AICPA ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANTS lobbying for AICPA ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANTS

Filing 1st Quarter - Report

Reporting period

1st Quarter 2025

Jan 1 - Mar 31 · Posted Apr 17, 2025

Expenses

$1,340,000.00

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using A: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

District of Columbia

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 4

KATHRYN KILEY

Previously held: Rep Stevan Pearce; Rep Donald Manzullo; Rep JoAnn Davis; Rep Mark Kennedy
RACHEL DRESEN

Previously held: Rep Ron DeSantis; Rep Ben Quayle; Rep Jeff Flake; Rep Chris Cannon
LAUREN PFINGSTAG VAHEY New on this filing

Previously held: Rep Gus Bilirakis; Sen Angus King, Jr.
TODD SLOVES New on this filing

Previously held: Rep. Anthony Weiner, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Rep. Joseph Crowley, Rep. Adriano Espaillat, Rep. Donald Norcross

A "covered position" is a government job the lobbyist held in the 20 years before registering, which the law requires them to name. See the revolving door for former members of Congress across all filings.

Government bodies contacted 10

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Labor, Dept of (DOL)
Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA)
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
SENATE
Treasury, Dept of
White House Office

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Bills named in this filing 8

HR 517
Filing Relief for Natural Disasters Act
S 132
Filing Relief for Natural Disasters Act
HR 1491
Disaster Related Extension of Deadlines Act
HR 1151
Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act
S 756
Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act
HR 1152
Electronic Filing and Payment Fairness Act
HR 998
Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act
HR 990
SAFE Act

Lobbying activity 5

Accounting

Issues impacting the accounting and auditing profession; PCAOB matters, including disciplinary proceedings, legislation related to the Sarbanes Oxley Act and proposed amendments to Auditing Standards; Implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act; Digital assets and specifically stablecoins legislation; Issues related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) accountability and attest; Single audit of nonfederal entities federal award money.

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

General issues related to multiple areas of the tax law and code including: Legislative proposals on tax simplification, tax reform, and technical tax changes; Individual, S corporation, partnership, trust and estate implementation and extension issues regarding the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, P.L.115-97, including SALT cap passthrough entity-level taxes; Virtual currency and digital assets reporting; Disaster relief, including the Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act, Filing Relief for Natural Disasters Act (H.R. 517 / S. 132), the Casualty Loss Deduction Restoration Act, the Federal Disaster Responsibility Act, and the Disaster Related Extension of Deadlines Act (H.R. 1491); 529 plan expansion legislation, the Freedom to Invest in Tomorrows Workforce Act (H.R. 1151 / S. 756); IRS priority guidance plan; Tax administration issues, including IRS modernization, regulation of tax return preparers, Circular 230, credit and refund lookback period, mailbox rule for electronic submissions and payments, and the Electronic Filing and Payment Fairness Act (H.R. 1152), the Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act (H.R. 998), the Taxpayer Assistance and Service (TAS) Act discussion draft, IRS strategic operating plan, contingency plan for possible government shutdown, extension simplification and the Simplify Automatic Filing Extensions (SAFE) Act (H.R. 990), filing flexibility, quarterly estimated payments; Trust and estate issues, including generation-skipping transfer taxes, and gift tax returns; Mobile workforce and state income tax simplification issues; State remote sales tax issues; Methods and periods issues, including section 174 research and experimentation expensing, and other expired and expiring provisions; Corporate taxation issues, including the corporate alternative minimum tax (CAMT); Partnership taxation issues, basis-shifting transactions; Employee benefits tax issues, including implementation of SECURE 2.0; Exempt organization issues, including foreign related filings; International Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants (IESBA) rules on tax planning and related services; International tax issues, including transfer pricing, previously taxed earnings and profits, and OECD Pillar One and Pillar Two issues; Individual tax issues, including qualified business income section 199A; Accounting profession tax matters related to the 2025 budget reconciliation; Beneficial ownership information reporting issues.

Education

Legislation adding accounting to STEM definition.

Government Issues

Federal government financial statements and the Fiscal State of the Nation.

Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace

Antitrust liability issues and occupational licensing reform.