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Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday addressed confusion among issuers, broker-dealers and investors regarding disclosure.

The Internal Revenue Service has told bond attorneys that the law doesn’t explicitly say that veterans are a special needs population under the rules for the tax-exemption for multifamily private activity bonds.

Massachusetts Democrat Richard Neal, friendly to the muni market, is likely to chair the critical Ways and Means Committee.

The IRS announcement of an advisory committee shuffle has some lawyers nervous.

The memo appears to respond to a March 29 written request by the National Association of Bond Lawyers to Christie Jacobs, director of the IRS Indian Tribal Governments/Tax Exempt Bonds Office to clarify the new law.

The pilot program began in May, but was not officially announced by the IRS until last week.

A muni advisor facing an enforcement action could use a Supreme Court decision on gambling as a defense, a bond lawyer says.

SEC and MSRB officials responded to the concerns and frustrations of bond lawyers who were meeting in Chicago.

Incoming NABL president Dee Wisor wants the group to be more active in Washington.

The top executives of FINRA, the MSRB, and some industry groups received total compensation of more than $1 million, The Bond Buyer’s latest survey of compensation levels at 23 municipal market-related groups shows.