Services

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CarrisLegal provides experienced legal counsel to clients on all matters arising from, federal, state and local tax laws. Our service areas include ad valorem, asset protection, consulting, controversy, corporate, franchise, income tax, state tax, insurance, international, IRS audit, mergers and acquisitions, partnership, personal, planning, property, real estate, and reorganizations. Our clients make up a broad spectrum of taxpayers including public and private companies, partnerships, nonprofit organizations, estates and trusts, individual taxpayers, and insurance companies.

We work closely with clients to reduce taxes associated with business activities and significant transactions, in the areas of tax review, compliance, reporting and controversy. We stay abreast of the ever-changing and complex tax environment so that we can alert our clients to new planning opportunities and compliance requirements, and to provide legal advice that is timely to our clients' business affairs. Serving individuals as well as small, emerging and middle market businesses and large, multinational corporations, we have the experience to design creative and practical solutions to mitigate taxes in complex business transactions.

We provide clients with representation in tax examinations/audits, protests to the IRS Office of Appeals, and in equivalent state and local appeals functions. We are admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court, U.S. District Courts, as well as state and local tax authorities and courts.

Planning for the accumulation, management and transfer of wealth in the most tax-efficient manner involves development and implementation of a myriad of strategies. CarrisLegal provides a full range of estate planning and probate services. We draft wills, trusts and restructure family businesses for management continuity and tax savings in future generations, as well as help individual and corporate executors and trustees administer decedents' estates and trusts efficiently and cost-effectively.

Our estate planning service not only includes the preparation of wills and trusts but also family partnerships, limited liability companies, grantor retained interest trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, sales to intentionally defective trusts, charitable trusts, life insurance trusts, qualified domestic trusts, offshore trusts, private annuities and other planning devices.

We also help trustees, executors and beneficiaries resolve a broad range of estate and trust disputes, many of which involve complex and sophisticated legal, tax and litigation issues.

CarrisLegal works with business leaders on site selection and multi-bid cost comparisons in order to procure specific non-statutory, discretionary credits and negotiated incentives and apply retroactively, as needed, for statutory incentives that might have been overlooked.

Our services are provided flexibly to assist companies regardless of the phase they are in – planning an expansion or a consolidation of facilities, or applying retroactively for entitlements. 

Our multidisciplinary approach brings together consultants knowledgeable about non-tax incentives with tax professionals specializing in state and local tax issues. Our detailed knowledge of state tax and incentive programs provides an edge in helping companies obtain greater financial assistance.

An outsourced legal counsel is a vital resource to start-up companies with no legal departments to even the most sophisticated, "best-in-class" in-house legal departments.  We use an outsourced business-centric, practical approach that provides a predictable and affordable legal team capable to assist you with your legal needs, when you need it, without any extra headcount.  Our minimal-overhead business model, allows the flexibility to work in your office alongside your team or work remotely to handle your day-to-day legal needs effectively.

Our outsourced business model allows our services to be customized to your individual needs yet still provide the legal services you need at an agreed upon, predictable and reasonable cost.