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The Council On State Taxation (COST) is the premier state tax organization representing taxpayers.  COST is a nonprofit trade association consisting of nearly 600 multistate corporations engaged in interstate and international business.  COST's objective is to preserve and promote equitable and nondiscriminatory state and local taxation of multijurisdictional business entities.


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HR 1864 Passed On Voice Vote

H.R. 1864, the Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2011, passed the US House of Representatives on a voice vote Tuesday, May 15, 2012.  Click here to view the recorded vote.

COST Appears on Fox News Live: BATSA - HR 1439

Following up on an Op Ed piece placed in the Capitol Hill Blog “The Hill,” COST President and Executive Director Doug Lindholm was interviewed on Fox News Live regarding the pressing need to enact the Business Activity Tax Simplification Act (BATSA— HR 1439). Watch here.

COST Issues Rebuttal to Citizens for Tax Justice Report

Citizens for Tax Justice this week released a report entitled "Corporate Tax Dodging In the Fifty States, 2008–2010."  Click here to see COST's rebuttal to their report.