Tax Credit Tuesday Podcasts

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 created two new ways to monetize renewable energy tax credits (RETCs): 1) transferability, the ability to transfer certain RETCs as if they were separate property, and 2) elective pay or direct pay, the ability for certain tax-exempt owners of renewable energy property to report certain RETCs on their tax returns, and in turn, have the Internal Revenue Service r...

Since its passage one year ago, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has spurred hundreds of billions of dollars in domestic, utility scale clean energy investments. Three incentives'the HOMES Energy Rebate Program, the Internal Revenue Code Section 45L Energy Efficient Homes Credit and the solar investment tax credit (ITC)'provide options to developers, investors and others in the affordable housi...

Affordable housing professionals who use the 4% low-income housing tax credit to finance and build homes may be familiar with two key tests that are crucial to bond transactions: The 50% test and the 95-5 test. On this week's episode of Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Charlie Rhuda, CPA, unpack four essential pieces of information about each of these two tests. First, they give ba...

Rental property owners who receive assistance from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through debt financing and/or tenant rent subsidies used to develop and preserve affordable housing are subject to several reporting and compliance requirements. On this week's episode of Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Susan Wilson, CPA, delve into the reporting and compl...

While the supply of community development tax incentives is a multi-billion-dollar annual market for tax credits that include the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC), new markets tax credit (NMTC), historic tax credit (HTC) and various clean/renewable energy tax credits (RETCs), the demand for such credits plays a major role in determining their value. On this week's Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael...

Community development tax incentives create a multi-billion-dollar annual market for tax credits, including the low-income housing tax credit, new markets tax credit, historic tax credit and various clean energy tax credits. On this week's Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA, is joined by Novogradac partners Tony Grappone, CPA; Dirk Wallace, CPA; and Brad Elphick, CPA; for Part 1 of a two-...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) annually releases income limits to determine eligibility for low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) properties. HUD also releases caps that determine the maximum annual income a family can have and still be eligible to occupy HUD-assisted and LIHTC-financed housing, as well as to determine the maximum rent that tenants can be charged. On th...

This summer marks five years since the effective launch of the opportunity zones (OZ) incentive. In this episode of Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and guests John Sciarretti, CPA, and Jason Watkins, CPA, discuss OZ hot topics, such as the recently introduced Opportunity Zones Transparency, Extension and Improvement Act, which would create rural opportunity zones and create reporting...

One of the crucial steps to an affordable housing property receiving low-income housing tax credits (LIHTCs) is the placed-in-service application the developer files with the housing credit agency. That application sets up the property to receive its Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Forms 8609, which allocate the tax credits on a per-building basis. In this Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael Novogr...

With market and economic conditions changing so rapidly, historic tax credit (HTC) developers, syndicators, investors and lenders are updating their financial models more frequently for their HTC projects. In this episode of Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and guest Dave Graff, CPA, discuss specific development costs that they see changing most often in the current economic environmen...

Developers, investors, syndicators, property managers and more know there are plenty of upsides to partnering with nonprofit organizations to develop and manage low-income housing tax credit properties. In this week's episode of Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Lance Smith, CPA, discuss four key tax considerations for anyone considering partnering with a nonprofit developer to buil...

Capitol Hill has seen a flurry of legislation introduced this year to strengthen, expand, extend or create tax incentives in affordable housing and community development. The low-income housing tax credit, historic tax credit, new markets tax credit, opportunity zones and more are just some of the incentives that could be affected by recently introduced legislation. In today's Tax Credit Tuesday,...

Building for-sale affordable housing in economically distressed areas is a challenge that many for-profit and nonprofit developers face and a key hurdle is gaining financial equity. One method is the use of new markets tax credits to finance such housing and in today's Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Novogradac partner George Barlow, CPA, discuss the issues and opportunities relat...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released 2023 income limits to determine eligibility for low-income housing tax-credit (LIHTC) properties and HUD-assisted programs last week. On this week's Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Thomas Stagg, CPA, discuss the income limits and the implications for operators of LIHTC properties. They look at the big-picture take...

Several upcoming deadlines and changes in low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) property compliance have wide-ranging implications for developers, owners, investors, property managers and beyond. Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Stephanie Naquin, HCCP, COS, discuss four major issues on the horizon in 2023 in property compliance: the average income set-aside, the implementation of new income and asset...

The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund incentivizes community development and economic growth through the new markets tax credit (NMTC). Small business loan funds are one way community development entities (CDEs) can invest in small businesses in amounts up to $4 million. In today's episode of Tax Credit Tuesday, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Greg Clements, CPA, discuss the pros and...

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 allows for the transferability of certain renewable energy tax credits, including the production tax credit (PTC) and the investment tax credit (ITC). As the renewable energy community awaits further guidance from the Internal Revenue Service, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Josh Morris, CPA, discuss in this week's podcast the basics of transferability, including h...

Federal law generally requires low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) properties to remain rent restricted and only available to low-income tenants for a minimum of 30 years. This period of required affordability beyond Year 15 is called the extended-use period. Some states extend the affordability period even longer. As more LIHTC properties reach or approach Year 30, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and...

A growing number of real estate developers are choosing U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-insured loans: Section 221(d)(4) and Section 223(f). Both programs allow real estate developers to borrow more money at lower interest rates and longer amortization terms, compared to most conventional loans. Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Novogradac partner Tiffany French, CPA, compare and...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released Accounting Standards Update 2023-02, which expanded the ability to use the proportional amortization method of accounting to all tax credits. Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Novogradac partner Brad Elphick, CPA, discuss what the announcement means for multiple types of tax credit investments, including federal low-income housing tax credits, new marke...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) published Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2023-02 on March 29, which expands the proportional amortization method to account for investments in all tax credit structures. That accounting method was previously allowed only for low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) investments, but now is available, by election, to all community development tax credi...

Due to uncertainty about U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funding levels each year, a growing number of public housing authorities (PHAs) are exploring asset repositioning options for their public housing stock. Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Novogradac partner Rich Larsen, CPA, discuss five common asset repositioning options, including the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) progr...

Developers of historic buildings know that preserving the architectural integrity and historic character of a property adds significant additional development costs, which in turn, creates or expands a financing gap. Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Novogradac partner Warren Sebra, CPA, discuss additional financing sources for historic preservation, beyond the federal historic tax credit. They discuss...

Provisions in last summer's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) created "adders" to the renewable energy investment tax credit when solar power is installed on affordable housing properties. In this week's Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael Novogradac, CPA, and Novogradac partner Dirk Wallace, CPA, discuss the provisions'both for affordable housing and for other low-income communities. They take a brie...

Housing starts'including multifamily'have outpaced household formation over the past three years, although the longer-term trend is the reverse: That households are forming faster than homes are being created over a five- and 10-year period. In this week's Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael Novogradac, CPA, discusses the short- and long-term effects of housing trends with Kelly Gorman, a Novograd...