T. Keith Fogg
Clinical Professor of Law, Emeritus
Professor Fogg directs the Federal Tax Clinic at the Legal Services Center where he serves as a clinical professor of law. He joined the Harvard faculty in 2017 after teaching at Villanova Law School for a decade. He got the tax clinic at Harvard off the ground in 2015 and 2016 while serving as a visiting professor. Prior to teaching at Villanova he worked for over 30 years with the Office of Chief Counsel, IRS. Professor Fogg received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary, his J.D. from the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law and his M.L.T. in tax from the College of William and Mary Marshall Wythe School of Law. He developed a course for the Georgetown LLM program, Federal Taxation of Bankruptcy and Workouts, which he taught there for 15 years as an adjunct. He has also taught as an adjunct professor at William and Mary and University of Richmond law schools and as a visiting professor at University of Arizona. He is a national authority on tax procedure especially in the area of collection and bankruptcy law as it relates to tax. He co-authors a blog with Professor Les Book, procedurallytaxing.com, which focuses on current tax procedure issues. Fogg served as the editor of the ABA Tax Section publication “Effectively Representing Your Client before the IRS” for the 5th, 6th and 7th Editions. He authors the collection chapters in “IRS Practice and Procedure” created by Michael Saltzman and currently edited by Les Book. He was chosen as the IRS Chief Counsel Robert H. Jackson National Attorney of the Year in 2007 and the ABA Tax Section Janet R. Spragens Pro Bono Award winner in 2015. He is a past chair of the ABA Tax Section Pro Bono and Tax Clinics Committee a past council member of the Section and will begin a term as Vice-Chair for publications in August 2018.
Education
- B.A. College of William and Mary, 1974
- J.D. University of Richmond School of Law, 1977
- LL.M. College of William and Mary School of Law, 1982
Recent Publications
- Keith Fogg, Excuses, Excuses: Which Ones Will Work, 24 J. Tax Prac. & Proc. 37 (2022).
- Keith Fogg & Caitlin Hird, Pro Se Precedent in the U.S. Tax Court: A Case for Amicus Briefs, 23 Houston Bus. & Tax L. J. 1 (2022).
- Keith Fogg, The Rooms Where it Happened, 20 Pitt. Tax Rev. 95 (2022).
- Keith Fogg, Revisiting the Ten Deadly Sins Created in the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act, 20 Pitt. Tax Rev. 241 (2022).
- T. Keith Fogg, Pyramiding Employment Taxes and Government Remedies at Court 40 ABA Tax Times 23 (2021).