Professional Services Alliance

What Professional Services Alliance does

Professional Services Alliance (PSA) is a Washington, DC-based industry coalition that advocates against the taxation of professional services at the U.S. state level. With a six-person staff, PSA operates as a non-profit advocacy organization whose core function is to research, publish, and disseminate economic arguments opposing state-level proposals to expand sales taxes to professional services such as accounting, consulting, and other business services. The organization's activities span at least eight U.S. states (Maryland, Nebraska, Alaska, West Virginia, Utah, Illinois, California, and Minnesota), with documented engagement on specific legislative proposals including Alaska HB 373 (2022), Nebraska LB1 (2024), and Maryland B2B tax proposals (2025).

PSA's product portfolio consists of policy research documents, economic analyses, legislative testimony, template opposition letters, and "lessons learned" case studies from past failed state attempts to tax services. The organization has recorded 60 consecutive years of successfully preventing states from broadly expanding their sales tax bases to include professional services. PSA partners with allied anti-tax organizations including Americans for Tax Reform, the Volcker Alliance, the Council On State Taxation (COST), California Foundation for Commerce & Education, and Americans for a Modern Economy to extend its research credibility and distribution reach.

The business model is structured as a membership-funded industry coalition, with revenue derived from dues paid by professional service firms and trade associations. Distribution is conducted through a Squarespace-hosted website (proservicesalliance.org) that hosts PDF resources for download by industry stakeholders, policymakers, and allied organizations, supplemented by direct distribution of advocacy materials to state legislators. There is no disclosed founding date, ownership structure, leadership team, or revenue figure in the public source material.

Name

Professional Services Alliance

Legal name

Professional Services Alliance

Website

https://proservicesalliance.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Professional Services Alliance is a Washington, DC-based industry coalition that advocates against state-level proposals to expand sales taxes to professional services such as accounting and consulting. The 6-person organization publishes economic research, legislative testimony, and opposition resources funded by professional services industry membership dues.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Tax Policy Advocacy

NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Professional Organizations (813920)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Tax Advisory & Compliance (BPAHABAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Trade, Export Controls & Customs Compliance (BPAHAFAN)

Keywords

• Tax policy advocacy
• Professional services coalition
• Sales tax opposition
• Legislative advocacy services
• Industry research publishing

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues / Industry Coalition: As a professional services industry coalition, the organization likely operates through membership dues from professional associations and firms in the professional services sector to fund advocacy activities and research publication.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Professional Services Alliance is an industry coalition that advocates against the taxation of professional services at the state level. The organization publishes research, whitepapers, and position papers, and coordinates with allied organizations to oppose legislative proposals that would expand sales taxes to professional and business services. It maintains a resource library of state-specific legislative materials, letters to legislators, and economic analyses documenting the negative impacts of service taxation.

Product overview

Professional Services Alliance is a coalition of professional service firms and trade associations that advocates against the taxation of professional services. Rather than a software product, PSA operates as an advocacy organization offering a collection of research resources, legislative letters, economic analyses, and whitepapers that document the negative impacts of service taxation on state economies. The portfolio includes their core research materials on the economic case against professional service taxes, a state legislative resource library with position papers on specific proposals, and curated external research citations from partner organizations.

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Products and services

• Professional Services Tax Research and Advocacy Resources Research documents, whitepapers, and position statements explaining the economic case against taxation of professional services, including analysis of failed state attempts to expand sales taxes to services. Targeted at professional services firms, trade associations, and policymakers.
• State Legislative Resource Library Collection of letters, position papers, and legislative testimony opposing specific state proposals to tax professional and business services, including resources on Maryland, Nebraska, Alaska, Utah, West Virginia, and Illinois proposals.
• External Research Citations and Third-Party Studies Curated links to external research including Volcker Alliance fiscal studies, Americans for Tax Reform letters, California Chamber of Commerce studies, and economic impact reports from various state tax policy organizations.

Quantifiable outcome

• For 60 consecutive years, prevented states from broadly expanding sales taxes to professional services

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Americans for Tax ReformminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReferenced as an allied organization providing opposition letters to state tax proposals. Americans for Tax Reform coordinates with PSA on anti-tax initiatives at the state level, sending letters to legislators urging opposition to service tax proposals.
• Volcker AllianceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReferenced research partner exploring state fiscal challenges. The Volcker Alliance published research on state fiscal cliffs that relates to PSA's work on service taxation as a potential revenue source.
• California Foundation for Commerce & EducationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReferenced as a source of research on business services taxation. The organization published a study on services taxes relevant to California's policy debates.
• Council On State Taxation (COST)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReferenced as an allied organization providing testimony and opposition letters to state tax legislation. COST coordinates with PSA on issues affecting business taxation.
• Americans for a Modern EconomyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReferenced as an allied organization publishing op-eds and commentary against service taxation proposals, such as the Utah tax initiative.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Others

• National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL): Bipartisan organization serving U.S. state legislators and staff. Comparable as the institutional convener on the legislator side of the same state tax-policy debates PSA seeks to influence, but functions as a neutral convener rather than an advocacy peer.

Direct peers

• AICPA (American Institute of CPAs): National professional association for CPAs that actively opposes sales-tax expansion onto accounting services. Directly comparable to PSA as a professional-services trade body that funds and amplifies the same anti-service-tax message.
• Tax Foundation: Nonpartisan tax policy research organization producing economic analyses, state-by-state tax competitiveness data, and consumption-tax research. Highly comparable as a data-driven tax-policy voice that often supplies the empirical backbone for anti-service-tax arguments used by coalitions like PSA.
• Americans for a Modern Economy: Advocacy group publishing op-eds and commentary against state service-tax proposals (e.g., the Utah tax initiative). Directly comparable to PSA in mission, federalism/tax-policy lens, and state-level engagement model.
• Council On State Taxation (COST): National organization representing corporate taxpayers on state and local tax issues. Directly comparable to PSA as a multi-state tax-policy advocacy coalition; explicitly listed as an allied organization providing testimony and opposition letters on the same service-tax proposals PSA fights.
• Americans for Tax Reform: National anti-tax advocacy organization led by Grover Norquist. Operates in the same advocacy lane as PSA — opposing state and federal tax expansion — and is referenced as a co-actor on Nebraska, Maryland, and other state service-tax opposition letters.

Broad incumbents

• National Association of Manufacturers (NAM): Major industry association representing U.S. manufacturers. Operates in adjacent tax-policy advocacy and coalition-building space, often weighing in on state sales-tax base broadening; comparable as a much larger industry-coalition counterweight on similar state tax issues.
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Largest U.S. business federation, with extensive state and federal tax-policy advocacy. Comparable as a much larger, broader business-association voice that frequently opposes service-tax expansion at the state level, but covers a vastly wider policy portfolio.

Emerging players

• Volcker Alliance: Nonpartisan public-policy organization producing research on state fiscal challenges (e.g., the $195B fiscal-cliff study cited on PSA's resource page). Comparable as a research partner that informs PSA's policy arguments rather than a direct lobbying competitor.
• California Foundation for Commerce & Education: California-focused business research and policy organization that has published studies on services taxes. Comparable as a state-level research partner whose outputs PSA curates to support California-specific advocacy work.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pro-services-alliance

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