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Of the Fortune 1000 trust Ryan
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Active clients and counting
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Global tax services provided
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Multidisciplinary experts
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Annual tax savings earned worldwide
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Recovered in second-pass reviews
Using decades of experience and proprietary technology, we dive deep into your tax operations to identify costly gaps. We analyze your data to uncover hidden opportunities and provide fast, practical solutions that eliminate gaps, reduce your tax burden, and drive better performance.
Drawing on 35 years of exclusive tax focus, we quantify hidden inefficiencies and build a clear business case for improvement. Our roadmap enhances efficiency, protects profit, and positions your organization for long-term success.
Moving beyond standard compliance, we align your team, processes, and technology for lasting results. By combining expert insight with practitioner-built technology, we transform your tax function into a strategic asset, automating manual tasks and freeing your team to focus on growth.
How We Work
Capabilities
Technology
Compliance
Tax departments spend most of their time on compliance—preparing returns, maintaining records, and responding to notices—leaving little room for strategic planning. Our experts take on the operational burden of tax administration, handling the repetitive, time-intensive work, so your team can focus on other high-value initiatives. As the world’s only scale specialist in business tax, we apply proven methodologies for managing multijurisdictional compliance requirements while reducing costs, errors, and audit exposure.
Our approach adapts to your specific needs, whether you need full-service outsourcing or targeted support for specific tax disciplines. We provide alternative compliance arrangements, including managed audits and negotiated reporting procedures, alongside professional audit representation and expert tax determination research. By bridging the gap between tax complexity and operational clarity, we give you the confidence needed to transform your tax function into a strategic asset.
Consulting
Recovery
Ryan has secured billions in combined annual tax savings for clients worldwide. We identify tax recovery opportunities that others miss and fight strategically for every dollar, ensuring no issue or opportunity for recovery goes unrealized. Where others stop at surface-level data, our multidisciplinary team digs deeper into the same periods and tax types to consistently deliver substantially higher recoveries.
We manage audits from beginning to end, minimizing client burden while building data-centric cases for favorable outcomes. From informal conferences to formal legal appeals, we resolve tax controversies quickly and professionally—and when disputes require extended defense, we stay in the fight until it’s won.
Advocacy
Legal
We’re committed to delivering more than just tax results. We build trusted partnerships through clear communication, responsive support, and a tailored approach powered by top talent and smart technology.
We’re committed to delivering more than just tax results. We build trusted partnerships through clear communication, responsive support, and a tailored approach powered by top talent and smart technology.
We empower our people with the tools, trust, and autonomy they need to do their best work. By combining human expertise with the right technology, we give our teams the freedom to focus on making an impact and support to grow their careers.
We empower our people with the tools, trust, and autonomy they need to do their best work. By combining human expertise with the right technology, we give our teams the freedom to focus on making an impact and support to grow their careers.
We respect the critical role tax authorities play in sustaining our communities and ensuring a fair system. We’re committed to professionalism, timely collaboration, and legal integrity in every interaction.
Strategic tax planning and transaction structuring
Total performance assessments and benchmarking
Business reorganization and risk mitigation planning
Tax automation and workflow optimization
Full-service compliance outsourcing
Alternative compliance arrangements, including managed audits and negotiated reporting procedures
Professional audit representation
Expert tax determination and research
Voluntary disclosure support
Legislative and regulatory advocacy across federal, state, and local levels
Strategic business planning incorporating tax policy developments
Alternative filing positions to minimize tax liability
Proactive policy engagement anticipating regulatory changes
Judicial advocacy establishing favorable tax precedents
Staffed by experienced government affairs professionals, we have a strong record of shaping legislative, regulatory, and judicial outcomes that impact tax policy. Our team maintains constructive, professional relationships with taxing authorities and policymakers at the federal, state, provincial, and local levels. This focus allows us to serve as your tax advocate, free from cumbersome regulatory constraints or audit committee limitations.
Through our advocacy, we help change the trajectory of high-stakes tax issues by engaging early with decision-makers to correct unfair interpretations and promote consistent, transparent tax policy. Our advocacy experts closely monitor emerging legislative proposals and relevant judicial decisions to anticipate changes before they escalate, providing proactive guidance that reduces risk and uncertainty. Whether through legislative engagement, administrative guidance, or resolving complex disputes, our professionals work to secure fair, well-supported outcomes on your behalf.
Our tax consulting services go beyond standard compliance to improve your overall tax performance through innovative strategies that address underlying issues and errors. We leverage tax recovery as a launchpad for deeper consulting, identifying opportunities to minimize controllable costs, improve operational efficiency, and drive lasting business growth. Acting as a seamless extension of your tax function, we align high-level advisory with precise execution to fix the root cause of business tax challenges.
With 35 years of exclusive tax focus, we bring extensive practitioner knowledge while embedding workflow optimization and automation to transform your tax function from a reactive cost center into a proactive lever for business growth.
Our proprietary software is engineered to simplify and optimize every part of the tax lifecycle. Designed by tax experts, each solution thinks like a practitioner—solving real-world challenges in property tax, unclaimed property, transfer pricing, and indirect tax. We embed expertise into every product, giving your team smarter tools to manage burdens and uncover opportunities.
We combine deep practitioner knowledge with intuitive, AI-enabled technology to boost accuracy, efficiency, and savings. Every solution is rigorously tested and backed by expert oversight—helping your team avoid costly penalties, streamline compliance, and reduce risk. We bridge the gap between complexity and clarity, turning tax into a strategic advantage.
End-to-end audit representation from initial notice through final resolution
Refund identification across property, income, and indirect tax overpayments
Audit sampling analysis to challenge assessor methodologies
Voluntary disclosure programs with negotiated penalty relief
Practitioner-built software supports real-world tax needs
Automated workflows eliminate manual processes and errors
SOC 2-certified security protects sensitive tax data
Seamless enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrates to fit your system
Continuous updates reflect changing tax regulations and real-time updates
Ryan Legal Services, PLLC is a next-generation law firm working with Ryan to provide end-to-end tax solutions. Ryan Legal Services is focused on providing taxpayers with access to justice and effective legal services. By integrating consulting and legal services, we provide taxpayers with access to tax solutions that are easy to engage, high in quality, and responsive.
Years of dedication to our purpose
We are the only scale specialist in business tax
K+
Multidisciplinary experts
We have an exceptional depth of expertise and experience
$B+
Annual tax savings earned worldwide
Our clients only pay when we deliver savings for their business
Ryan Legal Services, PLLC is licensed as an Alternative Business Structure law firm by the Arizona Supreme Court, license number 70196. Richard Nearhood is our Designated Principal and an Arizona-licensed attorney. The address of Ryan Legal Services and Mr. Nearhood is MAX at Kierland, 16220 N Scottsdale Road, Suite 650, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254. Ryan Legal Services is wholly owned by Ryan, LLC and utilizes the consulting and administrative support services of Ryan, LLC. With client consent, Ryan Legal Services refers matters where we are not licensed to practice law to local tax attorneys to provide legal advice and representation under a co-counsel agreement that specifies the assignment of responsibilities.
Your business deserves a tax strategy that’s built to win. At Ryan, we combine elite expertise with innovative, purpose-built technology to ensure you pay only what you owe and nothing more—empowering you to reinvest capital into your business, fuel growth, and strengthen competitive advantage.
