Seaborne Airlines and the Puerto Rico Infrastructure Financing Authority announced Monday they have entered into an agreement to install Seaborne' s corporate logo on the 23rd floor of the exterior frontal façade of the iconic World Plaza Building in Hato Rey.
On April 1, Puerto Rico will adopt a Value Added Tax (VAT) system and the island's advertising industry will fall in line with other business sectors in paying a tax for services from which it was temporarily exempted.
Since going into effect last October, the Sales & Use Tax (SUT) on business-to-business (B2B) services has generated $26.4 million, the Puerto Rico Treasury Department reported.
Auction.com, a Ten-X company, announced Thursday the upcoming online auction of more than 100 bank-owned residential properties in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico began 2016 with 716 bankruptcy filings in January, representing a 3 percent year-over-year jump, statistics released Thursday by analyst firm Boletín de Puerto Rico show.
“Millennials,” or those people born between 1980 and 2000, represent 22 percent of Puerto Rico’s population, and represents a generation of togetherness with family, with friends, collaborating with teams to study and work.
Puerto Rico Minority Supplier Development Council (PRMSDC) and National Minority Supplier Development Council representatives announced this week the return of the “Business Opportunity Exchange 2016,” an event to exhibit and promote local businesses and certified suppliers to multi-national corporations.
Puerto Rico government officials announced Thursday the availability of the “Virtual Enterprise Management” business page located in the PR.gov website that will initially allow the business sector to enroll in the Registry of Corporations, the and the Department of Labor and Human Resources online records.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced this week the open period for accepting letters of application through the Reimbursable Services Program (RSP), which may be submitted via email until 5 p.m. EST on Feb. 29.
Banco Popular’s technology team announced Thursday three key projects to be unveiled this year: “mobile wallets,” “cardless cash access,” and the integration of its “ATH Móvil” and “Mi Banca Móvil” applications.
WASHINGTON — The prognosis for Puerto Rico’s health system is already critical and will only get worse if Congress doesn’t act fast, warned a panel of doctors and finance experts meeting on Capitol Hill this week.
The Puerto Rico Treasury Department has launched a series of embargoes on local businesses that have not been remitting collected Sales and Use Tax (“IVU”, for its Spanish acronym) to the government, nor their employees’ tax retentions.
The Ritz-Carlton, San Juan has been named as an award winner in the 2016 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hotel Rankings,” receiving a “Best Hotel in Market” award for its presence in Puerto Rico.
Former Washington, D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams, who steered the nation’s capital from financial ruin to prosperity, told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday that solving the immediate fiscal crisis, while absolutely essential, will not alone be sufficient to bring Puerto Rico back to the position of economic self-sufficiency.
In association with a local retail partner, Tiffany & Co. will open its first store in Puerto Rico in coming months at The Mall of San Juan, Nathan Strauss, director of corporate communications for the luxury jewelry store chain confirmed to News is my Business.
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