Naomi Jagoda

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., hopes that one day, parents will give their kids infrastructure bonds for the holidays.

Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y. and Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, have introduced identical bills that would make permanent and enhance the Qualified Zone Academy Bond program.

Bonds issued to finance student loans will not become taxable if their issuer takes action to cease being a qualified scholarship funding corporation, the Internal Revenue Service said.

A report from the Government Accountability Office suggested three approaches to delegating federal borrowing authority that would help to avoid the disruption in financial markets caused by impasses over the debt ceiling.

Triple-A rated Maryland is planning to competitively sell $500 million of general obligation bonds on July 16.

Some municipal bond experts in Washington were pleased to see that the reports from Senate Finance Committee’s tax reform working groups, released Wednesday, did not recommend that municipal bonds be taxed.

Move America Bonds should be more attractive to many members of Congress than Build America Bonds, Sen. Ron Wyden said.

John Hoeven, a Republican Senator and former governor of North Dakota, is keeping states' needs in mind with his bill to create Move America Bonds.

The District of Columbia and several authorities serving the Washington metropolitan area will host a conference for institutional investors in September, city officials said Monday.

The Government Finance Officers Association is encouraging its members to urge their Congress members to support legislation that would allow states to require out-of-state online retailers to collect their sales taxes.

Reps. Randy Hultgren, R-Ill., and Richard Neal, D- Mass., have introduced legislation that would increase the number of projects that could be financed by qualified small issue manufacturing bonds.

The Senate Finance Committee's tax reform working groups will not be submitting reports to the committee's leaders by the end of the month, as had been expected.

Some market participants want the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service to clarify their new proposed issue price rules, particularly regarding certifications that underwriters would make under the proposal.

The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service released new proposed rules on the definition of issue price to allow issuers to rely on the initial offering price under certain circumstances and provide a narrower definition of an underwriter.

A technical advice memorandum concluding that the Village Center Community Development District in Florida was not a political subdivision that could issue tax-exempt bonds will not apply retroactively, the Internal Revenue Service chief counsel’s office said.

The National Association of Bond Lawyers has submitted recommendations to the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service on ways to ease and clarify the public approval requirement for private-activity bonds.

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., introduced legislation that would create a national infrastructure bank that could provide direct loans and loan guarantees to facilitate infrastructure projects of regional or national significance. The bill would also increase the national volume cap for tax-exempt private-activity bonds for qualified highway or surface freight transfer facilities to $16 billion from $15 billion.

The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service should include projects about accountable care organizations, management contracts, issue price and other topics on their 2015-2016 priority guidance plan,said the tax-exempt financing committee of the American Bar Association’s taxation section.

An advisory panel has made recommendations about how the Internal Revenue Service’s tax-exempt bond office can increase its efficiency and effectiveness in a time of dwindling resources and increased market complexity.

A bill introduced in the House on Monday by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, that would authorize states to require out-of-state online retailers to collect their sales taxes is drawing praise from state and local government and retail groups.