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The new tax law that terminated advance refundings of bonds after Dec. 31, 2017, does not specify that only "tax exempt" refundings are prohibited.

The proposal would allow taxpayers to have access to their IRS audit case file prior to dispute resolution hearings, ending the requirement to file requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

Former broker Deborah Kelley could end up paying close to half a million dollars in fines, penalties, and restitution for her role in defrauding the New York State Common Retirement Fund.

Bond Dealers of America urges the House Ways and Means Committee to take up and pass a bill that would restore advance refunding bonds according to prior law.

The National Association of State Treasurers is using infrastructure finance as an argument to urge lawmakers to pass legislation reclassifying some munis as high-quality liquid assets.

The municipal market appears to be shifting away from its traditional retail-dominated status, which has implications for regulatory policy that's largely aimed at protecting the retail investor.

The report illustrates how federal, state and local laws must be changed if the Supreme Court rules in favor of South Dakota and against Wayfair Inc. in an online sales tax case.

Some of the oomph for multifamily housing bonds comes from additional federal funding for public housing agencies which are partners in these bond deals while the remainder comes from programmatic changes in the law.

City and state groups credited Congress for supporting programs the administration wanted zeroed out, including the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Grants program, which will get $2.6 billion.

Congress' deficit-raising actions have made it more likely that munis would be targeted for cuts to raise revenues in infrastructure or other future bond-related legislation.

Vendors, dealers, and regulators say that the integration of sometimes subjective markup disclosure rule requirements into existing broker-dealer systems is proving to be a heavy lift for the industry.

With the deep cut in the corporate tax rate and rising interest rate, banks are rethinking their investments in municipal securities.

The bill has a $63 billion in spending for non-defense discretionary programs in the 2018 fiscal year ending Sept. 30, including $10 billion more for infrastructure programs.

Mnuchin will hand-deliver documents related to the loan in his first visit to the territory as a public official, he said.

The project would get money from Amtrak, capital investment and other accounts under the omnibus spending bill, the details of which are expected to be released later today .

A newly-published MSRB document is aimed at helping to reign in what the SEC has described as fairly widespread violations occurring at smaller municipal advisory firms.

President Trump has threatened to veto this long-delayed omnibus if it contains a $900 million appropriation for Gateway that the House approved in September as part of a spending bill for the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Departments.

Some worry that MSRB's late release of an updated set of FAQs on markup disclosure requirements will hinder their meeting the May 14 effective date.

The collapse of the pedestrian bridge in Florida and resulting focus on its federal funding shouldn't impact the TIGER program, transit officials said.

Transit officials from across the nation meeting here this week said the president's proposed budget cuts don't track with his rhetoric on infrastructure.