Throughout the first six months of 2025, proponents of tax-exempt bond financing feared that Congress might eliminate the exemption of interest on such bonds from federal income taxation in its search for spending reductions...more
Signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) contains extensive revisions to the U.S. Internal Revenue Code (Code). (For a comprehensive analysis of the bill, see Holland &...more
The United States Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”) issued an October 2018 report titled: Federal Support for Financing State and Local Transportation and Water Infrastructure (“Report”) - The CBO Report outlines the...more
On December 22, 2017, President Donald Trump signed into law the most far-reaching tax reform legislation in a generation after Congress approved a short-term spending bill on Thursday, which will keep the government funded...more
Released in February, the 2016 budget set forth by the Obama administration takes a focused stance towards the country’s growing infrastructure requirements. The 2016 budget features tax-exempt bond proposals seen in the...more
As we have noted in previous client advisories, under current law, direct pay bond subsidy payments are subject to federal budgetary sequestration through fiscal year 2024. On February 2, 2015, the Office of Management and...more
Several proposals affecting tax-exempt bonds were included in the Obama Administration's Budget for FY 2016. As usual, the overall budget proposal has immediately been declared DOA by political pundits. Nonetheless, taking...more
This week, the Obama administration released its proposed budget for the 2014 fiscal year. Notably, the budget encourages private investment in infrastructure projects through various liberalizations of the tax laws relating...more
March 2013 On March 1, 2013, $85 Billion in automatic reductions in federal spending occurred as mandated by federal law. The automatic budget cuts are known in the parlance of the Beltway as “sequestration.” For issuers of...more