On April 6, 2026, the FBI released its 2025 Internet Crime Report, which states that in 2025 the Internet Crime Complaint Center received 1,088,597 complaints of cyber-enabled crimes that cost Americans almost $21 billion. The largest number of complaints involved cryptocurrency, where there were 181,565 complaints involving more than $11 billion in losses.
Philipp Behrendt is a Principal at Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez P.C., licensed in California as well as in Germany and assists in advising clients in civil and criminal tax controversies as well as international money laundering investigations stemming from tax avoidance structures. He also focuses on the technical aspects involved in advising voluntary disclosures in connection with DeFis, NFTs, and other crypto assets. Philipp is a Liaison to the Young Lawyer Committee for the ABA Tax Section’s Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties Committee and served on the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s Barristers Board of Governors from 2022 to 2023. Philipp is the Chair of the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s Tax Section and the Blockchain and Web3 Law Section.
For more information, please contact Philipp Behrendt at behrendt@taxlitigator.com
TAXLITIGATOR - Tax Controversy (Civil & Criminal) Report 
Leave a comment