No. While most tax attorneys have a great deal of knowledge regarding tax matters, most tax lawyers have little to no experience with criminal cases. The overwhelming majority of tax attorneys handle civil matters such as tax planning, tax return preparation, civil tax appeal meetings and tax collection.
These lawyers seldom if ever go to federal court and generally they have virtually no experience in conducting a criminal trial of any kind. A criminal tax attorney is a lawyer that concentrates his law practice on defending taxpayers from charges of criminal tax violations. True criminal tax lawyers have both a great deal of knowledge regarding the tax laws and at the same time have experience in conducting criminal trials before a judge and jury. Unfortunately, as a result of the large number of lawyers the internet reflects more and more criminal lawyers holding themselves out to be criminal tax lawyers despite a lack of knowledge of tax law. Also, more and more tax lawyers are holding themselves out to be criminal tax lawyers when they have little to no experience with conducting a federal criminal jury trial.