The National Multifamily Housing Council joined 31 other commercial real estate trade groups, CRE businesses, professional firms, and others in a letter that urges the IRS and U.S. Treasury to issue a final rule Housing  Credit  Average  Income  Test  (AIT)  minimum  set-aside.

The groups either want the final rule to incorporate "consensus modifications" the groups have offered or to announce a new proposed rule that would allow another period of public comment.

In 2018, Congress made changes to the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC), including an income averaging occupancy set-aside. The previous standard included two set-aside tests, one of which property owners had to meet.

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