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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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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.

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HR 1864 (Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act) was reported favorably out of the House Judiciary Committee on November 17 by a voice vote.  Click here for a copy of COST's letter to Congress.  For more information or to support this effort, please contact Aziza Farooki. 

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