Tax-Exempt Bonds

Proposed 2014 Budget Encourages Private Investment in Infrastructure

by Frederic Ballard, Jr., Scott Cockerham, Charles Henck | Ballard Spahr LLP on 4/15/2013

This week, the Obama administration released its proposed budget for the 2014 fiscal year. Notably, the budget encourages private investment in infrastructure projects through various liberalizations of the tax laws relating...more

Corporate & Tax E-Note - March 28, 2013

by Edward Brown, Benjamin Coulter, Kevin Doherty, C. Logan Hinkle, Mignon Lunsford, Debra Lee Mackey | Burr & Forman on 4/3/2013

In This Issue: - SEC Yet to Release Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act Guidelines - IRS Crackdown on Contract Workers Has Small Businesses Concerned - Accelerated Filers Found to be Filing More Restatements -...more

Investing In Georgia: Economic Development Newsletter - March 2013

by King & Spalding on 4/1/2013

Welcome to King & Spalding's economic development news bulletin, Investing in Georgia. In this edition, you will find: - A report regarding the ongoing battle by state and local officials to preserve access to the...more

Sequestration to Reduce Government Payments to Issuers of Certain Qualifying Bonds

by Dickinson Wright on 3/27/2013

March 2013 On March 1, 2013, $85 Billion in automatic reductions in federal spending occurred as mandated by federal law. The automatic budget cuts are known in the parlance of the Beltway as “sequestration.” For issuers of...more

Water and Wastewater Projects: Financing with Tax-Exempt Bonds

by Devin Brennan, Stephen Spitz | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 3/27/2013

Introduction - Managers of water and wastewater utilities face complex financial challenges. The purpose of this guidebook is to provide an overview of issues relating to the financing of water and wastewater projects...more

Five Things To Know When Contemplating the Issuance of Municipal Debt

by Timothy J. Horstmann, Donna Kreiser | McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 3/22/2013

Municipal financings are often perceived as a very complex, and even overwhelming, undertaking. The various rules and regulations which govern the process oftentimes seem complicated and difficult to understand. Keep in mind...more

Sequestration: Federal Subsidy Payments for BABS and Other Direct-Pay Subsidy Bonds will be Reduced 8.7%

by Sherman & Howard L.L.C. on 3/14/2013

Pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, on March 1, 2013, the President issued the sequestration order which requires automatic spending cuts ("sequestration") as the result of Congress' failure to...more

New 3.8% Medicare Tax on Investment and Unearned Income Beginning in 2013

by Thompson Coburn LLP on 11/14/2012

Starting January 1, 2013, a new 3.8% Medicare tax will apply to the investment and “unearned income” of individuals, trusts and estates. The tax is intended to apply to income exempt from the regular FICA or self-employment...more

IRS Releases Guidance on Refinancing Projects Financed with Go Zone Bonds

by Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens and Cannada,... on 12/30/2011

The IRS has released Notice 2012-3, which provides that projects originally financed with tax-exempt Gulf Opportunity Zone Bonds (“GO Zone Bonds”) may be refinanced on a tax-exempt basis after December 31, 2011, the date on...more

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