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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released 2024 rent and income limits earlier this month'limits that determine renter eligibility for HUD-assisted programs and for properties financed by low-income housing tax credit (LIHTCs). The limits also determine the maximum rents that owners of LIHTC properties can charge tenants. In this week's podcast, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Novogradac partner Thomas Stagg, CPA, discuss the rent and income limits. They look at key takeaways, how the new 10% ceiling affected limits, what geographic areas saw income limit growth that was below the national average of 6% or decreased and how the income limits affect (or don't affect) HERA special properties. They also look to what to expect in 2025 and key dates for data release that will affect those 2025 limits.

In the latest installment in Tax Credit Tuesday's recurring Renewable Energy Tax Credit Finance series, Michael Novogradac, CPA, is joined by Tony Grappone, CPA to discuss final regulations concerning the elective pay option for certain renewable energy investment tax credits. The Internal Revenue Service published the final regulations in the March 11 Federal Register to adopt and codify temporary regulations issued in June 2023, with slight modifications. Learn about the elective pay final regulations, how they differ from the temporary regulations, potential penalties for excessive payments and the impact of other financing on elective pay.

Affordable housing and community development finance can be dense, layered, complex topics to understand. In the latest episode of the Novogradac Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael Novogradac, CPA , and Wayne Michael, CPA , Novogradac's senior director of education, discuss Novogradac's e-learning platform,' Novoco Training , which seeks to bridge the gaps between novice and knowledgeable when it comes to developing affordable rental housing and financing community development using such incentives as the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC), historic tax credit (HTC), new markets tax credit (NMTC), renewable energy production tax credit (PTC) and investment tax credit (ITC) and more. They discuss what distinguishes the e-learning platform from other points of contact and information with Novogradac, the different types of content and their formats available and ways users can access that content.

Many in the affordable rental housing development community may think they know what is meant by the term "mixed income," but, in fact, the phrase has many different interpretations depending on person, jurisdiction, property type, ownership structure and more. In the latest installment in the Tax Credit Tuesday podcast's So You Want to Be a LIHTC Developer series, Michael Novogradac, CPA , and Mark Shelburne , Novogradac housing policy consultant, discuss six different ways the term can be interpreted. Later, the pair discusses three potential impacts these terms can have on investor interest, additional debt burden and property compliance.

In this episode of the Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Brad Elphick, CPA, discuss four hot topics in the new markets tax credit (NMTC) community. First, they discuss upcoming qualified equity investment issuance and reporting deadlines for prior allocatees. Second, they talk about recommendations to combine the next two allocation rounds into a single $10 billion allocation round. Third, they discuss what's new and notable with the 2024 NMTC application that was released for public comment. They conclude with important updates in the NMTC Compliance FAQs document.

The United States Tax Court ruled in a Feb. 20 decision that a taxpayer was correct to include bond issuance costs in eligible basis for a 4% low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) property in New York City. That decision ran counter to more than two decades of practice that followed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance from as far back as 2000 that said including such costs was disallowed. In the latest installment of Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Nicolo Pinoli, CPA, discuss the details of the case in question before the court as well as the possible ramifications of the decision, including what the IRS could do now and what this decision could mean for credit allocating agencies, developers, investors and others who build multifamily affordable rental housing using LIHTCs.

In the latest installment in Tax Credit Tuesday's recurring Renewable Energy Tax Credit Finance series, Michael Novogradac, CPA, is joined by Tony Grappone, CPA, and Peter Lawrence to discuss four legislative and regulatory hot topics of concern for those in the renewable energy development community in early 2024. First, the trio discusses the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024, which contains green and clean energy provisions and could see passage this month during several rounds of congressional budgetary discussions. Next, the group discusses Basel III regulations and their potential rise to risk weighting for renewable energy tax credit investments. Third, they discuss proposed tax regulations for multiple renewable energy and energy storage investment tax credits. Finally, the three discuss recently released guidance for the domestic content adder for renewable energy development that was included in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.

The fiscal year (FY) 2024 round of the Capital Magnet Fund (CMF) opened Feb. 15. Approximately $250 million in cash awards is available to Community Development Financial Institutions and qualified nonprofit housing groups to fund the development, renovation and preservation of affordable rental housing and homeownership. In this week's episode of Tax Credit Tuesday, host Michael Novogradac, CPA, and guests Brent Parker, CPA, and Amanda Read, CPA, discuss the 2024 round of the CMF. The group provides basic information for prior awardees, prior unsuccessful applicants and those curious about applying this year. Later, the discussion includes deeper information about the application process and tips for how to gain an edge in a funding application process where roughly one-third of applicants succeed.

Over the past 10 years, the number of state-level low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) incentives has increased from 13 to 30 as more states recognize the value of a state LIHTC to help fill financing gaps for affordable multifamily rental housing. In this week's episode of Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Novogradac partner Aaron Sherrard, CPA, discuss state housing credits as part of the ongoing "So You Want to Be a LIHTC Developer" podcast series. They review the basics of state LIHTCs, then discuss the differences and opportunities for certificated and allocated credits before moving on to structuring issues for transactions involving state LIHTC equity. After that, they look at what types of state taxes are offset by the credits and how states can design incentives to increase their value.

Affordable multifamily rental housing property developers and managers can apply now for roughly $2 billion in grants and direct-, below-market loans via the Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP). Introduced via the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, GRRP is a federal program that provides green and clean-energy support to rental properties that receive support from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In this week's episode of Tax Credit Tuesday, host Michael Novogradac, CPA , and guests Dirk Wallace, CPA , and Karie McMillen, CPA , discuss the multi-wave application process, which splits the funding into three cohorts'Elements, Leading Edge and Comprehensive. The podcast discusses the basics of the program, provides information for listeners about the application process and supplies information to consider after winning an award.

While the Housing Opportunities Through Modernization Act (HOTMA) was signed into law in 2016, most provisions of the legislation'which is intended to streamline administration and ease the burden of compliance for affordable rental housing, including that financed by low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) equity'didn't take effect until Jan. 1. In this week's episode of Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Stephanie Naquin, Novogradac's director of multifamily property compliance, discuss the provisions of HOTMA, including changes in how to calculate student financial aid and child support. They also discuss how HOTMA changes the imputation of income from assets and verification of tenant income before wrapping up with a look at how state agencies are implementing the new provisions.

Sensitivities around timing can lead to variances in the volume of low-income housing tax credits (LIHTCs) an owner or manager can claim in the first year a LIHTC property is placed in service. In this episode of Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA , and Novogradac partner Dayle Dalling, CPA, discuss four paths to optimizing first-year LIHTCs: 9% new construction, 4% new construction, 9% acquisition-rehabilitation and 4% acquisition-rehabilitation. They outline why the issue is important to owners, managers, developers and more before segueing into how first-year credits are determined.

Authorized under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the ability to transfer renewable energy investment tax credits is increasing liquidity in the tax credit marketplace and is changing the way partnerships are structuring renewable energy transactions. Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Novogradac partner Tony Grappone, CPA, discuss 2023 Q4 expectations vs. actual closings, favored transferability structures, the effects of transferability on tax credit equity pricing and transferability tips.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a notice in the Jan. 10 Federal Register establishing a 10% cap on income limit increases for housing fin ' 'anced by low-income housing tax credits (LIHTCs), private activity bonds (PABs) and various HUD programs, including Section 8. In this week's episode of the Novogradac Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Novogradac partner Thomas Stagg, CPA, discuss how the cap has historically been calculated and how the notice clarifies the calculation of rent and income limits. Later, they discuss the possible effects of the decision as well as future dates to circle on the calendar.

Affordable rental housing financed by low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) equity can either be new construction or property that is acquired and rehabilitated. In this week's episode of Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Christina Apostolidis, CPA, discuss the acquisition-rehabilitation (acq-rehab) option as part of the ongoing "So You Want to Be a LIHTC Developer" series. They examine what makes a property eligible to receive acq-rehab credits, the differences that developers will see between new construction and acq-rehab and issues related to tenants in properties that are acquired and rehabilitated.

Rental income, operating expenses and net operating income all set new records in 2022, according to data published in the Novogradac 2023 LIHTC Income and Operating Expenses Report, reflecting some of the economics of operating affordable housing properties in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic issues. In this week's Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Kelly Gorman, the lead author of the report, discuss what we learned from 2022 data, including top-level impressions, why the repairs and maintenance category jumped, the curious increase of both rental income and vacancy loss and what's happening with property insurance. They also look at the effects of HUD's method of determining income caps for low-income housing tax credit properties and what's happened in 2023.

There are many economic benefits generated by renewable energy facilities. Chief among them are tax credits, tax losses and distributable cash flow from operations and from sale or refinance. These benefits are shared between the investor and developer sponsor, typically outlined in a multi-year benefit schedule. However, there are other significant economic benefits for a sponsor, the two most notable being developer fees and annual asset management fees. In today's podcast, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Novogradac partner Tony Grappone, CPA, will review the main economic benefits for a sponsor and how the ownership structure affects the sharing of those benefits.

In October, the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) released an updated edition of its Recommended Practices in Housing Credit Administration, a collection of standards that guides how states administer the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC). In this week's episode of the Novogradac Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Novogradac housing policy consultant Mark Shelburne highlight six of the 46 recommended practices in the release. The two discuss diversity of participants in LIHTC transactions, tax- and bond-financed developments, the distinction between development costs for new constructions versus acquisition-rehabilitations, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) form 8609, the nonprofit right of first refusal and the addition of tenant protection guidance.

Recent legislative and market changes are influencing renewable energy tax credit structures. In this week's episode of the Novogradac Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Tony Grappone, CPA, discuss which ownership structures are gaining popularity and how the major economic benefits generated by renewable energy facilities are being apportioned between investors and developers.

The three agencies that oversee the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)'designed to ensure banks invest in the low- and moderate-income areas where they receive deposits'released their final regulations Oct. 24, making the first substantial change to CRA regulations since 1995. In this week's Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Peter Lawrence, Novogradac's director of public policy and government relations, discuss the new CRA regulations and how they may affect various tax incentives. They begin by looking at the provisions of the final rule, then discuss the implications for the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) and new markets tax credit (NMTC) before moving on to see how the regulations might affect the historic tax credit (HTC), renewable energy tax credits (RETCs) and the opportunity zones (OZ) incentive. After that, they discuss the possible timeline and share resources about the coming changes.