Scott A. Knott

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Mr. Knott practices exclusively in the area of tax whistleblower claims. In July of 2007, Mr. Knott co-founded the tax group at Lynam Knott P.A. and thereafter filed the first of many submissions with the IRS Whistleblower Office that exceed a billion dollars. He represents hundreds of whistleblowers before the IRS and in the U.S. Tax Court, and has successfully obtained tens of millions of dollars of awards from government for his clients. Mr. Knott’s practice before the IRS includes making submissions to the IRS Whistleblower Office, handling communications with the IRS through all phases of a whistleblower claim, and ultimately the filing of appeals of IRS award determinations in the U.S. Tax Court.

Mr. Knott previously handled tax disputes from the audit level through the Appeals level, in addition to litigation in the U.S. Tax Court and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, on behalf of some of the world’s largest companies and foreign governments. Mr. Knott also has experience with matters that involve tax evasion, fraud and other tax crimes, and has dealt with the IRS Criminal Investigation Division and Department of Justice on these matters. A graduate of Georgetown University School of Law and the University of Miami, Mr. Knott was previously a management committee co-chair of the Tax Controversy Subpractice Group of Baker & McKenzie’s North American Tax Practice Group, which was ranked as one of the top five tax litigation practices in the United States by Chambers & Partners USA, 2007 edition, and was a Tax Partner at The Ferraro Law Firm. Mr. Knott is a frequent speaker at tax conferences and regularly quoted on tax whistleblower issues in tax publications such as: Tax Analysts, Tax Notes Today; BNA, Daily Tax Report; CCH, Federal Tax Weekly; as well as mainstream media such as the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News. Mr. Knott is the Chairman of the Miami Chapter of the Federal Bar Association – Tax Section and is actively involved in Sports Car Racing.