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Louisiana will pre pay revenue anticipation notes due to a pick-up in revenue collections.

Municipal bonds finished steady on Thursday, according to traders, as the last big sale of the week came to market.

California localities await funds from the recently adopted state transportation funding bill.

The tax plan, which would dramatically reduce tax rates and simplify the tax system, would be paid for partly with the elimination of deductions and loopholes for the wealthy, raising fears over the tax-exemption.

Mnuchin says the administration will come out with a comprehensive tax reform plan soon and is working on broad financial reform and repealing or fixing burdensome tax rules.

Sales tax revenues are seeing noticeable declines in Texas cities near the Mexico border.

Successful St. Louis and Kansas City tax and bond measures support their credit profiles.

In the hunt for new revenue, two Southeast governors made proposals that could signal the revival of a taxing mechanism that was widespread in the pre-World War II era.

Two sets of groups send letters to lawmakers urging them to preserve the tax exempt status of municipal bonds.

States forecast sluggish personal income and sales tax growth going into fiscal 2018 budget negotiations.

D.C. is appealing the IRS determination of taxability on its bonds while a former IRS official faults the developer and bond counsel for violations of tax requirements.

George Friedlander explains why the Joint Committee on Taxation has it all wrong on munis.

As tax reform is uncertain, it's more important than ever to keep up the good fight for tax-exempt bonds.

The Baker Correctional Development Corp. is trying to get a waiver from a mandatory call and federal funds to refund bonds from tax-exempt to taxable, in the wake of an IRS finding that bonds are taxable.

The tax exempt bond office will be combined with the office of Indian tribal governments and headed by the ITG director.

The San Antonio Water System is facing its first audit by the Internal Revenue Service in years, as the IRS examines the tax-exemption on $83 million of bonds.

Bond lawyer and dealer groups are drafting revisions to bond documents for market participants to begin using by June 7 when the Internal Revenue Service’s issue price rules take effect.

The Glades Correctional Development Corp. in south-central Florida shorted its March 1 debt-service payment, the trustee said in a notice, as the date for a taxable bond exchange approaches due to an IRS ruling.

The administration wants tax reform to be passed by August, while hundreds of groups press lawmakers to preserve full muni tax exemption.

House members reintroduced a bill to modernize and ease tax law restrictions for small bond issues used to finance manufacturing facilities.