PRESS | NSBA Petitions Supreme Court on Corporate Transparency Act, CTA

Fighting against the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) for more than a decade, NSBA is taking its challenge of this unconstitutional law to the Supreme Court in a new petition filed this week.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Thursday, April 16, 2026 

CONTACT Molly Brogan

202-276-2131, mbrogan@nsbaadvocate.org

Washington, D.C. | On Wednesday, April 15, 2026, NSBA filed with the Supreme Court of the U.S. a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in our ongoing lawsuit over the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). 

Following the December ruling against NSBA from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, NSBA has brought on Paul Clement as lead attorney. 

Mr. Clement, partner at Clement & Murphy, PLLC, served as U.S. Solicitor General from 2005 to 2008 and has argued more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court. A highly respected constitutional expert, Clement joins the NSBA legal team leading the fight against the CTA. 

“NSBA has maintained since day one that the CTA is a wildly unfair and unconstitutional burden on small and family-run businesses,” stated NSBA President and CEO Todd McCracken. “I am immensely proud of the groundswell of support we’ve gotten from our members on this issue and have complete confidence in our legal team as we push forward against this unfair regulatory regime.” 

As it currently stands, the CTA remains the law of the land. Fortunately, Treasury, through an interim rule, has opted NOT to take any enforcement actions under the CTA on U.S. citizens or domestic reporting companies or their beneficial owners. The interim rule is only temporary, however, so, if that is not finalized or a new administration repeals the rule, small businesses will be back in Treasury’s crosshairs.

“The various rulings on the NSBA lawsuit and other similar lawsuits have created massive confusion and left small businesses in a potentially very costly state of limbo,” stated NSBA Chair Bill Belknap, CEO and President of AEONRG, LLC in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. “The 50+ million small businesses in this country desperately need the Supreme Court to intervene and issue a final ruling on this deeply flawed law.” 

Read the petition filed here.

View NSBA's CTA Resource page here.

Celebrating nearly 90 years in operation, NSBA is a staunchly nonpartisan organization advocating on behalf of America’s entrepreneurs. NSBA's 65,000 members represent every state and every industry in the U.S. Please visit www.nsbaadvocate.org or follow us at @NSBAAdvocate. 

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