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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
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| Address1 | 1828 L Street NW |
Address2 | Suite 300-A |
| City | Washington |
State | DC |
Zip Code | 20036 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 401103226-12
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6. House ID# 426180000
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| TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2024 |
Q1 (1/1 - 3/31) | Q2 (4/1 - 6/30) | Q3 (7/1 - 9/30) | Q4 (10/1 - 12/31) |
9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report
| 10. Check if this is a Termination Report | Termination Date |
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11. No Lobbying Issue Activity |
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| INCOME relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period was: | EXPENSE relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period were: | ||||||||
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| Provide a good faith estimate, rounded to the nearest $10,000, of all lobbying related income for the client (including all payments to the registrant by any other entity for lobbying activities on behalf of the client). | 14. REPORTING Check box to indicate expense accounting method. See instructions for description of options. | ||||||||
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Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code |
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| Signature | Digitally Signed By: Lee Bodner |
Date | 1/21/2025 4:57:19 PM |
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code TAX
16. Specific lobbying issues
American Family Act HR 3899; S.1992 - Child tax credits
Social Security 2100 Act H.R. 4583; S. 2280 - Social Security Solvency
No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act H.R. 774; S.357 - Making changes to various tax provisions that encourage offshoring of jobs
No Tax Breaks for Union Busting Act H.R. 5456; S. 737 - Making changes to the tax code to disincentivize writing off expenses related to union busting taxes
Billionaire Minimum Income Tax Act H.R. 6498 - Create new taxes billionaires
Assuring Medicares Promise Act H.R. 34 - New taxes and changes to ensure Medicare solvency
Social Security Expansion Act H.R. 1046; S. 393 - Expand social security benefits
For the 99.5 Percent Act H.R. 2676; S. 1178 - Increase tax rates on decedent estates, gifts, and generation skipping transfers
Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act H.R. 7749 - New taxes on ultrawealthy individuals
Wall Street Tax Act H.R. 4870 - Create a 0.1% excise tax on certain financial transactions such as the purchase of stocks, bonds, and derivative
Oligarch Act H.R. 4919 - Create a tax on the net value of all taxable assets of a taxpayer as of the last day of any calendar year
Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonus Act H.R. 324; S. 3155 - Extend the $1 million limit on the deductibility of executive compensation to all employees of publicly traded corporations
End Tax Breaks for Dark Money Act H.R. 7244; S. 3743 - Extends the capital gains tax on transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt social organizations (e.g., civics leagues, agricultural organizations, or business leagues)
End Polluter Welfare Act H.R. 9839 - Eliminates certain tax breaks and incentives for oil and gas companies
Tax on Wall Street Speculation Act H.R. 4119; S. 1990 - Create an excise tax on the transfer of ownership in certain securities (covered transactions), including any share of stock in a corporation; any partnership or beneficial interest in a partnership or trust; any note, bond, debenture, or other evidence of indebtedness (excluding tax-exempt municipal bonds); and derivative financial instruments or digital assets
End Oil & Gas Tax Subsidies Act H.R. 1483 - Limit or repeal certain fossil fuel oil and gas subsidies for oil companies.
Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act H.R. 7041; S. 3620 - Increase the corporate income tax rate based on the ratio of compensation of principal executive officers or other highest compensated employees to median worker compensation
Curtailing Executive Overcompensation Act H.R. 6191; S. 3176 - Create an excise tax on employers (i.e., business entities) that have at least a 50 to 1 disparity between the wages (including bonuses, stock awards and options) of chief executive officers and the wages paid to their workers. Applicable to employers that have not less than $100 million in annual gross receipts and $10 million in payroll over a 3 year period and limit such tax to 1% of an employer's gross receipts.
Stop Corporate Inversions Act H.R. 8268 ; S. 4275 - Makes changes to corporate taxes to disincentivize offshoring
CEO Accountability & Responsibility Act H.R. 1284 - Increases the corporate income tax rate for publicly traded corporations that pay their chief executive officers or highest paid employees more than 100 times the median compensation of all their U.S. employees or that increase the number of contracted or foreign employees.
Ending Wall Street Tax Giveaway Act; H.R. 2686 - Modify the tax treatment of carried interest
Medicare & Social Security Fair Share Act H.R. 4535 ; S. 1174 - Increase funding for the Social Security and Medicare trust funds by extending the payroll tax on wages, self-employment income, and investment income to taxpayers with earnings exceeding $400,000.
Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act H.R. 7933; S. 4098 - Makes changes to prevent corporations dodging federal taxes
American Innovation & Jobs Act H.R. 2673;S. 866 - Eliminate the five-year amortization requirement for research and experimental expenditures, thus allowing continued expensing of such expenditures in the taxable years in which they are incurred.
Death Tax Repeal Act H.R. 7035; S. 1108 - Repeal of the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes. It also sets forth conforming amendments related to the gift tax.
Main Street Tax Certainty Act H.R. 4721; S. 1706 - Makes permanent the tax deduction for qualified business income
TCJA Permanency Act H.R. 976 - Makes permanent the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Saving Gig Economy Taxpayers Act H.R. 190 - This bill modifies requirements for third party settlement organizations to eliminate their reporting requirement with respect to the transactions of their participating payees unless they have earned more than $20,000 on more than 200 separate transactions in an applicable tax period.
ALIGN Act H.R. 2406 - This bill makes permanent the expensing of certain new business equipment. Expensing allows the deduction of the full amount of an expense item in the same taxable year.
FairTax Act H.R. 25 - This bill creates a national sales tax on the use or consumption in the United States of taxable property or services in lieu of the current income taxes, payroll taxes, and estate and gift taxes.
Defending American Jobs & Investment Act H.R. 3665 - provides for the enforcement of remedies against foreign countries that have extraterritorial or discriminatory taxes.
Small Business Growth Act H.R. 3661 - This bill increases from $1 million to $2 million to the limitation on expensing of depreciable business assets. It also increases the asset threshold amount used to reduce the expensing limitation.
American Investment in Manufacturing Act H.R. 2788 - This bill makes permanent the allowance for depreciation, amortization, or depletion for purposes of determining the income limitation on the tax deduction for business interest.
Permanently Repeal the Estate Tax Act H.R. 338 - Repeals the federal estate tax, effective for estates of decedents dying after December 31, 2022.
Billionaires Income Tax Act - S. 3367 Imposes new taxes on taxpayers with high incomes
Carried Interest Fairness Act - S. 4123 Eliminated Carried Interest loophole
Paying a Fair Share Act S. 1173 - Requires an individual taxpayer whose adjusted gross income exceeds $1 million (high-income taxpayer) to pay a minimum tax rate of 30% of the excess of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income over the taxpayer's modified charitable contribution deduction for the taxable year (tentative fair share tax)
Ending the Carried Interest Loophole Act S. 3317 - Ends the carried interest loophole
Stock Buyback Accountability Act S. 413 - Increase stock buy back taxes
Wall Street Tax Act S. 2491 - Create a 0.1% excise tax on certain purchases of stocks, bonds, and derivatives
Stop Subsidizing Giant Mergers Act S.4011 - Eliminates the deferral of tax for shareholders who receive stock through corporate mergers, acquisitions, or transfers involving corporations with annual gross receipts exceeding $500 million over the three preceding taxable year period.
Book Minimum Tax Repeal Act S. 1559 - Repeals the 15% alternative tax on the financial statement (i.e., book) income of certain corporations. The tax applies to companies that report over $1 billion in profits to their shareholders.
Small Business Growth Act S. 2609 - This bill increases from $1 million to $2.5 million the limitation on expensing of depreciable business assets. It also increases the asset threshold amount used to reduce the expensing limitation.
Carbon Aviation Tax Act S. 2378 - Imposes jet fuel taxes on private jets
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, White House Office
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
Information Update Page - Complete ONLY where registration information has changed.
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LOBBYIST UPDATE
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ISSUE UPDATE
24. General lobbying issue that no longer pertains
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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
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26. Name of each previously reported organization that is no longer affiliated with the registrant or client
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FOREIGN ENTITIES
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28. Name of each previously reported foreign entity that no longer owns, or controls, or is affiliated with the registrant, client or affiliated organization
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CONVICTIONS DISCLOSURE
29. Have any of the lobbyists listed on this report been convicted in a Federal or State Court of an offense involving bribery,
extortion, embezzlement, an illegal kickback, tax evasion, fraud, a conflict of interest, making a false statement, perjury, or money laundering?
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