The Puerto Rico Urgent Interest Fund Corporation (also known as the Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation) —Spanish: ''Corporación del Fondo de Interés Apremiante'' (COFINA)— is a government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico that issues

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s and uses other financing mechanisms to pay and refinance the

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. The Corporation is a

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of the

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and was created by Law No. 291 of 2006. Bonds issued by COFINA are called

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Background

The Corporation receives half of the state government portion of the

Puerto Rico Sales and Use Tax Taxation in Puerto Rico consists of taxes paid to the United States federal government and taxes paid to the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Payment of taxes to the federal government, both personal and corporate, is done through ...

(SUT) (2.75%, or half of the out of the state government’s portion of 6%) and is authorized to use such portion pay or finance, in whole or in part, or fund: # certain debt obligations of the

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. As an independent corporation, COFINA has the same powers, rights and faculties as the Puerto Rico Government Development Bank under its Constitutional Charter. Puerto-rico-sales-and-use-tax-components

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References

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