{"id":18,"date":"2016-01-04T21:30:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T21:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chahalassociates.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2016-01-04T21:30:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T21:30:31","slug":"why-puerto-rico-still-attracts-billionaires-despite-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chahalassociates.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/04\/why-puerto-rico-still-attracts-billionaires-despite-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Puerto Rico Still Attracts Billionaires Despite Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PRico\"For many that are native to Puerto Rico, the island’s economy is forcing them off the island and onto the main land of the United States. Puerto Rico’s economy is in a death spiral and families are losing their homes and businesses, so why do the rich continue to flock there? The answer can be summed up in two words: tax exemptions.<\/p>\n

While the middle and lower economic classes are streaming off the island, the super rich are taking advantage of tax exemptions enacted in 2012 to help the economy. Simply put, Puerto Rico are offering tax exemptions to rich Americans, so they will buy existing businesses and open new ones.<\/p>\n

These tax exemptions, which fall under the 2012 Export Services Act and the Individual Investors Act, provide non-residence investors a 3 to 4% flat income tax, zero property tax, as well as 0% tax on earnings and profits.<\/p>\n

\"PRico3\"In addition, investors can enjoy a 0% tax on dividends and interest as well as a 0 to 10% tax on long-term capital gains. When compared to tax rates of up to 20% in the United States, it can be quite the incentive for rich investors.<\/p>\n

For example, hedge fund owner John Paulson is currently investing $1.5 billion dollars in real estate on the island in the form of luxury resorts and hotels such as the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel and the St Regis Bahia Beach Resort.<\/p>\n

While Puerto Rico’s debt crisis continues to worsen, and about 200,000 residents are leaving each year, you can expect the influx of American investment money to continue for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

If you are looking for ways to lower your tax liability, call 510-222-5800<\/strong> and ask for Navjeet<\/strong>. \u00a0We help small business owners and high net worth individuals lower their taxes legally.<\/p>\n

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Chahal & Associates is a California accounting firm<\/a> with three offices in the Bay area of Northern California, Emeryville<\/a>, San Rafael<\/a> and Pinole<\/a>. \u00a0Our firm provides small business accounting<\/a> services, payroll<\/a> and a variety of tax services ranging from international tax<\/a> to IRS Problem Resolution<\/a> to simple tax preparation<\/a>. \u00a0For business owners seeking to establish a business within the United States, we also provide establishing United States Operations<\/a>, High Net Worth Immigration Planning<\/a>, Expatriate Taxes<\/a>, and Resident and Non-Resident Alien Tax Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For many that are native to Puerto Rico, the island’s economy is forcing them off the island and onto the main land of the United States. Puerto Rico’s economy is in a death spiral and families are losing their homes and businesses, so why do the rich continue to flock there? The answer can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,6,7,4],"tags":[10,11,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chahalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chahalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chahalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chahalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chahalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chahalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.chahalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chahalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chahalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chahalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}