Worried about the potentially harmful effects that eliminating the business-to-business sales tax exemption would have on their businesses, retail executives recently concluded that if the Treasury Department want to increase its revenues, it needs to “correct and streamline” the process of capturing the sales and use tax to collect from evaders.
Criticism to the bill proposing amendments to Puerto Rico’s sales and use tax code poured in Thursday from many of the island’s most prominent professional organizations, which essentially agreed that eliminating certain exemptions would have a “devastating” effect on businesses and consumers.
The Economic Development Bank, the Family Department's Socio-Economic Development Administration, known as ADSEF, the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce (CofC) and the United Retailers Association (CUD) announced Thursday the signing of a pair of agreements to launch a job promotion plan for low-income residents.