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Kane County's share of Regional Transportation Authority sales taxes backs up its pledge of toll revenue for the Longmeadow Parkway bridge.
November 13 -
The city in Kansas will issue sales tax and revenue bonds to subsidize about half the cost of an $80 million minor-league baseball stadium.
November 8 -
The split in our government may enhance chances of infrastructure legislation, dash hopes for Tax Cut 2.0, and leave the muni tax exemption at risk.
November 8John Hallacy Consulting LLC -
Massachusetts Democrat Richard Neal, friendly to the muni market, is likely to chair the critical Ways and Means Committee.
November 6 -
The California Budget & Policy Center says blowback from new tariffs will hit California because China is a major export market.
November 6 -
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.
November 6 -
States have reversed deterioration found last May.
November 6 -
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.
November 6 -
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.
November 5 -
School vouchers in Arizona and bond measures in Colorado are among the fiscal ballot measures Southwest voters will decide Tuesday.
November 5 -
The IRS announcement of an advisory committee shuffle has some lawyers nervous.
November 2 -
Most state and local governments are concerned the ceiling will make it harder to raise taxes to pay for public services and infrastructure.
November 1 -
S&P Global Ratings cut Build Illinois bonds after changing its criteria; the downgrade mirrors a Fitch Ratings action in May.
October 31 -
The backloaded maturity schedule of the debt brings comparisons to the city's supposedly abandoned "scoop-and-toss" practices.
October 29 -
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.
October 22John Hallacy Consulting LLC -
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.
October 19 -
With Democratic majority, Rep. Richard Neal of Massachusetts, a supporter of tax-exempt bond financing, would chair the Ways and Means committee.
October 17 -
Bids were plentiful on the competitive deals but spreads were higher in the wake of two downgrades.
October 17 -
An initiative that would create a separate property tax assessment system for non-residential properties qualified for the 2020 ballot.
October 16 -
Recently announced streamlining and rumored budget cuts and layoffs at SIFMA are causing market participants to worry about its commitment to municipal securities.
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