Waheed Murad

An economist with over 20-year employment history in Economic and Financial Affairs Office of Department of Treasury Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. I have experience in maintaining databases of individual and corporate income tax returns; development and use of micro-simulation models, producing short-term and long-term forecasts; and strategic planning. I have an M.A. in Economics and M.S. in Management Information Systems.

9/2006 – Present: Department of Treasury of Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

 Economic and Financial Affairs Specialist (Salary $4,020 - $6,130)

• Create, maintain, update and use micro-simulation models for individual and corporate income tax returns.
• Examples of experiments conducted with the micro-simulation models include measurement of the impact of the EITC (Earned income tax credit), CTC (Child tax credit), and relief from regressive taxes for lower income individuals and households among many others.
• Statistical and economic analysis of individual, corporate, and exempt businesses taxes using MS (Excel, Access, and SQL) and Business Intelligence software (QlikView).
• Use of appropriate software programs and tools, including statistical packages, to query process and analyze economic and financial data and their impact on General Funds of Puerto Rico.
• Coordinate and maintain databases for individual and corporate income tax returns, and General Funds.
• Combine multiple databases from a variety of sources for use in reporting, research and to support decision-making.
• Individual tax studies, including sources of income, exemptions, deductions, taxable income, income tax, tax credits, and tax payments.
• Coordination of the proposed tax reforms for the Government of Puerto Rico by KPMG, and PWC.
• Preparing briefing papers, memoranda, reports and presentations.
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Collaboration with annual Tax expenditure report for Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Economic and Financial Affairs Analyst (Salary $1,470 - $2,885)

• Supported the Assistant Secretary of Economic and Financial Affairs as coordinator of Information Systems.
• Forecast tax revenues and estimate the overall impact of tax law changes and their effects on tax collections.
• Produced studies connected to the proposed tax reform of the Government of Puerto Rico.
• Prepared economic analysis of legislative proposals related to tax revenues. 
• Assisted in preparation of economic and statistical studies of tax collection and related matters.

December 1987 - University of the Punjab – Lahore, Pakistan

B.A. Mathematics

September 1995 - The City College of The City University of New York, New York, USA

M.A. Economics

December 2004 - EDP University, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA

M.S. Management Information Systems