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## [Strengthening Municipal Bonds and Credit Ratings](https://content.azavaraudit.com/blog/strengthening-municipal-bonds-and-credit-ratings)

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A city that previously operated as a sales tax haven may struggle in the short term to operate with reduced income as businesses choose to terminate rebate agreements, but it ultimately has the opportunity to re-establish fiscal security based on [sound financial management and re-optimized revenues](http://azavaraudit.com/services/maximizing-revenue), leading in turn to stronger bond ratings. Until then, these communities will struggle to maintain quality bond ratings.

Credit agencies such as Standard and Poor’s allocate a significant number of points to evidence of this kind of stability: the [Village of Harwood Heights](https://content.azavaraudit.com/case-study-village-of-hardwood-heights) is just one, positive example of a community that has managed to regain its A+ rating after weathering the Great Recession, thanks to an improvement in liquidity without the use of sales tax rebate sharing agreements that are being challenged in court. [Download the case study](https://content.azavaraudit.com/case-study-village-of-hardwood-heights).

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