The offensive launched by the Puerto Rico Treasury Department in November to crack down on retailers that collected sales and use tax revenue, but failed to remit it to the agency has unleashed a string of bankruptcy filings by those businesses, which appear to have turned to the court for protection.
Lawmakers and members of the executive branch gathered at the Puerto Rico Convention Center today are said to be considering six different scenarios that would combine a hybrid structure of a sales and use tax and a general excise tax to shore up the government’s finances.
Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla announced Wednesday the restructuring of the Puerto Rico Treasury Department, as well as offered details of the administration’s proposed tax reform expounded in a 1,400-page bill submitted at the Legislature late in the day.
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