With a little more than two months left to this administration’s four-year term, Treasury Secretary Juan Zaragoza said there are projects he would have liked to have seen through, including a reclassification of agency employees to improve their salaries.
The government of Puerto Rico is counting on the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico to fight for the permanence of Law 154, passed in October 2010 as an amendment to Puerto Rico’s Internal Revenue Code that places an excise tax on sales generated by local subsidiaries to their international parent companies.
Treasury Secretary Juan Zaragoza will ask the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico to place the agency he heads under receivership, to prevent anyone — including himself — from signing off on significant material transactions that could affect the government’s coffers.
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