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Costa Rican politics in 2016 were dominated by the debate and eventual failure of a tax reform proposed by the Solís administration. This failure is emblematic of a wider political crisis marked by growing levels of partisan fragmentation and polarization that have made it increasingly difficult to forge cross-partisan agreements on major national policy issues. Elections scheduled for February 2018 are expected to dominate politics during 2017.