3In recent years, a lack of access to affordable housing and other essential community development projects has led to an increased need for alternative and reliable sources of financing for projects that begin to fill this gap.

Community Development Financial Institutions or CDFIs emerged in response to a lack of access to responsible and affordable credit and capital in minority and economically distressed communities.

The CDFI Fund has always strived to dedicate as many resources to the CDFI industry as possible. In 2012, we had our largest award round for our flagship CDFI Program in history, while behind the scenes we were reducing our administrative costs through more affordable office space and technology solutions.

Financing the construction of new supermarkets and the expansion of existing stores has emerged as a strategy for increasing access to sources of healthy food. The Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative used strategic financing as a mechanism for attacking supermarkets to distressed communities and for assisting small stores in expanding or upgrading their facilities throughout Pennsylvania.

Section 359 - Reporting of Suspicious Activities by Underground Banking Systems (d) REPORT - Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress on the need for any additional legislation relating to persons who engage as a business in an informal money transfer system or any network of people who engage as a business in facilitating the transfer of money domestically or internationally outside of the conventional financial institutions system, counter money laundering and regulatory controls relating to underground money...

This is a technical explanation of the Convention between the Government of the United States and the Government of Iceland For the Avoidance Of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed on October 23, 2007 (the "Convention"). Negotiations took into account the U.S. Treasury Department's current tax treaty policy, and the Treasury Department's Model Income Tax Convention. Negotiations also took into account the Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital, published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (the "OECD...

This is a Technical Explanation of the Convention between the Government of the United States and the Government of the Republic of Hungary for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed on February 4, 2010 (the "Convention").

This is a technical explanation of the Protocol signed at Berlin on June 1, 2006 (the "Protocol"), amending the Convention between the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital and to certain other taxes, and the related protocol, signed at Bonn on August 29, 1989 (hereinafter the "Convention" and "Protocol to the Convention" respectively). Negotiations took into account the U.S. Department of the Treasury's current tax treaty policy and Treasury's Model...

This is a technical explanation of the Protocol and the related Memorandum of Understanding signed at Paris on January 13, 2009 (hereinafter the "Protocol" and "Memorandum of Understanding" respectively), amending the Convention between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the French Republic for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital, signed at Paris on August 31, 1994, as amended by the Protocol signed on December 8, 2004 (together, the "existing Convention"). Negotiations took into...

This is a technical explanation of the Protocol signed at Washington on May 31, 2006 (the "Protocol"), amending the Convention between the United States of America and the Government of Finland for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income, signed at Helsinki on September 21, 1989 (the "Convention"). Negotiations took into account the U.S. Department of the Treasury's current tax treaty policy and Treasury's Model Income Tax Convention, published on September 20, 1996 (the "U.S. Model"). Negotiations also took into account the Model...