- Keep Your Paws Off My Positive Arbitrage – “With Great Power Comes Some Responsibility” – Squire Patton Boggs
- 2023 SEC Municipal Securities Disclosure Conference – Voluntary Disclosure and FDTA Structured Data Present Benefits and Pose Uncertainties for Issuers and Obligated Entities: Hunton Andrews Kurth
- Legislation Creates Taxable Municipal Bonds to Boost Infrastructure Investments.
- Municipal Bond Issuers on Edge as Debt Ceiling Deadline Nears.
- Fitch Places Muni Ratings Tied to U.S. Sovereign on Rating Watch Negative.
- Marin City Apartment Complex Opponents File Suit to Block Bonds.
- And finally, I Know This Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means Redux. is brought to us this week by Harper v. Health Care Service Corporation, in which the court insisted on referring to the plaintiff as a “purported taxpayer.” Are we missing something here? Is this a term of art in the wide, wide world of tax of which we had not been aware? It had been our understanding that one is either a taxpayer or not a taxpayer. You know, binary. But we are going to take this ruling as an excuse to characterize this publication as, “a purported public finance publication of unspeakable power and influence.” That said, Your Editor has previously been referred to as “an ostensible homo sapien.” So we have that going for us, which is nice.