Property taxes

Texas lawmakers are pushing for legislation to cap local property tax increases, with implications for bond ratings across the state.

An $8.4 billion bounty in state revenue puts Texas in its best position in years to resolve school funding woes.

Rating agencies don't expect major impacts to state and local governments from the troubled California utility's pending bankruptcy.

SALT deduction limitations have heightened sensitivity to the property tax, an issue both complicated and visceral. Paul Burton and John Hallacy host.

S&P raised the Indiana capital's ad valorem tax-secured bonds to AA-plus.

An initiative that would create a separate property tax assessment system for non-residential properties qualified for the 2020 ballot.

Thursday is the deadline for sending comments to the IRS on its proposal to prevent taxpayers from avoiding the $10,000 federal cap on state and local tax deductions that Congress enacted last December.

The report found that 61% of the 341 finance officers who participated in the survey anticipate negative future impacts on their city's financial health from the termination of advance refundings, while 35% said they already have seen negative impacts.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sent letters to the Internal Revenue Service and to Treasury's Inspector General for Tax Administration threatening litigation and and asking for a probe of alleged undue political interference.

The bill would make permanent the lower tax rates for individuals and small businesses and the $10,000 federal cap on state and local tax deductions.