What should I be paying?

I'm just an ordinary guy, from Europe and retired with my Colombian wife in Colombia. For reasons of tax liabilities in Europe I need to produce tax declarations from my place of residence, Colombia.

Thus, apparently unlike most of you I regularly submit a truthful declaration of my incomes and patrimony here in Colombia even though the amounts I am concerned with attract no local tax liabilities. As my Spanish is not so good and everything to do with Colombian tax legislation seems impossible I USE A LOCAL TAX ACCOUNTANT.

This year he upped his fee to 600,000 pesos for producing 2 tax declarations, one for me and one for my wife, both essentially identical.

What do you think about the fees? Is this a rip-off?

Don't bother to tell me I could do it for myself for nothing....I am numerically illiterate.

By fecherklyn on Nov 27, 2007, 17:16 in Friendly Talkzone.

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Gator says on Nov 27, 2007, 18:26: That's about what we pay. If you aren't happy check around and ask. Lots of contadores públicos around looking for business. If you are comfortable with yours stick with him. "Brevior Sltare Cum Deformibus Mulieribus Est Vita!" .

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