# fixed-income-municipal

Evaluates US municipal bonds, calculates tax-equivalent yields, and assesses credit metrics for general obligation and revenue debt.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 658 installs · ★ 218
- Author: JoelLewis
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/wealth-management/skills/fixed-income-municipal/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-07-18
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/fixed-income-municipal

## What it does

This skill evaluates municipal debt structures, contrasting general obligation (GO) bonds backed by taxing power with revenue bonds secured by enterprise cash flows. It outlines credit metrics for projects like toll roads, water utilities, and hospitals, where revenue covenants and reserve funds dictate safety.

The logic includes calculations for the debt service coverage ratio (DSCR), muni-to-Treasury yield ratios, and the de minimis discount threshold. It also handles Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) exposure on private activity debt. A demo script runs via `uv run scripts/fixed_income_municipal.py` using PEP 723 inline dependency metadata.

Combined federal and state TEY formulas assume state taxes remain deductible on the federal return. For taxpayers at the SALT deduction cap or claiming the standard deduction, that assumption understates the in-state muni advantage, requiring an unadjusted formula.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill fixed-income-municipal -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/fixed-income-municipal/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/fixed-income-municipal/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill fixed-income-municipal -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/fixed-income-municipal/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill fixed-income-municipal -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/fixed-income-municipal/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install JoelLewis/finance_skills fixed-income-municipal
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/fixed-income-municipal/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill fixed-income-municipal -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills --path plugins/wealth-management/skills/fixed-income-municipal
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/fixed-income-municipal/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill fixed-income-municipal -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/wealth-management/skills/fixed-income-municipal/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Calculate tax-equivalent yield across federal and state tax brackets
- Assess general obligation versus revenue bond risk using DSCR metrics
- Identify discount munis triggering ordinary income taxation under the de minimis rule
- Benchmark muni yields against Treasuries to spot relative market mispricings

## Example prompts
- Calculate the tax-equivalent yield for an in-state muni yielding 3.5% with 37% federal and 5% state tax.
- Compare a 10-year GO bond yielding 3.2% against a water utility revenue bond yielding 3.6% with a 1.8x DSCR.
- Check if a municipal bond bought at 96 with 10 years to maturity crosses the de minimis threshold.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: fixed-income-municipal
description: "Analyze municipal bonds including tax-equivalent yield calculations, GO vs revenue bond evaluation, and muni credit analysis. Use when the user asks about municipal bonds, tax-exempt income, tax-equivalent yield, AMT bonds, callable bonds, yield-to-worst on munis, or muni credit quality. Also trigger when users mention 'muni bonds', 'tax-free bonds', 'state tax exemption', 'general obligation', 'revenue bonds', 'Build America Bonds', 'muni yield ratio', 'de minimis rule', or ask whether munis make sense for their tax bracket."
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# Fixed Income — Municipal

## Core Concepts

### General Obligation (GO) Bonds
Backed by the full faith, credit, and taxing power of the issuing municipality. The issuer pledges to use any available revenue source (property tax, income tax, sales tax) to repay bondholders. GO bonds typically require voter approval and are considered safer due to the broad taxing pledge.

### Revenue Bonds
Backed solely by the revenue generated from a specific project or source — toll roads (toll collections), water/sewer systems (utility fees), hospitals (patient revenue), airports (landing fees, terminal rents). Revenue bonds typically carry higher yields than GO bonds of comparable maturity and credit quality because of the narrower revenue pledge.

### Tax-Equivalent Yield (TEY)
The core calculation for comparing municipal bonds to taxable alternatives:

Federal only: TEY = Muni Yield / (1 - federal_marginal_rate)

Federal + state (for in-state munis): TEY = Muni Yield / (1 - federal_rate - state_rate × (1 - federal_rate))

This converts a tax-exempt yield to the pre-tax yield a taxable bond would need to offer to match the muni's after-tax income.

Note: the state_rate × (1 - federal_rate) term assumes state income tax is fully deductible against federal tax. For taxpayers at or above the SALT deduction cap (or taking the standard deduction), state tax provides no incremental federal deduction, and the formula simplifies to TEY = Muni Yield / (1 - federal_rate - state_rate) — the combined formula above understates the in-state muni's advantage for capped itemizers and overstates the precision of the comparison generally. Check the client's actual SALT position before choosing the formula.

### Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)
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