Puerto Rico's 78 towns are in line to get back the $13.62 million they lost when prescription drugs came off the municipal inventory tax, under a repayment that matches each municipality's own revenue drop rather than splitting the money evenly.^[1][2] The request is moving. In a formal letter dated November 6, 2026, the Municipal Revenue Collection Center - CRIM, the office that collects taxes on the municipalities' behalf - asked the Office of Management and Budget to carry a $13,621,558 funding request to the island's fiscal oversight board, the money that would replace what the exemption drained from town coffers.^[3][4][5] The hole traces directly to Law 78-2025, which took prescription medications out of the municipal personal property tax base by adding a subsection to Article 7.092 of the Municipal Code, Law 107-2020.^[6][7] Since the law took effect on July 27, 2025, the exemption has cut municipal revenues by the full $13,621,558.^[1][8] The policy trade was deliberate: prescription medicines already ride exempt from the sales and use tax, community pharmacies draw 90% of their revenue from prescription sales, and the inventory tax had discouraged pharmacies from keeping deep stock on shelves - which delays getting prescriptions into patients' hands.^[9][10][11] Whether the towns are made whole now rests with the fiscal oversight board.