The Puerto Rican Association of Financial Analysts will meet Thursday to discuss the island’s economic situation and projections for 2013 to 2015, group president Heidie Calero said.
Automaker Ford will kick off a new, multi-channel marketing campaign dubbed “Auto Remedio” today, through which it seeks to shows how brand-exclusive technologies featured across its vehicle lineup make life easier for drivers.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made a series of recommendations to marinas in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands that will reduce pollution, compiled in a manual the agency has written with assistance from the Puerto Rico Department of the Environment and Natural Resources, Puerto Rico SeaGrant, the Sea Grant Program of the University of the Virgin Islands and Blue Flag.
Local organizations still have a chance to participate in this year’s edition of “Puerto Rico’s Best Employers,” a distinction earned by those who excel in achieving and maintaining a balance between corporate goals and employee’s value.
The Individual Retirement Account, best known as an IRA, is one of the few options that the Puerto Rico Internal Revenue Code provides as a tax shelter mechanism for tax relief when filing the income tax return. In addition, the IRA promotes the creation of a private and individual fund for the account holder’s eventual retirement.
Ask anyone who has just returned from a trip how it went and, without fail, one of the first comments will be their impression of how they were treated in the country they visited.
Law 1 of January 31, 2011, also known as the Internal Revenue Code for a New Puerto Rico (herein the “New Code”), replaces the Internal Revenue Code of 1994, as amended. This New Code amends and adds new provisions to the previously known Section 1165, related to Puerto Rico Pensions Plans (now Section 1081.01). This article specifically refers to Chapter 8 — Trust and Successions, Subchapter A — Employees Trusts.
The core challenge we face today as educators is this: previous generations before the 70’s have been educating generations for an unknown and changing world in which uncertainty is the order of the day in job opportunities and the economy. The relevance of much what we teach expires before you get the diploma and set out to get a job.
The proposed amendments to the main public sector retirement system are as decisive as the crisis requires. However, the distribution of the burden is inappropriate because they represent little sacrifice on the part of the pensioners and a lot of sacrifice on the part of Puerto Rico's younger population.
Newspaper headlines and radio and TV news reports have become a definitive recipe for depression. As a matter of fact, I can’t watch the evening news unless I want to guarantee my usual insomnia. Furthermore, these articles and stories have made me realize that Puerto Rico has become “bizarre” country, an unforgiving “La-la land.”
A group of Puerto Rican entrepreneurs, motivated by the desire to solve their own project financing challenges, on Wednesday launched Antrocket.com, the first Hispanic crowdfunding platform.
The tax season is again upon us, and with it, as taxpayers, we begin to wonder how much tax we are going to pay. Some of you might have done some preliminary calculations based on your expected income and based on the transactions that took place during the year.
The government of Jamaica announced Tuesday that the World Bank has agreed to provide technical assistance in respect of preparing a master plan to create a Caribbean logistics hub in anticipation of completion of the Panama Canal Expansion Project in 2015.
With 15 million square feet of shopping center space, over 20 of U.S. and world-renowned retail brands and top shopping center operators, Puerto Rico remains the shopping Mecca of the Caribbean, according to leading experts participating in this year's 2013 ICSC Caribbean Conference, organized by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC).
Throughout Hato Rey’s Golden Mile, sotto voce, there is talk about an imminent amendment to Law 154 to increase taxes on foreign corporations. Under the present law, the excise tax on these corporations just declined from 4 percent in 2011, to 3.75 percent in 2012, and effective this month down further to 2.75 percent.
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