Tax

Port Freeport's decision to go property tax-free resulted in a revenue bond rating downgrade from S&P and raised disclosure questions.

The toll revenue bonds, subject to federal alternative minimum tax, will be issued through the Wisconsin-based Public Finance Authority.

The effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill have yet to make a dent in state and local budgets as market experts and academics look into the future with concern.

A 2024 Illinois law changing sales tax distributions has ramifications for the fiscal cliff facing Chicago-area public transit agencies.

The legislature, which returns to respond to recent floods, could also take up bills to curb local property taxes, including bills aimed at bond issuance.

The bonds, scheduled to price next month, will have JPMorgan as senior manager.

With big state incentives and tariff protection, a United Arab Emirates-based aluminum producer has pledged to build the first new U.S. smelter in decades.

Executive Director Gene Seroka said the port's downstream prospects are unclear as it deals with the "tariff whipsaw effect" from the Trump administration.

Most states have already enacted their budgets for the fiscal year as the effects of Medicaid restrictions and tax policy changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill are being analyzed and raising concern.

Markets are "tilting to a risk-off posture as participants brace for the chance of Trump tariff-sparked turbulence in the coming hours and days," said José Torres, senior economist at Interactive Brokers.

Housing advocates are celebrating the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill for the boost in Low Income Housing Tax Credits which is projected to boost the use of private activity bonds.

Market participants launched the largest lobbying effort in recent memory to protect municipal bonds and got what they wanted as the tax-exemption survived.

As the Senate-approved version of the reconciliation bill bounces back to the House, the SALT caucus that was key to its passage takes a look at SALT provision changes.

Oklahoma can continue to collect income taxes from certain Native Americans in a case that threatened to cost the state millions of dollars in tax refunds.

Yorkville, Illinois, defaulted on special district bonds for Kendall Marketplace, a shopping center that never evolved into the expected retail powerhouse.

Incoming president Lunda Asmani hopes more entry- and mid-level finance officers will join the association for training and networking.

Tardy annual financial audits could strip Texas cities of their ability to raise property tax rates under a state law that takes effect Sept. 1.

The Senate advanced the One Big Beautiful Bill Act through a procedural vote, opening the legislation for debate followed by Monday's vote-a-rama.

Working out the differences between the Senate and House budget bills might result in lawmakers reaching for ways to pay for extending tax cuts and finance new programs which could put tax-exempt munis back on the negotiating table.

Senator Joni Ernest has reintroduced the Modernizing Agricultural and Manufacturing Bonds Act, long- simmering bipartisan legislation backed by the CDFA and BDA.