Act 60 export services decree compliance handled all year by a Puerto Rico CPA firm with export services experience.
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Act 60 · Export services decree

Keep your export services decree in COMPLIANCE.

Your grant is a contract with the DDEC, and it carries contractual annual obligations. The exposure is not a late fee. The grant can be revoked.

Ortiz-Méndez, CPA is a Puerto Rico CPA firm with more than 25 years working with businesses on the island and multinational companies, and extensive experience with Act 60 decrees.

  • Act 60 compliance
  • Tax & Regulatory Compliance
  • Financial statements and reporting
  • Year-round CPA support
Yanila Ortiz, Certified Public Accountant and principal of Ortiz-Méndez, CPA

Yanila Ortiz, CPAOrtiz-Méndez, CPA · Puerto Rico

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Yanila Ortiz, CPA

Ortiz-Méndez, CPA · Puerto Rico

working with businesses in Puerto Rico and multinational companies

Extensive experience with Act 60 decrees, and direct attention — when you call, you talk to the CPA, not to a queue.

  • We work from your decree, not from a template. The conditions written into your grant are the ones that bind your business, and we analyze them before anything else.
  • One firm for the whole calendar. DDEC, the Puerto Rico Treasury Department, Department of State and your municipality — kept current in the right order, not one agency at a time.
  • Accounting records that hold up. What gets reported about your exempt business is only as good as the books sitting behind it.

What we do for decree holders

An export services decree is granted once. Staying in compliance is not optional.

Four things, held all year, so the grant you were awarded stays the grant you hold.

  1. Act 60 complianceWe analyze your requirements, guide you through them, and make sure you stay in compliance all year — including the annual filing your decree obliges you to make.
  2. Tax & Regulatory ComplianceWe keep you current with your DDEC, Puerto Rico Treasury Department, Department of State and municipal filings, and compliant with Puerto Rico's requirements — in the right order, because several of them depend on one another.
  3. Financial statements and reportingAccurate and timely accounting records, in compliance with your export services decree. Books that are complete and reconciled as you go, so what gets reported about your exempt business is supported by what is actually in them.
  4. Year-round CPA supportDirect access to your CPA, not a seasonal preparer. The questions that matter most — a new line of business, a new contract, a change in how or where the work is performed — do not wait for filing season to come around.
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Why this belongs with a CPA firm

A decree is a document with conditions in it. Someone has to own them.

Compliance for an exempt business is not one filing handled once a year. It is a set of conditions written into your own grant, a set of agencies that each want something different, and a set of accounting records that has to support all of it. Those three things only stay aligned if one firm is holding them together.

Your decree, read line by line

We work from the grant you actually hold. The conditions written into it are the ones that bind your business, and they are not always the ones a general checklist would predict.

Every agency on one calendar

DDEC, the Puerto Rico Treasury Department, Department of State and your municipality. One firm sequencing all of them, rather than four conversations you have to coordinate yourself.

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Accurate, timely accounting records in compliance with your decree — prepared by a Puerto Rico CPA firm, not assembled after the fact.

Why we built this service

Getting the decree is just the beginning. Puerto Rico has its own compliance requirements—different from those in the mainland U.S. or abroad.

A grant takes months of work, and the moment it is signed, it feels finished. It isn’t. Your grant is a contract with the DDEC, and it carries obligations for every year it is in force — annual filings, requirements across several agencies, and accounting records that support what is reported about your exempt business.

One important distinction is often overlooked: Puerto Rico’s compliance requirements are not necessarily the same as those in the mainland U.S. or abroad. Rules, filings, agencies, and documentation requirements can differ, even for businesses with experience operating elsewhere.

In more than 25 years working with businesses in Puerto Rico and multinational companies, we keep seeing the same pattern. The company is real, the business is real, the decree is real — but the compliance side quietly drifts because nobody was given the decree itself to read, understand, and turn into a year-round compliance plan.

So we built the service around the whole year instead of around filing season. One CPA firm holding your decree, your filings, and your books together — and one CPA you can actually reach.

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The part that does not end at approval

An export services decree is granted once. Staying in compliance is not optional.

Your grant is a contract with the DDEC, and it carries contractual annual obligations. The exposure is not a late fee. The grant can be revoked.

So we treat your decree as a live document rather than something filed away: we analyze the requirements it puts on your business, guide you through them, and make sure you stay in compliance all year.

Book your complimentary initial consultation We contact you to set the date.

Year-round CPA support

Not a seasonal preparer. The CPA who already knows your decree.

Most of what protects an exempt business happens long before anything is due. A decision taken in the middle of the year is far cheaper to get right than to unwind afterwards — and you should not have to explain your decree from scratch every time you need an answer.

  • Your requirements, mapped to a plan. We analyze what your decree asks of your business and turn it into something your team can actually follow.
  • Books kept current, not reconstructed. Accounting records maintained as the year goes, in compliance with your export services decree.
  • A CPA you can call before you act. A new contract, a new service line, a change in how the work gets done — ask first, and the answer is cheap.
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Before you book

Questions decree holders actually ask

What does “decree compliance” actually involve?

Three things running together. The conditions written into your own grant, the filings the agencies expect from an exempt business, and accounting records able to support what is reported about it.

Handled separately they drift apart. Handled by one firm they stay aligned, which is the whole point of the service.

Do you work from my decree, or from a standard checklist?

From your decree. A grant is a document with conditions written into it, and those conditions are what bind your business — they are not always what a general checklist would predict.

Reading it is the first thing we do in the initial consultation, and it is usually where the surprises are.

Which agencies do you handle?

The DDEC, the Puerto Rico Treasury Department, the Department of State and your municipality. Several of them depend on one another, so the order matters as much as the filings do.

One firm sequencing all four is the difference between a calendar and four separate conversations you have to coordinate yourself.

I already have an accountant. Do I need a second firm?

Not necessarily, and we will tell you so directly. Plenty of decree holders come to us for a second opinion on how their compliance is structured rather than to replace anyone.

The gap we find most often is not bad accounting. It is that nobody was ever handed the decree itself to read and turn into a plan.

What do you mean by “financial statements and reporting”?

Accurate and timely accounting records, kept in compliance with your export services decree — maintained as the year goes rather than reconstructed afterwards.

Everything that gets reported about an exempt business rests on those records. If they are not ready, nothing downstream of them is either.

What does “year-round CPA support” mean in practice?

You get direct access to your CPA instead of a preparer who appears once a season.

In practice that means calling before you act, not after: a new contract, a new service line, a change in how or where the work is performed. Those are the decisions that are cheap to get right in advance and expensive to unwind later.

My compliance is behind. Is that a problem?

It is the most common situation we are called into, and it is workable. Bring what you have.

The first job is establishing where you actually stand, which is not always where you assume — and that is a far better starting point than guessing.

Our owners are not based in Puerto Rico. Can you still work with us?

Yes. We work with businesses on the island and with multinational companies, and the consultation is taken by phone or virtually, wherever you are.

What does the initial consultation cost, and what happens after I send the form?

The initial consultation is complimentary. We contact you by phone or email to set the date and time, and you can take it by phone or virtually.

If you decide to work with us afterwards, you get the scope and the price in writing before anything begins. If you would rather move now, call 787-624-1659.

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Yes. What you send through this form is used by Ortiz-Méndez, CPA only to contact you and arrange your consultation. It is not sold and it is not shared with third parties for their marketing. The details are in our Privacy Policy.

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Complimentary initial consultation

Start with a CPA reading your decree.

We go through the requirements your grant actually puts on your business, how your compliance is structured today, and what it would take to keep it that way all year. Leave your name, phone and email — we contact you to set the date.

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