Education & Research · 501(c)(3)

Who we are

About us

Digital asset taxation sits at an awkward intersection. The technology is new, the tax law is old, and the people caught in between are ordinary taxpayers: investors with a few trades a year, retirees targeted by sophisticated fraud, and small businesses trying to follow rules that were never written with them in mind.

We were founded to close that gap. Our work runs on two tracks, carried out by two affiliated but legally separate organizations.

Digital Asset Tax Action

Digital Asset Tax Action is an Illinois nonprofit corporation recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Its mission is education and research: publishing accessible guides to digital asset taxation, producing original research on how reporting rules affect taxpayers in practice, and participating in the regulatory process through formal comment letters and public hearing testimony.

Digital Asset Tax Advocacy

Digital Asset Tax Advocacy is a social welfare organization described in Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. It exists to turn research into results. The organization advocates for specific federal legislation, engages directly with members of Congress and their staff, and mobilizes taxpayers to make their voices heard on digital asset tax policy.

Positions on legislation are taken by the affiliate, not by Digital Asset Tax Action. You can read about its campaigns in its own section of this website: visit Digital Asset Tax Advocacy

The two organizations share a mission and coordinate closely, but they are governed by separate boards, keep separate finances, and never commingle funds. Contributions to one are never used to support the activities of the other.

Leadership

Andrew Gordon, JD, CPA

Both organizations were founded by Andrew Gordon. Andrew Gordon is a tax attorney and CPA who has spent his career representing taxpayers in digital asset matters and has met extensively with congressional offices, Treasury, and the IRS on these issues.

  • Regulatory record. Andrew filed a formal comment letter on REG-105064-25 — the IRS and Treasury’s proposed rule on electronic furnishing of Form 1099-DA payee statements — and testified at the public hearing on those regulations on July 8, 2026. Both documents are public; the docket records are linked from our research page.
  • Cited in the trade press. Tax Notes Federal cited Andrew’s hearing remarks in its September 14, 2026 coverage of federal digital asset voluntary disclosure proposals — Nana Ama Sarfo, “Building a Useful Digital Asset Voluntary Disclosure Program,” Tax Notes Federal, Vol. 192 (Sept. 14, 2026), reporting that IRS officials have expressed interest in developing a disclosure program of their own, per Andrew’s July 8 hearing testimony.
  • Writes on digital asset tax policy at andrewgordontax.substack.com.
Outside these organizations, Andrew is the founder and owner of Gordon Law Group, Ltd. (gordonlaw.com), a for-profit law firm. Both organizations share office space with that firm at the Skokie address listed in our filings. This organization is governed by an independent board; it does not refer readers to, accept referral fees from, or share donor or subscriber data with that firm. Directors and officers recuse from any matter involving entities in which they hold an interest.

Each organization is governed by its own board of directors. How we keep the two entities separate — and how we document it — is laid out on our Transparency & Financials page.

Board of directors

Andrew Gordon
Founder & Director

Tax attorney and CPA. Testified before the IRS and Treasury on the proposed Form 1099-DA regulations in July 2026.

James Akmakjian
Director
Rafael Yakobi
Director

Additional directors and board photographs will be added as the boards are finalized.