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The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have released final allocation and accounting rules that bond lawyers say will help in administering public-private partnerships for transportation and joint ventures involving hospitals.
By Naomi JagodaOctober 26 -
The New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authoritys decision to withdraw its request to settle under a special voluntary closing agreement program for student-loan bond issuers has paid off.
By Naomi JagodaOctober 23 -
Under a formula released by the Internal Revenue Service Wednesday, most states are likely to have more new capacity to issue private-activity bonds in 2016 than they did this year.
By Naomi JagodaOctober 22 -
The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would prevent the federal government from defaulting on Treasury securities held by investors, but President Obama would veto it.
By Naomi JagodaOctober 21 -
If House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., becomes Speaker of the House, tax reform would become a higher priority in the chamber, tax and municipal bond experts said.
By Naomi JagodaOctober 21 -
The House is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a bill that would prevent the United States from defaulting on Treasury Securities held by investors in the event the debt limit is reached.
By Naomi JagodaOctober 20 -
The District of Columbias recent institutional investor conference is likely to lead to increased demand for its bonds, the citys chief financial officer said.
By Naomi JagodaOctober 15 -
The Treasury Department is now estimating that the extraordinary measures its been using to preserve the U.S. borrowing capacity since the debt limit was reached will be exhausted by Nov. 3 two days earlier than a previous estimate.
By Naomi JagodaOctober 15 -
A bipartisan bill offered in the House would extend the Qualified Zone Academy Bond program by providing $400 million of volume cap for the bonds in each of 2015 and 2016.
By Naomi JagodaOctober 14 -
In business tax reform it may not be proper to disallow the tax exemption for municipal bonds purchased by corporations, since the exemption is designed to benefit state and local governments, the Congressional Research Service wrote in a recently released report.
By Naomi JagodaOctober 13