With my girlfriend cooking all of the time, I noticed that Puerto Rico mainly just sells brown eggs at the grocery stores.  In the States (or where I am from), I mostly just see white eggs.  Does it matter?  I got curious to see if there was a difference.  A quick search on Google took me to a Yahoo page explaining that… Continue reading

I was watching Bill Maher’s “Real Time” this past weekend that I had Tivo’d. He has a segment where he goes to an area and interviews them on who they are going to vote for and teases them on their reasoning. This episode he was interviewing Hispanics in a “Mexican area” I believe in California. Everyone… Continue reading

Here is a quick and dirty explanation on what taxes Puerto Rico residents have to pay.

Since Puerto Rico is a Commonwealth of the United States, tax laws are different. Residents of Puerto Rico don’t pay federal income taxes on Puerto Rican source income. Any income from US sources, including stocks, those who work for the Federal Government… Continue reading

Unfortunately when importing a car to Puerto Rico it can be pretty expensive. Import taxes vary on the car. I am not sure the percentage that is used, and it is my understanding that there is a minimum of $750. I did find a great page from the Departamento de Haceienda (which is the Puerto… Continue reading

Sorry for the site being so slow lately.  I am already having problems with my host.  It looks like the rest of the world who can’t afford a good host is as well.

Anyway they are supposed to be working on the issue.  If you want to keep up with whats happening, here is the post about the crappy service

Those of you that are Federal Employees working in Puerto Rico might be happy to know that COLA (Cost of Living Allowance) should be going up very soon! On January 3rd 2008, OPM (Office of Personnel Management) proposed that the COLA be raised from 10.5% to 13%. So the ball is currently in motion.