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Tax administrators will consult with governors and governors, in turn, will consult with their legislatures before responding to any of several possible rulings in the case by the high court, officials said.

Officials say a long-awaited transit project reached the finish line thanks to the federal transportation grant program.

Puerto Rico was by far the largest recipient of emergency relief funding allocated by the Federal Transit Administration.

Any change to the spending flexibility among governmental units that results from the court decision is likely to be incremental, according to Fitch.

The U.S. Department of Transportation told All Aboard Florida that it now has until Dec. 31 to sell the $1.15 billion of bonds.

The past 10 years have seen major changes to the market, but analysts aren't sure they've been effective in preparing it for the next test.

The Federal Transit Administration rules will take effect on June 29 of this year.

NFMA has given awards every year since 1984 to recognize those who have contributed to its goals for the advancement of the municipal bond industry.

The Securities and Exchange Committee said its Investor Advisory Committee might made a recommendation related to enhanced municipal and corporate bond disclosure.

The MSRB's controversial commentary about selective disclosure got some support from a top SEC official on Wednesday.

Economic development and infrastructure were the most mentioned issues by mayors in their annual states of the city addresses.

The 13-year-old Real-Time Transaction Reporting System has undergone a three-year re-engineering process.

Currently at least 33 states provide 113 different tax credits that are already federally deductible.

The IRS has produced dozens of "issue snapshots" for the tax-exempt bond community, charities and non-profits, retirement plans, Indian tribal governments and federal, state and local governments.

The District of Columbia was praised for tackling the funding needs for maintaining its critical infrastructure by a rating agency concerned about deferral of such maintenance by states and local governments.

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are the first states to have created charitable funds that taxpayers can contribute to in order to claim a charitable deduction in lieu of paying state and local taxes.

AASHTO Executive Director Frederick G. "Bud" Wright has spent more than 42 years working in the transportation sector.

The muni market officially got much of what it has spent years fighting for on Thursday, when President Trump signed the banking bill that makes tradable, investment grade municipal securities high-quality liquid assets under federal banking rules.

The IRS notice warns that federal law, not state law, controls how payments for federal income tax purposes are characterized.

Muni market groups got a long-awaited win when the House passed banking legislation classifying certain munis as high-quality liquid assets, even if it wasn't as big a win as hoped.