[2] A 1925 report of his early activities with the board read as follows: Percy Phillips of Southhampton, who was appointed last March by President Coolidge as one of the 15 members of the United States Board of Tax Appeals upon recommendation of Congressman Bacon and Senator Wadsworth has returned to Washington after absence of three months in the Northwest and on the Pacific Coast.
The division left Washington on May 2 and held hearings at Milwaukee, St. Paul, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
At each of these cities the members were called upon to speak before organizations of business men, luncheon clubs, chambers of commerce, legal associations and societies of public accountants upon the function and work of the tax board.
[4]Phillips was reappointed for a 10-year term in June 1926,[2] but resigned in 1931 to form a new law firm with fellow board member James S.Y.
[5] On August 15, 1920, Phillips married Margaret Richards Terrell, a nurse, of Riverhead, New York,[6] with whom he had three daughters and a son.