Costa Rica vs Singapore: Paying taxes: Time to obtain VAT refund (weeks) (DB17-20 methodology)
Costa Rica
61.45
in 2019
Singapore
65.5
in 2019
Costa Rica rank
52nd
Singapore rank
50th
Paying taxes: Time to obtain VAT refund (weeks) (DB17-20 methodology) over time
- Costa Rica
- Singapore
How they compare
Singapore currently reports 65.5 against 61.45 in Costa Rica, a difference of 4.05.
That makes Singapore's figure about 1.1 times Costa Rica's.
Across all 5 years both countries report, Singapore has been ahead every year.
Costa Rica ranks 52nd and Singapore ranks 50th of 157 countries.
Singapore has averaged higher in every one of the 1 decades both report.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher paying taxes: time to obtain vat refund (weeks) (db17-20 methodology), Costa Rica or Singapore?
- Singapore, at 65.5 against 61.45 in Costa Rica as of 2019.
- What is the difference in paying taxes: time to obtain vat refund (weeks) (db17-20 methodology) between Costa Rica and Singapore?
- 4.05, with Singapore ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Costa Rica and Singapore?
- 5 years are reported by both, from 2015 to 2019.
- How do Costa Rica and Singapore rank globally for paying taxes: time to obtain vat refund (weeks) (db17-20 methodology)?
- Costa Rica ranks 52nd and Singapore ranks 50th of 157 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- The World Bank, published as Paying taxes: Time to obtain VAT refund (weeks) (DB17-20 methodology) - Score. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The score for time to obtain VAT refund benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator. The score is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance, and is computed based on the methodology in the DB17-20 studies.