The Secretary of the Department of Finance, Francisco Parés, was convinced today that the Internal rents service (IRS) approves plan to distribute the new $ 600 incentive over the next few days.
Today we received that draft with comments from the IRS and our engineering team is already reviewing it. I have not determined that there is anything that will cause an even greater delay with its approval … In essence, the IRS accepted much of the content of our concept, ‘Parés said via a virtual broadcast.
For his part, Ángel Pantoja, undersecretary to the Treasury Department, indicated that he hopes to distribute the $ 600 stimulus measure by Feb. 15, ahead of the start of the new tax cycle. “I don’t see any further delay in their approval,” said Pantoja.
While Roxana Santiago, Assistant Secretary of Internal Revenue, echoed the officials’ statements, stating that “we are a matter of days” from the approval of the plan to distribute the $ 600.
The agency filed the distribution plan with the federal treasury on December 28, 2020 after Congress approved a new economic stimulus package in light of the crisis triggered by the US pandemic. COVID-19.