Enhancing Tax Abatement Transparency.
NABL: IRS Issues Final Regs on Determining AFRs for Tax-Exempt Bonds.
Hawkins Advisory: IRS Revenue Procedure 2016-25 Regarding Mortgage Revenue Bonds and Mortgage Credit Certificates.
MSRB Reminds Municipal Advisors and Dealers of the May 6, 2016 Effective Date of Amendments to Gifts Rule.
SEC Approves MSRB Rule Changes For Two-Day Settlements.
When Debt Meets Public Approval: Municipal Bond Elections in San Antonio, Texas.
MSRB Webinar: What to Expect From Your Municipal Advisor.
Concerned Citizens of Southeast Polk School Dist. v. City of Pleasant Hill, Iowa – Supreme Court of Iowa holds that City, which had consolidated urban renewal areas in order to use tax increment financing (TIF) from original renewal area across a greater area, lacked authority to extend renewal area and TIF arrangement in light of statute limiting a TIF division based upon an economic development determination to 20 years. (Why can’t we once, just once, get an “Indifferent Citizens vs. Whatever”?)
And finally, Staggering Irony of the Week is brought to you this particular week by Baker v. Wayne Cty., in which the brain trust at Wayne City elected to erect a statue of – of all things – a deer. These vermin are a sufficient pestilence to motorists while ambulatory, so how in the name of all that is cloven-hoofed was it deemed wise to carve one in stone? Yep, you know where this is going – Kelli Baker loses control of her vehicle, hits the damn things and dies. Oh, deer.

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