Arizona Tax, Bankruptcy & Business Law Attorneys

Arizona Tax, Bankruptcy & Business Law Attorneys

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Tax, Estate Planning & Business Legal Services

Tax, Estate Planning & Business Legal Services

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Elder Law, Asset Protection & Long-Term Care

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  • 4325 Clients Represented
  • 2270 Tax Cases
  • 1745 Bankruptcy Cases
  • 25 Years Legal Experience

TRUSTED & EXPERIENCED LEGAL COUNSEL

25+ Years of Experience Providing Strategic Legal Solutions

For more than 25 years, Carr Law has helped individuals, families, and businesses navigate complex legal and financial challenges with experienced counsel focused on practical solutions and informed decisions.

Our attorneys provide guidance across tax law, bankruptcy, business law, estate planning, elder law, asset protection, and long-term care planning—helping clients understand their options and determine a clear path forward. Whether you are addressing an immediate legal problem or planning for what comes next, Carr Law brings experience across related areas of law to help protect your interests, your assets, and your future.



OUR PRACTICE AREAS



Tax Law & Resolution

Tax Law & Resolution

Tax issues can become complex when IRS disputes, unpaid liabilities, collection actions, or tax planning concerns affect your financial or business interests. Carr Law provides experienced legal counsel to help individuals and businesses understand their options, address complex tax matters, and plan for what comes next.

Move Forward With a Clear Tax Strategy →

Bankruptcy Law

Bankruptcy Law

When debt becomes unmanageable, bankruptcy can involve far more than filing paperwork. Chapter 7, Chapter 13, and Chapter 11 each involve different legal requirements, financial considerations, and consequences for individuals and businesses. Carr Law helps clients evaluate bankruptcy within the larger picture of debt, assets, income, creditors, and long-term financial objectives.

Your situation. Your options. Your legal path forward →

Debt & Settlement

Debt & Settlement

Debt problems can extend beyond the amount owed, affecting credit, assets, cash flow, business operations, and the ability to meet future obligations. Carr Law addresses debt negotiation, settlement, creditor issues, foreclosure-related concerns, and other legal strategies for resolving financial pressure while considering alternatives to bankruptcy when appropriate.

Build a Strategy Around the Debt →

Business Law

Business Law

Business decisions often carry legal, financial, and personal consequences that extend well beyond the immediate transaction or dispute. Carr Law provides legal guidance across business formation, structure, contracts, transactions, tax considerations, disputes, and other issues that arise as a business is created, operated, protected, or changed.

Strengthen the Legal Structure of Your Business →

Estate Planning

Estate Planning

Estate planning is more than deciding who receives assets. An effective plan can coordinate wills, trusts, tax considerations, asset ownership, beneficiary decisions, incapacity planning, and the transfer of wealth or property. Carr Law helps individuals and families put these legal pieces together into a plan designed around their circumstances, priorities, and future needs.

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Elder Law & Long-Term Care

Elder Law & Long-Term Care

Planning for later life can bring together healthcare decisions, long-term care, Medicaid and ALTCS considerations, guardianship, conservatorship, estate planning, and protection of assets. Carr Law helps individuals and families address these connected legal and financial issues before changing circumstances turn planning decisions into urgent ones.

Plan Ahead for Changing Care Needs →

Asset Protection & Wealth Planning

Asset Protection & Wealth Planning

Protecting what you have built requires more than a single legal document or financial decision. Asset protection can intersect with business structure, estate planning, tax strategy, trusts, ownership, creditor exposure, and long-term wealth preservation. Carr Law brings these areas together to help individuals, families, and business owners structure and protect assets with future risks and objectives in mind.

Protect What You’ve Built for What Comes Next →

YOUR LEGAL MATTER

Your Legal Path Forward

Your debt has become difficult to manage.

Your debt has become difficult to manage.

Your financial situation can change quickly when debt becomes difficult to manage. Carr Law helps you understand the legal issues surrounding your circumstances, evaluate the options available, and identify a practical path toward greater financial stability.

Find Your Path Forward →

Explore Debt Relief Options
You’re dealing with the IRS or a tax issue

You’re dealing with the IRS or a tax issue

Your tax situation deserves a clear understanding of what is happening and what can be done. Carr Law helps you address IRS and tax matters, evaluate your legal options, and move toward a strategy focused on resolution.

Explore Your Resolution →

Resolve Your Tax Debt
You need to plan before a problem develops.

You need to plan before a problem develops.

Your financial decisions today can shape your tax position and opportunities tomorrow. Carr Law helps you anticipate legal and tax considerations, evaluate important decisions, and build a forward-looking strategy before problems develop.

Plan Your Next Move →

Plan Your Tax Strategy
Your business has a legal or tax matter.

Your business has a legal or tax matter.

Your business decisions can affect far more than the immediate issue in front of you. Carr Law helps you consider the legal, tax, ownership, liability, and structural implications of important decisions while keeping your broader business objectives in view.

Move Your Business Forward →

Plan Your Business Structure
Your need to plan for what happens next.

Your need to plan for what happens next.

Your plans for the future should reflect what you want to protect, provide, and preserve. Carr Law helps you bring those priorities together through thoughtful planning for your assets, family, responsibilities, and legacy.

Begin Your Legacy Plan →

Build Your Estate Plan
You need to plan for aging or care

You need to plan for aging or care

Your future care needs can affect your family, finances, assets, and important legal decisions. Carr Law helps you prepare for those possibilities, understand the planning considerations, and create a clearer path for the years ahead.

Prepare for What Comes Next →

Plan for Long-Term Care
You need to protect what you've built

You need to protect what you've built

Your assets represent what you have built and what you may want to preserve for the future. Carr Law helps you identify potential exposure, consider proactive legal strategies, and develop a protection approach aligned with your longer-term interests.

Protect What You've Built →

Protect Your Assets

LEGAL GUIDANCE FOR COMPLEX DECISIONS

Understanding What Shapes Your Legal Options

See the Full Picture

Legal and financial problems can be connected. Understanding how the circumstances, obligations, and priorities fit together can help clarify what matters most.

Identify What Matters

Not every detail affects the legal picture in the same way. Focusing on the facts, obligations, deadlines, and circumstances that matter most helps clarify the issues that need attention.

Understand the Choices

Different circumstances can lead to different legal paths. Understanding the available options, their requirements, and their potential consequences can help you make an informed decision about what comes next.

Build the Next Step

Once the key issues and available options are clear, the next step is to determine what needs to happen, what information is needed, and how to move forward.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Some taxpayers just don’t have any ability to pay their back taxes. This status is not for all and the taxing authorities of course require proof to substantiate such hardship claims. If after going through the taxpayer current monthly income and applying them to national standards and local standards and the taxpayers net monthly income is zero or negative then the taxpayer could qualify for currently not collectible status. The taxing authorities will look into the status to see if anything has changed at least yearly or bi-yearly.

Contact Carr Law today to assist you with your tax liability including assistance with seeing if you qualify for hardship status and if so having you placed on hardship status.

A garnishment is where a creditor, such as the IRS, can send a notice to your employer to pay your wages to the creditor. The IRS can do this without a lawsuit or judgment unlike other creditors. Now the IRS does have to have the tax be assessed and has to provide you with your full collection due process rights but after this they can take actions to garnish your wages.

At Carr Law Firm we can meet with you to see what can be done to quickly stop the garnishment.

The Internal Revenue Service and State and Local Taxing Authorities have standards and forms whereby they can assess the ability to pay of the taxpayers. These forms typically request to see what assets the taxpayers have, the taxpayer’s current monthly income, and the taxpayer’s current monthly expenses. With this information the taxing agencies can determine the ability and the amount of the taxpayer to pay. The Internal Revenue Service and its agents and employees have to generally comply with the collection standards applicable in the Internal Revenue Manual.

At the Carr Law we have the ability, knowledge and have been able to evaluate the taxpayer’s financial situation and the applicable guidelines and then make arguments for the taxpayer as to the appropriate acceptable amount that the taxpayer could afford and the taxing authority could accept in reasonable payments.

The Internal Revenue Service has the power to levy (garnish/seize) bank accounts, wages, payments from 3rd parties owed to the taxpayer, 401K accounts, stock brokerage accounts. The IRS has more power than most, if not all creditors, as there are very few exemptions or protected assets from which they can seize; basically anything is free game to the IRS to levy/seize. For example the IRS can levy the majority of your wages when most other creditors can only levy a portion, i.e. in many states only 25%, also generally social security is exempt from levy, however the IRS can levy social security benefits.

At Carr Law if you are wanting to avoid a tax levy or even under a current tax levy, we can consult with you and come up with the best plan of action to avoid any future levies and/or stop current levies.

The Internal Revenue Service has the power to levy (garnish/seize) bank accounts, wages, payments from 3rd parties owed to the taxpayer, 401K accounts, stock brokerage accounts. The IRS has more power than most, if not all creditors, as there are very few exemptions or protected assets from which they can seize; basically anything is free game to the IRS to levy/seize. For example the IRS can levy the majority of your wages when most other creditors can only levy a portion, i.e. in many states only 25%, also generally social security is exempt from levy, however the IRS can levy social security benefits.

At Carr Law if you are wanting to avoid a tax levy or even under a current tax levy, we can consult with you and come up with the best plan of action to avoid any future levies and/or stop current levies.

Nee to change test for "file" Tax problems can be very overwhelming. Navigating the “waters” of tax law and civil tax procedure can be very complicated. Whether you received a notice from the Internal Revenue Service because you owe back taxes or if you have state tax problems and your business has sales tax problems.

Our Carr Law Firm attorneys at will meet with you to discuss how to help you or your business with these tax problems and all your Federal and State Tax Problems.

At Carr Law we have the tax preparation experience in filing basic tax returns all the way through to difficult tax returns. At Carr Law we have effectively prepared the following tax returns: 1120 (C-Corp Tax Returns) 1065 (Partnership Returns) , 1120S (S-Corp Returns) , 1041 (Fiduciary Income Tax Returns) , 1040 (Individual Income Tax Returns), 706 (Estate Tax Returns) 941 (Payroll Tax Returns) 940 (Federal Unemployment) and state tax returns, including sales tax and transaction privilege tax returns.

We can assist taxpayers in reviewing their tax returns and see if they were prepared correctly and if not, then amend the tax returns to make sure they are correct.

Tax planning is an important aspect of family wealth and retirement planning. Regardless of your background, the type of work you do, or your economic status, planning for your future and the futures of your children is something you must do throughout your life.

Our Attorneys have advanced degrees and, on average, over 15 years of experience. We pride ourselves on creating strong, lasting relationships with our clients so we can help you as your needs and circumstances change. Our services include: Personal tax return preparation Succession planning Charitable giving Executive compensation Family estate and gift planning Retirement planning Year-end tax planning.

Tax planning is an important aspect of family wealth and retirement planning. Regardless of your background, the type of work you do, or your economic status, planning for your future and the futures of your children is something you must do throughout your life.

Our Attorneys have advanced degrees and, on average, over 15 years of experience. We pride ourselves on creating strong, lasting relationships with our clients so we can help you as your needs and circumstances change. Our services include: Personal tax return preparation Succession planning Charitable giving Executive compensation Family estate and gift planning Retirement planning Year-end tax planning.

The Internal Revenue Code requires every employer to withhold Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, and income taxes from the wages of its employees. The portion of Social Security and Medicare taxes withheld from the employees’ wages, along with an additional contribution of Social Security tax made by the employer, are commonly referred to as "Payroll Taxes" or "Employment Taxes." The combination of Payroll Taxes actually withheld from an employee's wages (net of the employer's contribution), plus the income taxes that are actually withheld from an employee's wages, are collectively referred to as "Withholding Taxes" or "Trust Fund Taxes."

The attorneys at Carr Law work tirelessly to keep your business operating and to solve your payroll tax liability. We help you understand your payroll tax obligations, help you solve your existing problem, and help you meet your future Payroll Tax reporting and payment requirements.

For those who qualify, Chapter 7 provides a Fresh Start to individuals. Chapter 7 wipes away most debts, including credit cards, payday loans, repossession deficiency balances, most judgments, some tax obligations, and personal loans. Most debtors retain or keep most of their assets and personal possessions after filing chapter 7. State and Federal law dictate what individuals are entitled to keep. Our Attorneys will advise you what property you get to keep and what property, if any, is at risk. Typically, debtors keep their homes, cars, clothes, furniture, wedding rings, 401(k), IRA, and personal possessions.

Let us help you make a rationale decision and instruct you how to leave your home. With our Tax Attorneys, we will also let you know of the tax consequences of losing a home.

Our Attorneys have worked out several agreements that benefits all parties involved while avoiding unnecessary legal expenses and conflict.

Due to the economy, many local businesses are facing tough times. Many have borrowed money to keep their business afloat. Many of these loans have high interest rates and cumbersome terms. Chapter 11 bankruptcy is a form of bankruptcy reorganization available to individuals, corporations and partnerships. It has no limits on the amount of debt, as Chapter 13 does. It is the usual choice for large businesses seeking to restructure their debt. Individuals usually file Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 rather than Chapter 11. The debtor usually remains in possession of its assets, and operates the business under the supervision of the court and for the benefit of creditors. The debtor in possession is a fiduciary for the creditors.

For those who do not qualify for Chapter 7 or for those trying to save their home from foreclosure may be able to file a Chapter 13, which is commonly known as “reorganization”. A Chapter 13 typically lasts only from 3 to 5 years and consists of the debtor making regular monthly payments to the Trustee assigned to his or her case. The most common question is “What are my payments going to be?” Our skilled Attorneys will analyze your information and then determine the smallest payment legally possible. However, the actual amount of the payment will typically not be known until the debtor files for relief under Chapter 13. But, rest assured that the payment will not be more than you can afford. Our Attorneys will work with you to assess a fair and reasonable monthly budget. Typically, your payment to the Trustee will not exceed the amount that is left over each month, according to your budget.

Our Attorneys understand the law, which allows us to help you in the complicated world of Bankruptcy.

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