Puerto Rico Treasury Secretary Melba Acosta-Febo said today that preliminary General Fund revenue collections for May totaled $753 million, exceeding collections for the same month of last year by $141 million, or 23 percent, and beating estimates by $29 million.
The Puerto Rico Treasury Department has pushed back the start of collections of Sales and Use Tax (known as IVU in Spanish) for merchandise coming through the island’s ports by a month, to Aug. 1, agency officials said Monday.
Doral Financial Corp. filed a lawsuit at the San Juan Superior Court and a Writ for Certification in the Puerto Rico Supreme Court, alleging that the government illegally nullified its agreement to refund the bank nearly $230 million in tax overpayments.