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Two issuers, the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority and the Village of Franklin Park, Illinois, have disclosed in the past week that they’re under audit by the Internal Revenue Service.

Payments under the opioid settlement are too short-lived to securitize and local government participation remains unclear.

Tax-exempt bonds are a very different area of the law.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Tax Exempt Bond program will not be significantly overhauled as part of the agency’s restructuring and modernization efforts, officials say, but there are a few changes to forms and procedures that bear paying attention to.

The position has been held by Rebecca Olsen since 2018.

A recent panel discussion shed some light on how issuers and borrowers should be disclosing climate related information.

One size does not fit all.

States so far have taken the lead in mileage-based user fee programs, which would now be taken up on the federal level for the first time.

The pandemic exposed weaknesses in the old ways of doing things, he said during a virtual Citizens Budget Commission awards presentation in New York.

A fresh debate on the debt ceiling could come as soon as December, as Congress also faces deadlines on surface transportation and stopgap government funding.

Another correctional facility avoids a private business use tax penalty.

The National Association of Bond Lawyers' new president intends to focus the group's efforts and provide support for infrastructure legislation in Washington.

Officials from multiple regulators came together on Thursday for a detailed discussion about municipal advisory regulation.

Erring on the side of caution and good documentation are key to managing conflicts of interest

A deal to lift the debt ceiling through November would buy Congress time to hammer out Democratic agreement on the Build Back Better plan.

The proposed guidance does not indicate any particular problems with compliance, the MSRB said.

Smaller issuers like rural hospitals and charities are often blocked from issuing bank-qualified debt under current rules, which would change under a reconciliation bill provision.

FINRA said the firm failed to detect and resolve short positions in municipal securities

Per-pupil revenues and long-term debt spending are rising across the country

Tax-exempt advance refundings emerge as the top priority for muni market participants as Congress debates reconciliation budget measure.