About

Irina Goldberg is a senior tax attorney at Brotman Law, located in San Diego California.  Her practice involves representing clients in matters before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Franchise Tax Board (FTB), California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) and Employment Development Department (EDD). She defends individuals and business with serious tax problems and financial concerns in the areas of criminal tax, offshore accounts, tax appeals, audits, trust fund taxes, offer in compromises and more. 

Ms. Goldberg received her Master of Laws in Taxation (LL.M.) from USD School of Law and graduated magna cum laude from Whittier Law School where she received her Juris Doctorate (J.D.). At Whittier, she was awarded the Outstanding Graduate in Legal Writing by the faculty and received CALI awards recognizing top performance in her class for the areas of Federal Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation, and Advanced Legal Reasoning. Ms. Goldberg also served on the editorial board for the Whittier Law Review and took second place in the 9th Annual American Bar Association (ABA) Tax Challenge. She completed her undergraduate education in Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

Education 
• Master of Laws in Taxation: University of San Diego School of Law 
• Juris Doctorate: Whittier Law School 
• Bachelor of Arts: University of California, Santa Barbara 

Admitted to Practice before the Following Courts 
• Supreme Court of California 
• United States Tax Court 
• United States District Court for the Southern District of California 

Publications 
• “Hope For Low-Income Tax Returns: The Tax Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on the Working Poor,” 31 Whittier Law Review 105 (2009).