Lobbying

Officials in some states are seeking to regulate prediction markets like casinos, requiring the companies to apply for state licenses and pay state taxes.

Members of the Georgia Society of CPAs gathered at the state capitol in Atlanta last week to lobby lawmakers on behalf of the accounting profession.

Businesses would have to pay a tax based on the amount they spent to lobby the government.

The political network backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch is launching a $4 million advertising campaign against two Senate Democrats facing re-election in 2018, as it starts to fulfill a pledge to spend $20 million selling the federal tax overhaul passed late last year.

There’s nothing like $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to help make friends at a gathering of conservative political donors.