Saying the Commonwealth failed to justify its reasons for not doing so, the San Juan Superior Court on Tuesday ordered the Puerto Rico Treasury Department to make public the report produced by KPMG Accounting Services that is being used to shape the upcoming tax reform.
Aiming to encourage work in the formal economy while neutralizing regressive consumption taxes, the Center for a New Economy recently commissioned the Urban Institute in Washington D.C. to conduct a study that proposes a new work credit focused on working families with children making between $7,500 and $25,000.
On January 31, 2011, Puerto Rico enacted a new Internal Revenue Code (the “2011 Code”), which reformed the island's tax system, containing significant changes for individual and corporate taxpayers.
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