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One Big Act: Tax-Exempt Bonds Avoid Annihilation

On July 4, 2025, the president signed into law the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the “OBBBA”).  While technically no longer a bill and its beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the OBBBA certainly is big.  Even before the almost-1,000-page OBBBA took shape, the public finance community was on alert about lawmakers … Continue Reading

IRS Releases Even More Guidance to Facilitate Opportunity Zone Program

The Opportunity Zone program was created by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (which we have previously written about here and here), to allow investors the “opportunity” to defer paying tax on gains from selling property by investing the proceeds from the sale into an Opportunity Zone Fund. The IRS issued a first round … Continue Reading
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