{"id":779,"date":"2011-08-02T17:10:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T17:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unipack.net\/?p=779"},"modified":"2011-08-02T17:10:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T17:10:02","slug":"relocating-to-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unipack.net\/relocating-to-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Relocating to Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Rico is a beautiful place, but relocating a business or household there can still offer many challenges and obstacles. The main challenges come from Puerto Rico being an island in the Caribbean Sea, which means cargo, goods, and vehicles need to be transported their by either boat or aircraft. Most customers will find that transporting their goods by boat will be the most cost effective option, but for those who need to expedite their relocation, <a title=\"Unipack offers expedited transport\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unipack.net\/services-we-offer\/hawaii-alaska-puerto-rico\/puerto-rico-relocation\">Unipack offers expedited transport <\/a>through aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rico is a United States territory, so many of the laws and regulations are the same as in the continental states. Movers will find that things like voting and driving a vehicle are nearly identical to the systems found in states like California and New York. Puerto Rico does have it&#8217;s own tax system, but it is based on the U.S. Tax system. There is a sales tax of 5.5% and local municipalities have the option of adding up to an additional 1.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Movers also need to be aware that Puerto Rico can impose taxes on goods entering the territory. Merchandise or articles arriving from the U.S. to be be sold, consumed, given away, or remain in Puerto Rico are subject to a 6.6% Puerto Rico excise tax that is calculated from the commercial invoice value. This is payable upon entry to Puerto Rico. Get a <a title=\"quote\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unipack.net\/services-we-offer\/hawaii-alaska-puerto-rico\/puerto-rico-relocation\" target=\"_blank\">quote<\/a> or contact Unipack associates to find out more information on your relocation to to this wonderful territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Rico is a beautiful place, but relocating a business or household there can still offer many challenges and obstacles. The main challenges come from Puerto Rico being an island in the Caribbean Sea, which means cargo, goods, and vehicles need to be transported their by either boat or aircraft. Most customers will find that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[35,56,27,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unipack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unipack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unipack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unipack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unipack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.unipack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/www.unipack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unipack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unipack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unipack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}