Medical device makers face another tax fight in Puerto Rico

February 1, 2013 by MassDevice staff

Puerto Rico officials backed down from a reduction in the country's medical device tax, planning instead to extend a temporary increase for another year.

The 4% tax, originally imposed in 2010, was supposed to shrink each year and drop to 1% in 2016. Treasury officials instead announced plans to seek an extension of the 4% tax rate through 2017, a move that U.S. medical device lobby group AdvaMed "strongly opposes."

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