102 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jun 30, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$2.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.7M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$800K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
82 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 41 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1129113th CongressMobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 201315 filingsthrough 2014
S. 386114th CongressMobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 201514 filingsthrough 2016
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: council-on-state-taxation.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
112th Congress
Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2012
14 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2315114th CongressMobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 201513 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1645113th CongressMobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 201313 filingsthrough 2014
S. 743113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 201311 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2110111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1393115th CongressMobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 540115th CongressMobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2701112th CongressMain Street Fairness Act8 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3359110th CongressMobile Workforce State Income Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Don Robert LonganoPricewaterhousecoopers
22 filingsthrough 2014
Bernard M ShapiroPricewaterhousecoopers22 filingsthrough 2014
Donald G CarlsonPricewaterhousecoopers18 filingsthrough 2016
Ferdinand HogroianCouncil on State Taxation17 filingsthrough 2017
Todd LardCouncil on State Taxation16 filingsthrough 2012
Joseph CrosbyCouncil on State Taxation11 filingsthrough 2011
Ed McclellanPricewaterhousecoopersCovered position: Tax Counsel, Senate Finance Committee8 filingsthrough 2016
Jana Malone LeslieCouncil on State Taxation5 filingsthrough 2009
Bill ArcherPricewaterhousecoopersCovered position: Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee4 filingsthrough 2015
