Asadas) are exempted from the payment of stamps and fees, value-added tax, and real property tax. Likewise, they are exempted from any payment for environmental canon (canon ambiental) and discharge canon (canon de vertidos), administered by the Ministry of Environment and Energy (Minae), as well as from the regulatory canon (canon de regulación) by the Regulatory Authority for Public Services (Aresep) and from any selective consumption tax and taxes on the importation of vehicles, equipment, and work materials.
It takes effect upon its publication.
Done at the Presidency of the Republic, San José, on the fifteenth day of December of the year two thousand twenty-one.