It has now been seven months since the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico began imposing a sales and use tax on most retail transactions. However, many key questions remain unanswered. This webinar will focus on some of the issues that are critical to those businesses who engage in business on the Island. We will focus our attention on the municipal component of the tax, addressing the question of when municipal tax should be collected, the proper tax base, and the manner in which the tax should be reported and remitted. We will also consider some of the more complex points of the Commonwealth law and how the tax applies to particular industries. Finally, we will provide some insight into upcoming legislative changes.

Charles Maniace - Senior Tax Counsel, ADP Taxware
Charles is a lawyer and a member of the Massachusetts Bar. At ADP Taxware, he is involved in monitoring the progress of the Streamlined Sales Tax Initiative and is an expert on a variety of tax topics including Sarbanes-Oxley, drop shipment transactions, and the growth of sales tax holidays. Charles holds a BS in Business Economics from Bentley College and a JD from Boston University School of Law, where he is currently a candidate for an LL.M in Taxation. Prior to joining ADP Taxware, he worked as an arbitration attorney for John Hancock Financial Services, specializing in insurance regulation and sales practices.

Raquel Quintana - Senior Tax Research Associate, ADP Taxware
Raquel has 11 years' experience in general, financial and cost accounting (audit and internal controls) and in ERP and CRM systems development and usage. She holds a BA in Cost Accounting from Caracas University College, a BA in Business Administration from Jose Maria Vargas University of Venezuela, a Master's Degree in Management from the Arthur D. Little School of Management at Boston College, and an International Certificate in Project Management at Boston University. Sheis fluent in Spanish and English.

Ramon Frias - Tax Counsel, ADP Taxware
Ramon is licensed to practice law in the Dominican Republic and is a member of the Dominican Bar Association. Ramon has a Certificate Degree from Harvard University as well as a JD from the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo. He also has written many essays about tax administration, and one of them won the first prize in the international essays contest sponsored by the Inter American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT). He also worked for more than 10 years in the Department of Revenue of the Dominican Republic where he served as Deputy Director. Frias is proficient in French and Spanish.

ADP Taxware webinars feature ten full minutes of Q&A towards the end of the program. So you'll have ample time to submit your questions to this expert panel. As always, any questions that we don't get to answer "on the air" will be answered via email in the days following the webinar.