Americans for Tax Reform

Americans for Tax Reform is an advocacy group and taxpayers union whose goal is "a system in which taxes are simpler, flatter, more visible, and lower than they are today. The government's power to control one's life derives from its power to tax. We believe that power should be minimized." Its founder and president is Grover Norquist, a conservative advocate.

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Campaign Finance

Information

Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

Latest FEC Data

covers through committee's October 5, 2012 filing. independent expenditures updated daily.
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Standardized Donation Information

covers through June 2012. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.

  • Top Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.

  • Republicans vs. Democrats

    in dollars

  • State vs. Federal

    in dollars
View all campaign finance data for Americans for Tax Reform Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Lobbying

$1,160,000 Spent
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Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers through Q2, 2012

Lobbying On Behalf of Americans for Tax Reform

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Agriculture,
    • Energy & Nuclear Power,
    • Fed Budget & Appropriations,
    • Labor, Antitrust & Workplace,
    • Radio & TV Broadcasting,
    • Taxes,
    • Telecommunications,
    • Computers & Information Tech,
    • Finance,
    • Health Issues
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    H.R.1002 Wireless Tax Fairness Act of 2011
    H.R.1860 Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2011
    S.971 Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2011
    S.543 Wireless Tax Fairness Act of 2011
    H.R.2112 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012
    H.R.2701 Main Street Fairness Act
    S.1452 Main Street Fairness Act
    H.J.RES.37 Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices.
    S.1011 Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2011
    H.R.1439 Business Activity Tax Simplification Act of 2011
View all lobbying data for Americans for Tax Reform Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

1 Mentions
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated from Regulations.gov on September 27, 2011

The tables show occurrences of "Americans for Tax Reform" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

  • Mentions in Document Text
    • Mentions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 1 IRS Guidance on Reporting Interest Paid to Nonresident Aliens 2011