Philip Wolf represents clients in civil and criminal tax controversies, including examinations, administrative appeals, tax collection, criminal investigations, and trials in federal and state court. He also advises clients on international, corporate, partnership, and individual tax issues as well as tax issues related to cryptocurrency. Mr. Wolf is also a regular columnist at the leading international tax magazine, Tax Analysts, where he has published or been featured in over 70 articles on various tax topics.
Mr. Wolf graduated from the New York University School of Law, where he received his Executive LL.M in tax law in the top 10 percent of his class. Before that, Mr. Wolf received his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law with a Formal Concentration in Taxation. He was awarded the Hastings Three-Year Provost Scholarship and graduated in the top 25 percent of his tax class. Mr. Wolf also studied alternative dispute resolution and negotiation and was a member of the Hastings Alternative Dispute Resolution Team. Mr. Wolf received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, with High Honors (Phi Beta Kappa).
Before joining the firm, Mr. Wolf was a Mergers and Acquisition Tax Intern at KPMG, one of the Big Four accounting organizations, in their Silicon Valley Office. He also was a Tax Intern for BDO, an accounting, tax, and business advisory firm in their San Jose Office, where Mr. Wolf worked as part of their Transfer Pricing Team.
Mr. Wolf’s pro bono practice includes being the former Assistant Director for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program in San Francisco. As a trained and IRS-certified volunteer, Mr. Wolf assisted elderly and low-income taxpayers in preparing their tax returns. He is fluent in multiple languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, and Catalan, as well as conversational in several other languages.