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2024 Election Data Brief: The Act 22 Donors STILL Influencing Puerto Rico's Elections
Our new 2024 analysis shows politicians in the highest offices continued to receive donations from Act 22 beneficiaries this year, including: current Governor Pedro Pierluisi, current Resident Commissioner (and 2024 candidate for Governor) Jenniffer González-Colón, leaders in the Puerto Rican House of Representatives and mayors in towns with the highest number of Act 22 holders–such as San Juan and Dorado.
Pain & Profit: The Act 22 Donors Influencing Puerto Rico's Elections
Our election disclosure analysis reveals that Act 22 beneficiaries donated over one million dollars dispersed between twenty-one different Puerto Rican elected officials in the last decade, in addition to direct donations to the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) and the New Progressive Party (PNP), the two leading political parties on the island.
Pain & Profit: The Act 22 'Charities' That Take From Puerto Rico & Give Little in Return
In an effort to attract wealthy investors to Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rican government passed the “Act to Promote the Relocation of Individual Investors to Puerto Rico” (known as Act 22 and later amended into Act 60) in 2012. Wealthy people relocating to the archipelago received an unprecedented 100% tax exemption on all income and investments.
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