Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Tax Controversy
Federal tax controversy counsel for cryptocurrency and blockchain matters involving IRS examinations, Form 1099-DA, basis disputes, penalties, unreported digital assets, and related procedural issues.
Received an IRS examination notice, CP2000, Form 1099-DA mismatch, IDR, penalty proposal, or Tax Court notice? Early review can materially affect the available response.
Limited to conflicts, matter fit, and potential engagement. Substantive legal advice is provided only after engagement.
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Digital-asset tax disputes can involve large numbers of transactions, incomplete exchange or wallet records, disputed basis, inconsistent information reporting, staking or mining income, token exchanges, and transactions that were omitted from prior federal tax returns. Chase Counsel evaluates the transaction history, available records, Forms 1099-DA and other information returns, IRS notices, tax and penalty exposure, potential defenses, and available administrative or judicial remedies.
Selected matters only. The firm does not provide routine tax-return preparation services.
Attorney Chase Sizemore, JD, LLM
Principal, Chase Counsel PLLC
Georgetown Tax LLM | Former KPMG Auditor
U.S. Tax Court | Columbia University Graduate Studies
National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Diploma
30+ Years of Legal Experience
When digital-asset reporting becomes an IRS controversy, the issue is no longer tax preparation. It is representation.
Federal tax examinations involving cryptocurrency, blockchain-based assets, exchanges, wallets, transaction histories, income, gains, losses, and related reporting issues.
Disputes involving Form 1099-DA reporting, transaction information, gross proceeds, basis information, and inconsistencies between broker records and taxpayer records.
Federal tax controversies involving cryptocurrency sales, exchanges, transfers, payments, or other taxable transactions omitted from prior returns.
Matters involving disputed cost basis, holding periods, gains or losses, transferred digital assets, and incomplete or conflicting transaction records.
Tax disputes involving staking rewards, mining income, airdrops, compensation, payments, and other forms of digital-asset income.
Fact-intensive matters requiring analysis and reconciliation of exchange histories, wallet records, transfers, transaction data, and other supporting documentation.
Evaluation of civil penalties, reporting failures, reasonable-cause issues, taxpayer conduct, professional advice, and other facts relevant to penalty defenses.
Administrative protests, IRS Appeals proceedings, settlement negotiations, U.S. Tax Court matters, and related federal tax controversy proceedings involving digital assets.
Selected matters only. The firm does not provide routine tax-return preparation services.
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Georgetown Tax LLM | U.S. Tax Court | Former KPMG Auditor | Columbia University Graduate Studies | 30+ Years of Legal Experience
Chase Counsel is not a high-volume tax-resolution practice.
Attorney Chase Sizemore personally evaluates and leads each matter, drawing on more than thirty years of legal and advisory experience. He earned an LLM in Taxation from Georgetown University and previously worked as an auditor at KPMG. He is admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court, completed graduate studies at Columbia University, received advanced trial-advocacy training through the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and has nearly two decades of professional experience in South Korea and China.
Outside his law practice, he founded and leads Teach Them To Fish Foundation, which builds and supports primary schools in rural Cambodia and Uganda for vulnerable children, with particular emphasis on girls' education. His humanitarian service has been recognized with the U.S. Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award, the Royal Order of Cambodia medal, and eight Cambodian Sthapana Cheat gold medals.
His published and forthcoming work includes the legal treatise Nonprofit Stewards, the memoirs The Road to Kitgum and Where the Red Earth Broke, and numerous legal and scholarly articles.
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