It’s election season, and that means we’re going to get a lot of people bemoaning the “length” of the tax code. But you know who actually has to read all of it? Tax Lawyers, that’s who. And they know why it’s so long too.
The Presidents Who Made the Tax Code
| Tax Code Pages | 400 | 504 | 8,200 | 14,000 | 16,500 | 19,500 | 26,300 | 40,500 | 60,044 | 67,204 | 73,954 |
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The Lawyers Who Read the Tax Code
Over the next few months, we going to be hear A LOT about the presidential candidates' tax plans. But who is actually going to turn all of these proposals into actual laws? These people, that's who, the tax attorneys and lobbyists (who are often lawyers) in Washington, DC. While tax lawyers in, say, NYC help clients navigate the Tax Code, it is their peers in DC who exert influence on the *writing” of the laws themselves.
The Tax Firm Power List
Here is our take on the most active and influential law firms and lobbying shops in the area of tax practice and policymaking. The law firm portion of our list comprises both elite specialist boutiques as well as top-tier full-service Biglaw firms that place a relatively outsized emphasis on tax practice in our nation’s capital. The lobbyist firm list reflects the most commonly cited shops in our own survey of tax policy lobbyists themselves.
