Doral Bank was on the receiving end of major blows by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Appellate Court Wednesday, just before it's time as a member of Puerto Rico’s financial community could come to an end.
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.
The tax overhaul currently being discussed at the highest levels of government, based on an analysis by KPMG Accounting Services, would shore up as much as $6 billion a year for the public coffers, based on the application of a new 16 percent goods and services tax, according to the report released Wednesday.
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