CNE – Centro Para Una Nueva Economía – Center for a New Economy
Non-profit, economic research and policy development organization
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The Acevedo Vil谩 administration has recently introduced a bill (HR 1579) to impose an additional temporary tax of 4 percent on corporations and partnerships that provide financial services in Puerto Rico. In our view, the proponents of the tax have ignored a basic tenet of economics, namely, that people, including corporations, respond to incentives.
Lo bueno de los huracanes es que te dan tiempo para prepararte. No se han juntado completamente dos nubes en las cosas de 脕frica cuando ya en Puerto Rico estamos comprando salchichas y llenando la ba帽era de agua. Ya quisieran los que sufren de terremotos y tornados tener una semana para contemplar si hacerle caso o no.
A significant segment of the Puerto Rican population, 36%, is unbanked. These households tend to be extremely poor, with an average income of $8,472, and headed by older single unemployed females with a less than average education. Close to 50% of all unbanked households are located in the greater San Juan area. This lack of financial access precludes unbanked households from enjoying benefits associated with asset accumulation which exist in addition to the benefits conferred by the ability to defer consumption and creates a major obstacle for the implementation of asset-based policies to reduce poverty in Puerto Rico.
