Why P&C

Phillips & Cohen represents whistleblowers in tax fraud and tax underpayment cases

Phillips & Cohen is the nation’s most successful law firm in representing whistleblowers. “Qui tam” (whistleblower) lawsuits the firm’s attorneys have filed on behalf of whistleblowers have resulted in the federal government recovering more than $2.7 billion.

The National Law Journal has included Phillips & Cohen in its list of “hot” plaintiffs’ law firms, and a founding partner of the law firm has been included in the National Law Journal’s list of the “100 most influential lawyers” each time for the past decade.

Phillips & Cohen lawyers have worked with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials on whistleblower cases. A False Claims Act case that involved tax code provisions returned more than $200 million to the U.S. Treasury. A separate  whistleblower case involved fraudulent tax shelters set up by Wall Street investment firms.

Recently, Phillips & Cohen lawyers were invited participants in a Senate Finance Committee roundtable discussion on the new 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.