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Charles A Ray Jr.

4.9
21 reviews
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Rating: 9.2

Licensed for 47 years

Tax Lawyer at Washington, DC
Practice Areas: Tax, Contracts & Agreements, Business

1001 16th Street NW, Washington, DC

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About Charles

Biography

Former IRS Attorney Helping Businesses & Individuals In The US & Abroad. Call For Your Consultation.

Former IRS Attorney Helping Businesses & Individuals In The US & Abroad. Call For Your Consultation.

Former IRS Attorney Helping Businesses & Individuals In The US & Abroad. Call For Your Consultation.

Former IRS Attorney Helping Businesses & Individuals In The US & Abroad. Call For Your Consultation.

Practice Areas

3

Practice Areas

Tax 80%

We work with individuals and corporations in resolving tax issues. We litigate cases before the United States Tax Court. We perform business legal audits. We provide general counsel services in all areas of business operation and management.

80%
Business 10%

Charles Ray is experienced at performing legal audits of small to medium sized businesses, and with handling legal compliance issues related to business operations.

10%
Contracts and Agreements 10%

Charles Ray regularly negotiates, drafts, and/or reviews contracts for a variety of business transactions and relationships.

10%

Fees and Rates

Cost

Free Consultation

$0 first 30 minutes

Payment Methods

  • Cash
  • Check
  • Credit Card

Awards

Client's Choice
Client's Choice
2015
Silver Client Champion
AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating

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Client's Choice 2015

Silver Client Champion

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Licenses

Licensed in Maryland for 16 years

State: Maryland

Acquired: 2009

Active

No misconduct found

Licensed in District of Columbia for 36 years

State: District of Columbia

Acquired: 1989

Good Standing

No misconduct found

Licensed in North Carolina for 47 years

State: North Carolina

Acquired: 1978

Suspended- Administrative

No misconduct found

Location

The Tax Law Firm of Charles A. Ray, Jr.

(202) 824-8123

Fax

1001 16th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20036

charlesraylaw.com/
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Charles A Ray Jr.'s Reviews

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Practice Areas
Tax (16) Debt Collection (2) Debt Settlement (2) Business (1) Corporate & Incorporation (1) Lawsuits & Disputes (1) Real Estate (1) Social Security Disability (1)
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Case Results (16) Recommendation (10) Practice Area Knowledge (7) Responsiveness (7) Advocacy (5) General Knowledge (5) Cost of Services (4) Professionalism (4) Character & Conduct (3) Payment Plans (2) Communication Style (1) Punctuality (1)

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Posted by Mildred | April 13, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Tax

outstanding, excellent, superb brilliant and personable tax attorney

Mr Ray really knows his field. From the beginning he lets you know what your liability will possibly be and then he works relentlessly to attain that goal. He literally saved me over $300,000 in taxes, penalties and late fees, and thus saved my home. Additionally his fees are reasonable. He treat...s individuals whom he works with as long time friends, rather than just clients, and he has a great professional relationship with the IRS which takes the stress out of negotiations. Mr. Ray is truly one of the best lawyers I have ever met. I am extremely grateful to him and to the individual who recommended him to me.

Posted by Dwayne | October 11, 2016 | Hired Attorney | Tax

Knows the DC Tax Law system

I waited a year to write my review, because like anything it is about the long game not the short game when it comes to dealing with taxes. I didn't want to praise someone for temporarily getting DC Tax off my back only for them to come back later and harass me again. If your dealing with DC taxe...s Charles Ray is your attorney and let me tell you why. Several years ago, I was an Army Reservist "deployed" to Washington DC to reinforce a key position requiring additional personnel not otherwise available. When you "deploy", you deploy from a Home of Record. In this case it was from Ohio. Your still responsible for paying for state taxes to the state your deployed from. So it would be obviously burdensome to be taxed by additional states if I were deployed to location outside of Ohio, which was the case. For two years, my residence of choice was in fact a Washington, DC address since base housing was not available. That doesn't sound like a problem... Well several years after the fact, I get mail from DC saying that I did not pay my taxes and I needed to pay X taxes unless I respond back. I responded back with all the info showing that I should not be taxed per their own laws. I got more letters. I sent more response and even ensuring delivery of documents via mail and email. Forget calling them.... no one has that kind of time. Anyways it turned into harassment at some point. I had properly responded via several methods with zero response back, just received escalating snail mail threats that conflicted with each other's time frame for response. Not once was there acknowledgement that I even sent a response to DC. It was fine that they questioned whether I should have paid tax or not, but not fine that they were unwilling to review the facts being presented. Being military with a security clearance to maintain, this essentially becomes blackmail to us. If we don't pay, they can impact our security clearance and livelihoods because paying our obligations is an indication of trustworthiness. DC clearly had no intent of treating me fairly, so I was forced to hire an attorney at my expense because I had to do something that would not allow them to ignore my responses. The tax with penalties was staggeringly high in a very short time period. So I go online looking for an attorney. I got some calls from national networks but no one really knew anything about DC until I called Charles Ray. He was the only attorney I spoke to that knew anything specifically about how DC taxes worked. I hired him. He had it handled in a couple of days because he knew exactly who he needed to talk to. He has professional working relationships established in DC versus other lawyers I spoke to who never even worked with the DC government. Most importantly, he never made it my problem to figure it all out. So a year later, I still have not heard a word from the DC government so it is safe to say that Charles Ray hit this one out of the park. The harassment instantly ended with no more threats to harm me financially for income that was never their right to tax.

Posted by anonymous | June 23, 2015 | Tax

IRS Tax Resolution

Attorney Ray walked me through the entire Tax resolution/OIC process. As a result of his expertise and guidance, what began as an overwhelming/daunting situation ended in a nearly stress-free successful resolution of a 79k tax bill (resolved for less than 10%). Attorney Ray not only met my expect...ations, he far exceeded them!

Posted by William | May 08, 2018 | Hired Attorney | Tax

HIred For A Tax Matter

Mr. Ray gets poor rating from me. I hired him to help reduce a tax matter. He charged me $5,000 and did very little work. I was forced to complete IRS forms myself and they were repeatedly rejected and returned for more information. Completing Tax forms is what I hired him to do. I was hoping he co...uld reduce the taxes and penalties due. Ray did absolutely nothing. After paying him $5,000 I got nothing. I was hoping he would at least negogiate a payment plan which I finally requested. I heard no more from him and now I'm dealing with IRS on my own. I do not recommend this attorney.

Charles Ray

Replied last May 02, 2018

I have no record of this client and am puzzled by why, if what he is saying is true, he did not follow up with me if only to request a refund.

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Experience

Rating:  9.2 (Superb)

Honors

2025

AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell

2021

AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell

2020

AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell

2019

AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell

2018

AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell

2017

AV Preeminent 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell

2016

Outstanding Performance Award, Office of The Chief Counsel

2014

Outstanding Performance Reward, Office of The Chief Counsel - IRS

1988

Executive of the Year Award, National Loan Servicenter

Work Experience

1996 - Present

Owner, The Law Firm of Charles A Ray, Jr.

1996 - 1997

General Counsel, Black Human Resources Network

1978 - 1986

Senior Trial Attorney, Internal Revenue Service, Office Of Associate Chief Counsel (International)

Associations

1996 - 1997

District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce

Chairman of the Political Action Committee

Sample of Legal Cases

Daphne Jones v. Edward C. Mazique

Winning argument: case rerversed and remanded.

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Education

1978

University of North Carolina School of Law

JD - Juris Doctor

1974

Haverford College

BA - Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude

Speaking Engagements

N/A

Directory Liability Services

501 3C

N/A

D.C. Chamber of Commerce

Unemployment Compensation Cases

Publications

1978

North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation Export Amendments Act

1978

North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation Managing Editor

Languages

English

Activity

1

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