[PDF] Financing Industrial Development By State And Local Governments With Tax Exempt Bonds eBook

Author : J. Richard Aronson
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815716273

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State and local governments are at a financial crossroads. As the federal government attempts to reduce its deficits, state governments will have to provide a greater share of support for mandatory social programs. Local governments face demands for new initiatives in education and for civic improvements. Both have obligations to employee pension plans that are large and still relatively untested. Running counter to these claims on state and local budgets is a voter effort to limit the amounts that governments may tax or spend. This fourth edition of James A. Maxwell's classic and widely acclaimed book will help both layman and lawmaker understand the choices open to their governments. It provides a lucid, nontechnical analysis of state and local finance. It gives concise descriptions of the taxes, grants, debt issues, and user charges that finance state and local government and discusses their relative virtues and drawbacks. It traces the history of state and local finance and presents statistical data on expenditures, federal aid, revenue from taxes and user charges, debt, and pension funds. The new edition, in recognition of changes since the mid-1970s, also includes a separate chapter on financing education and broadened analyses of federal grant programs, employee retirement systems, and nonguaranteed municipal debt.

Author : United States Congress
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 2018-02-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780656011926

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Excerpt from Innovative Financing of Infrastructure Investment; The Use of Tax-Exempt Bonds: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Economic Development of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, June 30, 1994 Unlike corporate debt issues, the interest received by holders of state and local governmental bonds. Also known as municipal bonds, is exempt from federal income taxes and may also by exempt from state and local income taxes. Consequently, investors will accept a lower interest rate on tax-exempt Issues because they Will not have to pay taxes on them This lower rate reduces borrowmg costs for state and local governments which use tax-exempt bonds to raise capital to build roads, bridges, airports, mass transit facilities= public power facilities and schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.