Sheryl PhillipsonSenior Enrolled Agent

I help individuals and businesses navigate complex tax matters, resolve tax disputes, and achieve lasting solutions.

Sheryl Phillipson, EA, is a Senior Enrolled Agent with nearly four decades of experience in tax preparation, tax planning, tax controversy, tax resolution, and taxpayer representation. Since beginning her career in 1988, she has dedicated herself to helping individuals, businesses, fiduciaries, and nonprofit organizations navigate complex federal, state, and international tax matters.
A native of Las Vegas, Nevada, Sheryl earned her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1988 and began preparing tax returns immediately after graduation. She worked on a per diem basis for Bradshaw Smith, CPA, from 1988 through 1993 while simultaneously building her own independent tax preparation practice, which she has maintained since 1988. This early combination of public accounting and entrepreneurship provided a strong foundation in tax compliance, tax planning, and client service.

In 1991, Sheryl became an Enrolled Agent, earning the highest credential awarded by the Internal Revenue Service to tax professionals. As an Enrolled Agent, she is federally authorized to represent taxpayers before the IRS in all administrative matters. Throughout her career, she has represented clients in examinations, audits, appeals, collection matters, installment agreements, offers in compromise, innocent spouse claims, penalty abatement requests, trust fund recovery penalty investigations, lien and levy matters, audit reconsiderations, and other complex tax controversies involving both federal and state taxing authorities.
From 1992 through 1999, Sheryl worked with Rodgers & Rodgers, where she expanded her expertise in tax preparation, planning, and consulting,

From 2016 through 2025, Sheryl served as Tax Manager for Randolph Law Firm, P.C., a tax resolution and tax bankruptcy law firm. In that role, she worked closely with attorneys, accountants, business owners, and individual taxpayers to develop and implement comprehensive tax strategies. Her responsibilities included tax consultations, tax planning, tax preparation, tax return review, and representation before the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities. She managed a wide range of tax controversy matters involving audits, appeals, collection actions, payroll tax liabilities, offers in compromise, installment agreements, bankruptcy-related tax issues, and other complex tax disputes.

In addition to her domestic tax practice, Sheryl developed experience in international tax compliance and reporting. She assisted businesses and individuals with foreign bank account reporting, offshore asset disclosures, international information return compliance, foreign business reporting obligations, foreign financial account examinations, voluntary disclosure programs, and other international tax matters. She also worked with clients facing foreign financial audits and reporting issues involving substantial domestic and international compliance concerns.

Today, Sheryl serves as a Senior Enrolled Agent with Wiggam Law, where she focuses on tax controversy, tax resolution, and tax compliance. Her work includes representing taxpayers before the IRS and state taxing authorities nationwide, resolving complex collection matters, audits, appeals, payroll tax issues, and high-stakes tax disputes. She works closely with clients to develop practical solutions that address both immediate concerns and long-term tax objectives.

With nearly forty years of experience, Sheryl has earned a reputation for combining technical tax expertise with practical problem-solving and strong taxpayer advocacy. Her extensive background in tax preparation, planning, controversy, resolution, bankruptcy-related tax matters, and international tax compliance has made her a trusted advisor to individuals, business owners, professionals, and families facing both routine and highly complex tax challenges.