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BLOCK, INC

CA · US

Square Inc. is a financial services and online payments company.

Tracked direct giving

$0

Tracked donations to candidate

$0

LDA reported lobbying spend

$5,460,000

Connections

9

Lobbying Activity Detail

Disclosed lobbying expenditures from LDA filings where this entity is the client. Dollar amounts represent what was reported to the Senate Office of Public Records.

Top Lobbying Issues

TAXTaxation/Internal Revenue Code
$7.8M
FINFinancial Institutions/Investments
$7.5M
CPIComputer Industry
$7.2M
SCIScience
$6.8M
BANBAN
$5.9M
SMBSmall Business
$2.7M
CPTCopyright/Patent/Trademark
$2.3M

Lobbying Firms Retained

BLOCK, INC$6.3M
CAPITOL TAX PARTNERS, LLP$1.0M
AVOQ, LLC$840K
CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC$380K
9TH STREET STRATEGIES$150K
ZERO ONE STRATEGIES$130K
FORBES-TATE$120K
RESONANT TAX STRATEGIES, LLP$50K

Bills Referenced in Lobbying Filings

S. 1582

Lobbying data from Senate LDA filings and the LobbyView dataset (MIT/NSF, CC-BY-4.0). Dollar figures represent disclosed expenditures only and may not capture all influence activity. Issue codes follow the LDA general issue classification.

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TypeConnected ToDetailsSource
Employed byAVOQ, LLCHired AVOQ, LLC to lobby on GENIUS ActSource
Employed byFORBES-TATEHired FORBES-TATE to lobby on Crypto / Digital AssetsSource
Lobbied forGENIUS Act, Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (S.394)LDA filing: lobbied on GENIUS Act, period 2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30), reported amount $510,000Source
Employed byZERO ONE STRATEGIESHired ZERO ONE STRATEGIES to lobby on Crypto / Digital AssetsSource
Employed byRESONANT TAX STRATEGIES, LLPHired RESONANT TAX STRATEGIES, LLP to lobby (2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026)Source
Employed byCAPITOL TAX PARTNERS, LLPHired CAPITOL TAX PARTNERS, LLP to lobby (1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2023)Source
Employed by9TH STREET STRATEGIESHired 9TH STREET STRATEGIES to lobby (2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2024)Source
Employed byCROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLCHired CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC to lobby (4th Quarter (Oct 1 - Dec 31) 2024)Source
Rebranded fromBLOCK, INC. (FORMERLY REPORTED AS SQUARE, INC.)Square, Inc. rebranded to Block, Inc. on December 10, 2021.Source