• Low income housing tax credit; S. 1989, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the minimum low-income housing tax credit rate for unsubsidized building and to provide a minimum 4 percent credit rate for existing buildings; H.R. 3661, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent and expand the temporary minimum credit rate for the low-income housing tax credit program.

Duration: December 20, 2010 to March 31, 2012

General Issues: Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $400,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2010: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Treasury - Dept of, U.S. Senate,, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD)