On June 11, 2025, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) introduced S.2022, titled the Tribal Tax and Investment Reform Act of 2025 (the Bill). The bipartisan Bill, co-sponsored by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), aims to...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”) preserves the federal tax exemption for all municipal bonds, including both governmental purpose and qualified private activity bonds, which state and local governments rely on to...more
President Trump signed into law The One Big Beautiful Bill (the Bill) on July 4th, 2025, making a multitude of historic tax changes, amongst other things. Specifically, the Bill creates and expands certain tax credit programs...more
The increased interest in installing solar at affordable housing projects is not surprising given that the IRC Section 48 energy investment tax credit (ITC) could subsidize as much as 70 percent of the cost and the Inflation...more
On January 19, 2024, the House Ways and Means Committee approved the bipartisan tax legislation, “The Tax Relief For American Families and Workers Act of 2024”. Two proposed changes to Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code...more
In existence since 2000, the federal New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) incentive has provided gap financing and infusions of cash in economically distressed communities for more than two decades. However, the amount of NMTC funds...more
This article considers the constitutionality of certain provisions of proposed legislation, the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2019. One provision of the bill - apparently offered in legislative response to a...more
On Monday, the IRS will publish final utility allowance regulations for low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) properties under Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code (Code)....more