Tax-exempt bonds

Debbie Mayfield cites an increasing number of fatalities where Virgin Trains operates between Miami and West Palm Beach.

In formal comments filed with the federal government and separately to GASB, municipal finance groups have given the regulators generally high marks.

Each state would be guaranteed $25 million in bonding authority each year, with an additional $1.25 billion in authority allocated among the states according to rural population.

The council suggested the VCAP program would remain in place for issuers who need a legally binding agreement, but would become the third tier of a system that would offer two simpler options.

Longtime IRS employee Allyson Belsome will serve as senior manager for the office of Tax Exempt Bonds.

Cross, who served as associate tax legislative counsel at the Office of Tax Policy until Friday, said that he resigned in order to be closer to family.

Iowa accounted for $16 million of the approximately $36.1 million in aggie bonds issued in 2017, according to a recent survey by the Council of Development Finance Agencies.

The number of trades decreased about 16% to 2.01 million from the same quarter in 2018.

California, Massachusetts and New York came closest to utilizing their volume caps for PABs in 2018, according to a recent survey by the Council of Development Finance Agencies.