Following five weeks of open calls and an extensive and competitive evaluation process, parallel18, an organization that belongs to the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust, selected 28 Puerto Rican companies that will participate on the fourth generation of the local pre-acceleration program pre18, starting Jan. 24, 2022. With the slogan “Sácala del parque” […]
The Puerto Rico Treasury Department confirmed that despite the need of more staff, close to 1.2 million income tax returns for individuals and corporations for taxable year 2020 have been processed, which represents 99% of the total returns filed. Of that total, about 1 million have received their refunds. “We have quickly disbursed close to […]
The Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC, in Spanish) and the U.S. Small Business Administration are urging small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and nonprofits to apply for the Economic Damage Disaster Loan if their operations have been hit by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic before the Dec. 31 deadline. On Oct. 8, the […]