Tax

The California Budget & Policy Center says blowback from new tariffs will hit California because China is a major export market.

Structural differences insulated Chicago bonds from the worst of the impacts of S&P's new criteria while dragging down the rating of Build Illinois debt.

States have reversed deterioration found last May.

Kyle Glazier is the new Washington bureau chief of The Bond Buyer. He succeeds longtime bureau chief Lynn Hume, who has retired after more than three decades on the job.

If the workarounds states are using by creating charitable foundations as a way to pay property taxes or state and local income taxes are legal, Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone said it’s up to Congress to decide whether to end them.

School vouchers in Arizona and bond measures in Colorado are among the fiscal ballot measures Southwest voters will decide Tuesday.

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

Most state and local governments are concerned the ceiling will make it harder to raise taxes to pay for public services and infrastructure.

S&P Global Ratings cut Build Illinois bonds after changing its criteria; the downgrade mirrors a Fitch Ratings action in May.

The backloaded maturity schedule of the debt brings comparisons to the city's supposedly abandoned "scoop-and-toss" practices.

California and New York City are showing us the path forward, as they often do, in the face of the new limits on the federal deduction for state and local taxes.

A new law takes effect Nov. 1 to allow New Jersey to collect sales tax on products shipped from out of state in the wake of the Supreme Court's Wayfair ruling.

With Democratic majority, Rep. Richard Neal of Massachusetts, a supporter of tax-exempt bond financing, would chair the Ways and Means committee.

Bids were plentiful on the competitive deals but spreads were higher in the wake of two downgrades.

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

Recently announced streamlining and rumored budget cuts and layoffs at SIFMA are causing market participants to worry about its commitment to municipal securities.

County Executive Steven Bellone of Suffolk County, N.Y. is among those who have asked to speak at a Nov. 5 public hearing.

The Build Illinois bonds still carry single-A to double-A ratings, even after rating cuts tied to the state's overall fiscal woes.

Groups active in the muni market are spending millions of dollars to influence policy and elect candidates, records show.

More than 100 local governments around the state will ask their voters to approve tax measures in November.