Farm Bill extension included in CR to avoid government shutdown

Following the enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, hear from ABA experts on how key ABA-supported provisions on tax policy, rural real estate and health savings accounts in the budget reconciliation law will affect banks.

Included in the bill were several ABA-supported tax provisions related to banks, including a modified version of the ABA-advocated ACRE Act and the permanent extension of the Section 199A pass-through deduction rate of 20%.

SPONSORED CONTENT PRESENTED BY MOODY'S The pace of change facing today’s agricultural lenders is unlike anything we’ve seen before. The speed of disruption is accelerating, making it harder for financial institutions to rely on traditional strategies alone. Lenders,...

The Senate Finance Committee released its reconciliation tax text that contains several differences from the version passed by the House, including changes to provisions related to the ACRE Act and the Section 199A passthrough business deduction.

Stephen Vaden, who served as general counsel to the USDA and received an appointment from the president in 2020 to serve on the U.S. Court of International Trade, is now the deputy secretary of the USDA. The Senate...

ABA and 52 state bankers associations urged senators to include legislation to expand access to affordable real estate credit in rural areas in a budget package currently under consideration in Congress.