Join us in Olympia on January 15 for one of the year’s most important advocacy events. Learn about current issues facing the profession on a national and state level. Most importantly, meet with your legislators not just as constituents but as representatives of the CPA profession.

Representatives Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) and Andy Barr (R-K.Y.) introduced the Fiscal State of the Nation Resolution, H. Con. Res. 68, with 103 additional cosponsors. It provides “for a joint hearing of the Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and the Senate to receive a presentation from the Comptroller General of the United States regarding the audited financial statement of the executive branch.”

State legislatures are increasingly passing legislation recognizing blockchain technology and paving the way for the implementation of new technologies. Washington is no exception and passed Senate Bill 5638 with bipartisan support during the 2018-19 legislative session.

Recently passed House Bill 1208 bill limits the requirement for a firm license in Washington State to only those firms that perform or offer to perform compilation or attest services.

This past May, at the conclusion of the AICPA’s Spring Meeting of Council, several hundred CPAs from across the nation met with Members of Congress to ask them to support consolidating existing IRS units into a Practitioner Services Division so that taxpayer issues are more efficiently resolved.