The government of Puerto Rico began today, Wednesday, the second phase of sending the Economic Impact Payment for those taxpayers who filed returns for the 2018 tax year.
The governor Wanda Vázquez Garced informed, through a press release, that the disbursements to taxpayers framed in the first phase continue and announced an additional disbursement for those taxpayers who filed the 2019 return and reported their bank accounts to the Department of the Treasury.
“This first disbursement of the Economic Impact Payment of $ 1,200, in its second phase, was for taxpayers who included their bank accounts in those 2018 returns and amounts to $ 47,789,008, for a total of 33,183 citizens. Payments were also sent to 99,270 taxpayers who filed the 2019 return, for $ 157,382,388. In total, $ 205,171,396 were disbursed for 132,453 families, “said the governor.
With these payments, the disbursed amount of the Economic Impact Payment, to date, amounts to approximately $ 1,128,771,396.
Vázquez Garced reminded citizens that the various incentive payments assigned to provide relief, in the face of the impact of COVID-19, are ongoing and processes continue to be refined to expedite aid. “We keep monitoring these programs to make sure that the various grants arrive as soon as possible,” he said.
The Secretary of the Treasury, Francisco Parés AliceaFor his part, he explained that the returns corresponding to tax year 2018 were filed under the old Department program, so the process required further analysis of the data, in addition to retrieving the information and migrating it to the Uniform Internal Revenue System ( SURI), which is the new technological platform.
“These first automatic payments correspond to those forms that we managed to validate internally in our systems to ensure that the information was faithful to make the shipments,” stressed the official. “As happened with a group of taxpayers in the first phase of this program, we will soon enable the link for those taxpayers who filed the 2018 return enter their bank accounts.”
As in the first phase of disbursements, Parés Alicea reported that the process to offer bank information will not require having a SURI account, but only accessing the link enabled through pagodeimpactoeconomico.com. However, those taxpayers with username and password will be able to provide their information in their SURI accounts.
On the other hand, $ 1,005,000 from the Self-Employer Assistance Program was deposited to 1,005 own-account workers and $ 985,500 from the incentive of $ 500 for another 1,971 self-employed.
“The payments of the different grants continue to be sent and I emphasize that the phases do not end when the next one begins, but rather that they work as the different strategies that we have established progress. At the end of May, the Department will inform the instructions so that the citizens who are not obliged to file the return can receive their payments in a third phase of the distribution plan, “said the secretary.
For more information you can access pagodeimpactoeconomico.com.
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