Providing Value To The Public Sector
Challenging Times, Practical Solutions Our firm’s public sector division is a well-recognized group of professionals with vast experience in servicing the unique requirements of its governmental clients. With our internal capabilities and years of experience, we have the capacity to serve governmental organizations with distinction through the support of our National Government Practice. As nationally recognized experts in the area of governmental operations, we provide various professional advisory services to federal, state and local municipalities including financial audits, turnaround and restructuring activities, best practices, fiscal stability plans, asset valuations, employee training programs, forensic auditing and benefit plan reviews. Our individualized, hands-on approach allows us to provide timely solutions for complex problems.
Commencing in 2018, as enacted under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Congress provided that deductions for state and local taxes are to be capped at $10,000 per married couple. Many high tax states such as California, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have considered that this was inequitable to their residents, and have passed or are drafting legislation which would allow taxpayers to make payments to state or local municipal charitable organizations in exchange for credit against their real estate or state and local taxes.
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On June 29, President Obama signed into law two major trade bills: (1) the Trade Preference Extension Act of 2015 (TPE); and (2) and the Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (TPA).
The scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs is a disappointment on many levels, and there is no lack of solutions being offered to fix it. Since this began, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and other high ranking officials have stepped down. But while making changes to senior management might fix some of the problems, that kind of top-down approach will not yield any substantive change. There are clearly some fundamental processes at the VA that are broken. The way to really fix them, and to institute real change that’s sustainable, is by working up from the bottom.
The financially stressed city of Flint may soon be facing the prospect of being the second major city in Michigan to file for Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy protection. A retiree lawsuit recently filed to stop the city from enacting proposed health care benefit cuts may push the city into insolvency.