In this week's Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael J. Novogradac, CPA, discusses some tax credit amendments filed to an education savings plan bill. Then, he shares some recommendations submitted to the Senate Finance Committee tax reform working groups. More specifically, he outlines some of the suggestions made to improve the low-income housing tax credit, new markets tax credit and renewable energy tax credits. In the affordable housing section, he talks about what the House Transportation-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee included in its fiscal year 2016 spending bill. Then, he'll provide a state-level item about lowincome housing tax credit awards in Wisconsin. In the same section, he shares news about an affordable housing leader who is retiring after 40 years of service to the industry. In the new markets tax credit section, he discusses an upcoming advisory board meeting for the entity that administers the New Markets Tax Credit program: the CDFI Fund. Then, in the historic tax credit section, he talks about how listeners can learn or get a refresher on the essentials of the historic tax credit program. In the renewable energy tax credit section, he examines three Louisiana bills that endanger the state's solar energy tax credit and how the bills could have an adverse effect on the state's economy.
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