30
Jan
2019
Tax Bill Provides CRE Investment Opportunities
Posted On January 30, 2019  By Rich Tucker  And has No Comment

The year began with a quarter of the federal government shut down, with economists warning that economic growth is likely to slow, and with the stock market coming off a bad ending to 2018. But there’s also a positive development that commercial real estate practitioners may be able […]

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06
Dec
2018
Crafting Tax Policy that Promotes Growth in Chicago
Posted On December 6, 2018  By Taivo E. Tammaru  And has No Comment

Policymakers in Washington often talk about using public-private partnerships to boost infrastructure spending and unlock value. Here in the Chicago area, local communities have actively and successfully implemented PPPs for years, largely in the form of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts. A new study just released […]

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05
Sep
2018
Proposed Hawaii Tax Could Devastate CRE Investment
Posted On September 5, 2018  By Scott Settle  And has No Comment

Virtually everyone agrees that educating our children is the most important thing a society can do. Doing so requires money, of course. But it also requires that the money be spent effectively. That’s especially important here in Hawaii, where we have a unique system for funding […]

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16
May
2018
Major Legislative Wins in 2018 for NAIOP Arizona
Posted On May 16, 2018  By Suzanne Kinney  And has No Comment

Editor’s note: NAIOP’s Government Affairs team will periodically highlight the legislative successes of our chapters at the state and local levels. This segment features NAIOP Arizona’s effective advocacy at the state level in 2018. Arizona is growing economically, and the commercial real estate industry is a key […]

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04
Apr
2018
Technical Corrections Are Follow-up to Tax Bill
Posted On April 4, 2018  By Rich Tucker  And has 1 Comment

Late last year, President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. As NAIOP President and CEO Thomas Bisacquino said at the time: “A landlord can only do as well as his or her tenants. Our expectation is that this tax reform legislation […]

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20
Dec
2017
Tax Reform Is Here
Posted On December 20, 2017  By Aquiles Suarez  And has No Comment

After many years of elected officials talking about our “broken tax code,” and fits and starts through several different congresses and presidential administrations, a comprehensive rewrite of our tax code is about to be enacted into law. The Senate followed the example of the House of […]

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27
Oct
2017
How to Craft Tax Reform That Works
Posted On October 27, 2017  By Thomas Bisacquino  And has No Comment

The following opinion editorial was written by Thomas J. Bisacquino, NAIOP president and CEO, and has appeared in newspapers across the U.S. Tax reform is a priority issue for NAIOP and commercial real estate. The piece reads as follows: A tax code is simply a set […]

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18
Oct
2017
The Push for Tax Reform
Posted On October 18, 2017  By Rich Tucker  And has No Comment

President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell say they intend to pass sweeping tax reform in the coming months. The effort is moving forward, but there are still difficulties ahead, and both say reform may end up slipping into 2018. In the Senate, for […]

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16
Aug
2017
Tax Reform Set to Heat Up the Fall Season
Posted On August 16, 2017  By Rich Tucker  And has No Comment

Lawmakers will be out of Washington until after Labor Day. When they return from their districts, they’re expected to move on from their failed attempt at health care reform, and instead focus on trying to change the tax code. But other spending issues are also looming. […]

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19
Apr
2017
While Waiting for Tax Reform, Do Not Overlook Recent Victories
Posted On April 19, 2017  By Bruce A. Johnson  And has 1 Comment

Congress is in the middle of a two-week spring recess, after having spent the first three and a half months discussing different tax reform ideas and speculating about how the Trump White House and Senate Republicans will approach several controversial proposals contained in the House GOP’s […]

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