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An Interview with State Tax Expert Joe Crosby<\/h2>\n

\"JoeJoe Crosby serves as the chief executive officer of MultiState Associates, the nation’s leading state and local government relations services firm. He is involved in all aspects of the firm’s efforts to help clients resolve the challenges they face in the state and local government arena, with a concentration on providing strategic counsel, identifying and deploying political assets, and advancing tax policy objectives. Crosby also serves as executive director of the Council of State Chambers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Prior to joining MultiState, Joe spent 11 years with the Council on State Taxation, an association representing the nation’s largest companies on state and local business tax issues. He served COST as chief operating officer and senior director, policy. In addition to his operational responsibilities, Crosby managed all aspects of the organization’s advocacy program and regularly testified before state legislatures and other state and national policy-making bodies.<\/em><\/p>\n

Joe is a nationally recognized expert on state and local business tax policy. He was identified by State Tax Notes as the “single most influential person in state taxation” and named as the publication’s inaugural Person of the Year.<\/em><\/p>\n

Prior to his work with COST, Crosby was national director of state legislative services for Ernst & Young LLP, where he provided legislative monitoring, advocacy management, and coalition development services. Earlier in his career, he spent four years as a senior executive with a state legislative tracking firm and managed political canvasses.<\/em><\/p>\n

Joe is past president of the State Government Affairs Council, the premier national association for multi-state government affairs executives, and served on the board of directors of the Washington Area State Relations Group.<\/em><\/p>\n

He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a master’s degree in economic policy from American University in Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n

Joe will be a featured speaker at the CLA’s Excellence in Laundry Conference, to be held May 16-17 at the Naples Grande Beach Resort in Naples, Fla. He will present “Today’s Legislative Landscape for Laundry Owners.” Joe’s presentation is sponsored in part by Hamilton Engineering and Vend-Rite Manufacturing.
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