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
Tax-exempt municipal bonds avoided a potential worst-case scenario of elimination in the House-passed budget reconciliation bill — the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The recently released tax language from the Senate Finance...more
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
Municipal tender offers have rapidly increased in volume since 2020, and 2023 is anticipated to be the highest volume year for voluntary municipal tender offers. As reported by the Bond Buyer, 2021 and 2022 each saw about $4...more
According to the IRS website, the sequester reduction rate applied to payments made to issuers of direct pay tax credit bonds in fiscal year 2020 will be 5.9 percent. This percentage will apply to all subsidy payments...more
We have already blogged about many of the direct impacts that the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act has had on the municipal bond market, such as the elimination of advance refundings for governmental bonds and the elimination of qualified...more
Only a few months ago, the public finance industry was shaken when the U.S. House of Representatives proposed to eliminate tax-exempt private activity bonds (“PABs”), despite previous assurances that tax reform would not...more
One of the key components of the recently passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is the reduction in the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017. Banks, financial institutions,...more
As we know, the President has signed what was originally titled Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the most significant overhaul to the U.S. Tax Code since 1986. The President signed the Act into law after the first of the year in order...more
The new tax reform law – the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – has been extensively reported in a variety of media outlets. Most discussions focus on the reduction in individual and corporate tax rates, the availability of deductions...more