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Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation (COFINA)

Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation

 

Credit Ratings

  Moody's Standard & Poor's    Fitch
P.R. Senior Sales Tax Revenue Bonds
Jul-13-2007
A2 AA-/Stable    A+
 
Moody's – August 5, 2009
Moody's – June 16, 2009
Fitch – June 8, 2009
Standard & Poor’s – May 19, 2009
Moody's – May 19, 2009
Fitch – May 18, 2009

Sales and Use Tax Data Center

Monthly Distribution of Total SUT Collections

Security

COFINA issued Puerto Rico Sales Tax Revenue Bonds to provide funds for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to repay certain debt obligations to the GDB and PFC. The bonds, issued under resolutions adopted by COFINA's board of directors will be payable from and secured by a security interest created by the Resolution in a specified portion of the newly created sales tax ("Pledged Sales Tax"). Legislation enacted in 2006 approved for the first time in Puerto Rico a sales and use tax of 5.5% for the benefit of the Commonwealth and a separate 1.5% for the benefit of municipalities of Puerto Rico. Act 91 also created a Dedicated Sales Tax Fund, to be held and owned by COFINA separate and apart from the Commonwealth's General Fund, and provided, among other things, that each fiscal year the first receipts of the Commonwealth's Sales Tax, in the amount specified in the law, be deposited in this special Dedicated Fund and applied to the payment of the Sales Tax Revenue Bonds.

Functions

The Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation (by its Spanish acronym, COFINA) is a independent instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, created by Act No. 91 of May 13, 2006, as amended, for the specific purpose of financing the payment, retirement or defeasance of certain debt obligations of the Commonwealth outstanding as of June 30, 2006, which were payable to the GDB and the Puerto Rico Public Finance Corporation (PFC) and were previously payable solely from Commonwealth budgetary appropriation. COFINA provided a definite and secure repayment mechanism of some $6.8 billion in debt that previously lacked a source of repayment.

Trustees Under the Trust Indenture:
Bank of New York

Financial Statements Audited by:
RSM ROC & Company

 

Official Statements

Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation $237,875,000
Sales Tax Revenue Bonds
Senior Series 2009C
Sales Tax Revenue Bonds
First Subordinate 2009B
Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation $4,118,153,700
Sales Tax Revenue Bonds
First Subordinate Series 2009A
Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation - $737,046,992.35
Sales Tax Revenue Bonds
Series 2008A
Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation - $2,667,603,572.60
Sales Tax Revenue Bonds
Series 2007A
Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation - $1,333,101,779.90
Sales Tax Revenue Bonds
Series 2007B
GDB Contact
Ana E. Torres
Vice President
Financing Assistant Director
General Obligations Division
Tel. (787) 722-2525 x-5807
Fax (787) 721-0540
Email: Ana.E.Torres@bgf.gobierno.pr
COFINA Contact
Fernando L. Batlle
Executive Director
Tel. (787) 722-2525 x-2036/2037
Fax (787) 723-7388
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