Puerto Rico’s unemployment rate reached 15.2 percent in January, up slightly from the 14.6 percent on record for the same month in 2013, but down marginally from the 15.4 percent the Department of Labor and Human Resources confirmed for December 2013.
An Individual Retirement Account is one of very few deductions that remained available in the income tax return after the approval of the new Internal Revenue Code.
The Corporation for the Supervision and Insurance of Puerto Rico Cooperatives, known as COSSEC in Spanish, announced Monday the implementation of a temporary rule applicable to the distribution of surplus revenue — a statute designed to ensure the health and financial soundness of the island’s credit unions in the face of credit rating changes.
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