Economy & Business

What Bad Bunny teaches us about Puerto Rican tax law

NPR | By Darian Woods,

Wailin Wong, Angel Carreras, Kate Concannon

Published March 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM CDT

Bad Bunny performs live on stage in San Juan, Puerto Rico on December 10, 2021. (Photo by RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images)

Bad Bunny's new album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS laments how Puerto Rico is changing. We look at whether tax breaks to newcomers contributed.

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Darian Woods

Darian Woods is a co-host of The Indicator from Planet Money.

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Wailin Wong

Wailin Wong is a co-host of The Indicator from Planet Money.

Angel Carreras

Angel Carreras is an assistant producer for The Indicator from Planet Money. He is a Bakersfield-raised, Cal State Long Beach graduate. He previously worked at KCRW, the NPR member station in Los Angeles. He has produced award-winning and character-driven work, with subjects that have included masked puppeteers, mutual aid groups, and community activists.

Kate Concannon

Kate Concannon is the Supervising Senior Editor at The Indicator from Planet Money. She leads this small, collaborative team of hosts, reporters and producers in making sense of crucial, but often complex and confusing, economic news in just 10 minutes a day.