Phillips & Cohen represents whistleblowers in tax fraud, tax evasion and other tax-related cases

Phillips & Cohen's attorneys have represented whistleblowers for more than 20 years in cases involving fraud against the government. Phillips & Cohen is by far the most successful law firm in the field. “Qui tam” (whistleblower) lawsuits the firm’s attorneys have filed on behalf of whistleblowers have resulted in more than $5.3 billion in civil recoveries and related criminal fines.

The success of the firm and its lawyers has been recognized by the legal trade press as well as the national media. The National Law Journal  included Phillips & Cohen in its select list of the Top 20 “hot” plaintiffs’ law firms in 2004, 2007 and 2009. A partner at the law firm was named to The National Law Journal's list of Top 10 "Winning" attorneys for 2008, and a founding partner of the law firm has been included in the National Law Journal’s list of the nation's “100 most influential lawyers” each time for the past decade.

Phillips & Cohen lawyers have developed an expertise in the IRS whistleblower program in several ways. Our attorneys worked closely with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials to help set up the IRS whistleblower program. A Phillips & Cohen partner was an invited speaker at an IRS training session for IRS lawyers who handle whistleblower claims. We represented a whistleblower in a successful effort to get a sizeable reward under the previous IRS whistleblower reward program. And we have a number of pending whistleblower claims with the IRS involving sizeable amounts that we've initiated on behalf of clients.

Phillips & Cohen lawyers were invited participants in a Senate Finance Committee roundtable discussion on the tax fraud whistleblower law, which covers tax fraud or tax underpayments that exceed $2 million. And they have been quoted in news articles about whistleblowers and tax fraud in such publications as the Wall Street Journal and on the business news show, “Marketplace,” broadcast by National Public Radio.

Whistleblowers who provided information about tax fraud and tax underpayments in the past to the Internal Revenue Service were often ignored, had their claims denied or received rewards from the IRS that undervalued their contributions. Even with the new law, says the Los Angeles Times, “It is up to the whistleblower to keep track, through whatever means are available, of the tax cheat’s fate and then nag the government for a reward.”

A prominent, confidential IRS informant hired Phillips & Cohen to represent him for those very reasons. He worked for a Wall Street investment bank and blew the whistle on tax shelters set up to cheat the federal government out of millions of dollars.

The whistleblower testified before a U.S. Senate committee that the IRS is “resistant to and suspicious of” informants. With the help of Phillips & Cohen attorneys, he received a reward from the IRS for his information about the tax shelters fraud.

If you have information about tax fraud or tax underpayments that exceeds $2 million and would like to talk to Phillips & Cohen confidentially about this matter, please fill out the tax fraud case evaluation form. This is the fastest and most efficient way for our attorneys to evaluate your case. You also may contact us by phone or email.

More information about the IRS whistleblower reward program can be found at Phillips & Cohen's website, www.irswhistleblowerlawyers.com.