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Public Finance Municipal Bond, Disclosures and Tax Compliance Recap

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Frost Brown Todd’s (FBT) Public Finance Practice Group hosted its annual Public Finance 360° Seminar on Feb. 20, 2025. Webinar topics included a 2025 municipal bond market update, financial disclosure considerations, and tax...more

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The Possible Repeal of the Tax Exemption of Municipal Bond Interest

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You may have heard recently about proposals for Congress to remove the exclusion from gross income of interest on state and local bonds, usually referred to as “repealing the tax exemption on municipal bonds.”  This issue...more

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Your Role in Protecting Tax-Exempt Bonds During Legislative Changes

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President Trump has indicated that one of his key economic priorities is to extend the expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). However, Congress still needs to resolve disagreements on the cost and funding of...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Update on the Reconciliation Package: Municipal Bonding Priorities

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Pullman & Comley’s Public Finance tax attorneys are pleased to bring you the latest development on the budget reconciliation front as it relates to municipal bonding. Last Thursday, September 9, 2021, the House Ways and Means...more

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Checking-In: Chapter 9, Chapter 11 or Ineligible?

Last week, President Trump unveiled his proposal to fix our nation’s aging infrastructure. While the proposal lauded $1.5 trillion in new spending, it only included $200 billion in federal funding. To bridge this sizable gap,...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Final Issue Price Regulations Present Municipal Industry Challenges (and 180 Days to Overcome Them)

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The Internal Revenue Service promulgated final Issue Price Regulations under Section 148 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, that were published in the Federal Register on December 9, 2016. The new regulations...more

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IRS Allows Developer Tax Benefit of Common Improvement Advance to City

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In CCA 201537022, the IRS allowed a real estate developer to capitalize its required “advance” to the city for common infrastructure improvement costs, subject to later year adjustment to the extent the city repaid the funds....more

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FINRA Warns on Muni Shorts & Fails: Substitute Interest is Taxable

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FINRA issued its late-July Regulatory Notice 15-27 warning brokerage firms that inadvertent short positions or fail-to-delivers in municipal securities trading can create situations where the member-firm pays a customer...more

Mintz - Public Finance Viewpoints

IRS Revamps Proposed Issue Price Definition for Municipal Bonds

Treasury and IRS today announced a decision to withdraw the much-criticized portion of the notice of proposed rulemaking published in the Federal Register on September 16, 2013 (the “2013 Proposed Regulations”) related to the...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

The SEC's MCDC Initiative: Where To Go From Here

Issuers, underwriters and advisors in the municipal bond marketplace are facing unprecedented challenges from federal regulators in connection with both the issuance of bonds and ongoing post-issuance compliance. These...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Draw down bonds and date of issuance: questions remain with IRS guidance

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For many years multifamily housing apartment projects could be financed with tax-exempt drawn-down bonds and loans with all of the bonds issued pursuant to a draw-down loan being treated as part of a single issue. The date of...more

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You Don’t Have to Pay for a Post Issuance Compliance Policy…But Have You Adopted One Yet?

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A number of municipal entities have been receiving a solicitation to purchase a post-issuance debt policy and procedure manual. The advertisement suggests that having such a policy is required by the Internal Revenue Service...more

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