In this week’s Tax Credit Tuesday podcast, Michael J. Novogradac, CPA, provides a recap of the latest discussions about the fiscal year 2014 budget, tax reform and the debt ceiling. In lowincome housing tax credit news, he shares information about a new program for increasing energy efficiency in multifamily housing and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s release of its first 2014 Community Reinvestment Act examination schedule, as well as the potential release of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development 2014 rent and income limits and the nomination of Mel Watt as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. In new markets tax credit news, he provides an update about the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund’s CDFI Information Mapping System upgrade and the latest Qualified Equity Investment Issuance report. In our historic tax credit news, he shares the results of a study of the use of the federal historic tax credit in Ohio. In renewable energy tax credit news, he discusses a report that predicts that the United States will be the third largest solar photovoltaic market in the world in 2014.