Treasury Secretary Juan Carlos Méndez confirmed Wednesday that General Fund collections for FY 2012 ending June 30 reached $8.6 billion, exceeding the government’s goals by $10 million.
The Government Development Bank turned to the bond market last week, issuing $450 million in debt in less than a day, and will repeat the action again in two weeks, when it will seek to raise another $1.1 billion, agency President Juan Carlos Batlle said Thursday.
Foreign and non-resident companies doing business in Puerto Rico accounted for 10 percent of fiscal 2011’s General Fund collections, which reached more than $8.1 billion, preliminary results offered Wednesday show.
General fund collections reached $625 million in May, representing an increase of $88 million, or 16.4 percent when compared to the same month in 2010, the Treasury Department said Monday.
Sales and use tax collections remain steady during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year, a pattern Treasury Department Secretary Jesús Méndez said is the result of several measures the administration has implemented to shore up much-needed cash for the government.
Government revenue collections totaled $746 million in March, a figure that is 10.1 percent, or $69 million over the same month the prior year, the Treasury Department said Thursday.
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