FEDERAL TAX CONTROVERSY | NONPROFIT | CROSS-BORDER U.S. LAW
Attorney Chase Sizemore brings more than thirty years of legal and advisory experience, with advanced training in tax law and accounting. He earned an LLM in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center and previously worked as an auditor at KPMG. He is admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court, completed graduate studies in nonprofit law and management at Columbia University, received advanced trial-advocacy training through NITA, and has nearly two decades of professional experience in Asia.
He founded and leads Teach Them To Fish Foundation, which builds primary schools in rural Cambodia and Uganda for vulnerable children, with particular emphasis on the education of girls. 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 writing includes Nonprofit Stewards, The Road to Kitgum, Where the Red Earth Broke, and numerous legal articles.
Attorney Chase Sizemore, JD, LLM
Principal, Chase Counsel PLLC
Georgetown Tax LLM | Former KPMG Auditor
Admitted to U.S. Tax Court | Columbia University Graduate Studies
National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Diploma
30+ Years of Legal Experience
Practice Areas
Chase Counsel PLLC concentrates on three principal areas of United States law. Select an area below for additional information.
Representation in serious federal tax controversies, including IRS examinations and Appeals, civil tax penalties, substantial collection matters, U.S. Tax Court proceedings, refund litigation, and criminal tax investigations.
Learn MoreCounsel on nonprofit governance, tax-exempt status and compliance, board and founder matters, charitable giving, fiduciary duties, and related federal tax issues.
Learn MoreCounsel on United States legal and federal tax matters involving international organizations, transactions, charitable activities, and individuals.
Learn MorePublications
Practical legal guidance on IRS examinations, Appeals, Tax Court proceedings, collection matters, penalties, and criminal tax investigations, together with selected practitioner-focused commentary.
Forthcoming Book
Governance, Fiduciary Duty, and Accountability in Tax-Exempt Organizations
By Chase Sizemore, JD, LLM
Nonprofit Stewards examines nonprofit governance, fiduciary duties, tax-exempt organizations, board oversight, donor stewardship, and institutional accountability.
Drawing upon decades of legal practice, advanced tax training, and firsthand experience founding and operating an international nonprofit organization, Nonprofit Stewards explores the legal and practical responsibilities of nonprofit leaders, directors, fiduciaries, and advisors.
The manuscript is currently undergoing professional line editing.
Federal Tax Controversy
An examination of personal liability for unpaid employment taxes, Fourth Circuit standards for responsibility and willfulness, IRS assessment procedures, limitations periods, payment credits, and federal court litigation.
Read ArticleFederal Tax Controversy
A practitioner-focused guide to preparing an effective administrative protest, developing the factual record, identifying disputed issues, presenting legal authorities, and positioning a federal tax controversy for resolution before the IRS Independent Office of Appeals.
Read ArticleNonprofit & Tax-Exempt Organizations
A practical examination of the new federal group-exemption regime, including eligibility requirements, central-organization responsibilities, subordinate organizations, annual reporting, and transition issues for existing group rulings.
ForthcomingFederal Tax Controversy
A practical guide to defending an IRS cryptocurrency examination, including basis reconstruction, Form 1099-DA reporting, wallet tracing, staking and DeFi issues, penalties, statutes of limitation, and procedural defenses.
Read ArticleArticles addressing IRS examinations, Appeals, Tax Court proceedings, collections, penalties, and criminal tax investigations.
Read ArticlesIn 2006, Chase Sizemore founded Teach Them To Fish Foundation, Inc., an international nonprofit organization supporting primary education in rural Cambodia and Uganda and serving more than 3,000 students. Two decades of responsibility for nonprofit governance, compliance, donor stewardship, contracting, budgeting, and international operations inform the firm's practical approach to nonprofit and tax-exempt organization matters.
Learn More About Teach Them To Fish Foundation and visit the Foundation's Facebook page.
Attorney Chase Sizemore
during humanitarian work at Kanyanga Primary School in Bukedea District, Uganda.
Preah Khol Primary School -- Opening Ceremony
Preay Vihear Province, Cambodia
Out of years spent building schools in Cambodia and Uganda came these memoirs, where the work of Teach Them To Fish Foundation became entangled with individual lives, unexpected obligations, and journeys no one had planned.
A Memoir of Cambodia, Uganda, and the Search for a Child Lost to War
The Road to Kitgum recounts Teach Them To Fish Foundation's work building primary schools in remote Cambodia and Uganda, with a focus on educating girls at risk for exploitation.
Established by Chase Sizemore in 2006, the Foundation began with a school for 380 children in Battambang Province, Cambodia. It later expanded into Uganda, where children faced poverty, disease, violence, and the aftermath of civil war.
At Kanyanga Primary School, a student's note leads Chase into the search for Akiki, a boy abducted years earlier by the Lord's Resistance Army and believed to be injured in an internally displaced persons camp near Kitgum. The search takes Chase through displacement camps and disputed territory in a dangerous rescue effort to find a child who had been taken by war and nearly lost to memory.
The Road to Kitgum is a story of compassion, courage, and the power of education to bring hope to children the world has too often forgotten.
Forthcoming Memoir
A Memoir of Cambodia, Mercy, and the Cost of Rescue
Where the Red Earth Broke continues the journey begun in The Road to Kitgum, returning to Cambodia and to the villages where building a school could begin with little more than a promise.
The memoir follows the building of Omaneash and O'Russey primary schools and the search for a remote jungle site that would become Preah Khol Primary School. Along the way, the work draws Chase deeper into the lives of children and families confronting poverty, exploitation, and the threat of human trafficking.
But the journey carries a personal cost. During a trip into the Cambodian jungle, Chase suffers a life-threatening medical collapse. What began as another effort to reach a village becomes a struggle to survive and, eventually, to make his way home.
The manuscript is currently undergoing copy editing.
Inquiries
Chase Counsel PLLC accepts inquiries from individuals, businesses, nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, estates, trusts, fiduciaries, accounting professionals, other counsel, and wealth managers concerning federal tax controversies, nonprofit and tax-exempt organization matters, cross-border matters involving United States law, and selected immigration and global mobility matters.
Preliminary referral discussions with attorneys, CPA firms, trust and estate professionals, and other professional advisors are welcomed.
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