Ayar Law

Focus and practice areas

Ayar Law works in one field: tax. The firm is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with a second office in Grand Rapids, and it takes matters for individuals and businesses in Michigan and across the United States.

Its lawyers appear before the Internal Revenue Service, the Michigan Department of Treasury, and federal and state courts, including the United States Tax Court. That range of forums matters, because a tax problem can start as correspondence and end up as litigation.

The named services cover unpaid tax balances, unfiled returns, IRS audits and appeals, tax disputes and litigation, criminal tax defense, innocent spouse relief, tax preparer defense, and foreign asset reporting. On the state side the firm handles sales tax, use tax, withholding tax, excise tax, and Michigan Tax Tribunal matters. The site is clear that Michigan property tax issues fall outside what it takes on.

How the team is built

Six attorneys are identified by name on the firm's pages. Venar Ayar founded Ayar Law in 2012 and carries the title of Founder and Partner. Wendy Eisenshtadt Begres is listed as CEO and Partner.

Three attorneys hold the title of Senior Tax Attorney: Agustin Arbulu, Erik VanderWeyden, and Hayden Leithauser. Arjan Malushi is listed as a Tax Attorney. The firm also lists a former IRS revenue officer who now works as an enrolled agent.

The founder's own practice

Venar Ayar handles IRS and Michigan tax matters for both businesses and individuals. His stated work includes tax audits, back tax settlements, payment plans, lien and levy releases, criminal tax fraud defense, and foreign bank account compliance.

Before Ayar Law, he worked at RJS Law and practiced on his own in metro Detroit. In my opinion, that combination is a useful signal for a reader trying to judge depth: solo practice teaches you to run a matter end to end, and a tax-focused firm teaches you where the procedural traps sit.

What a tax matter usually involves

Some general context helps here, since tax procedure is unfamiliar to most people who suddenly need it. None of what follows describes outcomes at this firm. It describes how these categories of matter typically move.

An IRS examination normally opens with a notice identifying the tax years and the items under review. The taxpayer or their representative responds with documents: bank records, receipts, mileage logs, books from the business. If the examiner proposes changes the taxpayer disputes, the next stop is usually the IRS Independent Office of Appeals, where a settlement officer who did not run the audit reviews the file.

Unpaid balances follow a different track. Collection alternatives include installment agreements, offers in compromise, and currently-not-collectible status, each with its own financial disclosure requirements. Liens and levies are collection tools, and releasing them generally turns on either resolving the underlying balance or showing the collection action creates hardship.

Where litigation enters

The United States Tax Court hears disputes before the tax is paid, which is one reason a statutory notice of deficiency carries a firm filing deadline. Missing that window changes a taxpayer's options considerably. State matters in Michigan can run through the Michigan Tax Tribunal instead, on its own timetable and rules.

Criminal tax defense sits apart from all of this. Those cases involve IRS Criminal Investigation and, eventually, federal prosecutors, and the questions turn on intent rather than arithmetic. A firm that handles both civil controversy and criminal exposure can recognise early when a civil audit is drifting toward something else.

Foreign accounts and reporting

Foreign asset reporting appears in both the firm's service list and in the founder's own description of his work. This area covers FBAR filings and related disclosures for taxpayers holding accounts outside the United States.

Penalties in this area are calculated differently from ordinary tax penalties, and the distinction between a willful and non-willful failure to file drives the numbers. That is why the reporting work tends to be handled by tax counsel and not folded into general return preparation.

What the listing shows

Ayar Law has been operating since 2012 and works only in tax. The practice areas we matched to our taxonomy are tax law, tax relief and settlements, IRS disputes and audits, and tax planning, which lines up with what the firm itself publishes.

As a reviewer, the thing worth flagging to readers is the breadth within a narrow field. The firm names federal work, Michigan state work, civil controversy, collections, court litigation, criminal defense, and international reporting. Those are distinct procedural worlds that happen to share a subject.

The site gives titles for all six attorneys and a professional background for the founder. Biographical detail for the other five attorneys is not published, so a reader wanting law schools, admission years, or prior roles for Wendy Eisenshtadt Begres, Agustin Arbulu, Erik VanderWeyden, Hayden Leithauser, or Arjan Malushi will need to ask the firm directly.

Two Michigan offices, Farmington Hills and Grand Rapids, cover the southeast and west sides of the state. The firm states it takes matters nationwide, which is consistent with a federal tax practice, since IRS procedure runs the same way in every state. The Michigan-specific work, by contrast, is tied to the state's own agencies and tribunal.

One published fact deserves repeating for the practical reader: Michigan property tax is outside the firm's scope. Property tax assessment appeals run through local boards of review and the Michigan Tax Tribunal on a residential and commercial valuation track, and someone with that problem needs a different practice. Ayar Law's tribunal work sits on the business tax side.

Office address and contact details

The directory record gives a full street address for the Farmington Hills office: 30095 Northwestern Hwy, Farmington Hills, Michigan. That is more useful than a city-level location alone for a prospective client who wants to confirm where an in-person appointment would take place or identify the office before sending documents. The record does not provide a street address for any other location, so this is the only physical destination that can be confirmed from the supplied information.

Two telephone numbers appear in the record: (248) 262-3400 and (616) 244-2444. The area codes correspond with different parts of Michigan, but the supplied record does not expressly assign either number to a named office. A reader should therefore use the numbers as published rather than assume which lawyer or location will answer each line.

What can be checked before contact

The listing identifies https://ayarlaw.com/ as the firm's website. That gives readers a direct source for checking current contact instructions before calling or visiting. It also provides a practical place to verify whether the firm asks prospective clients to begin by telephone or through an online inquiry. The supplied record does not state an intake method, appointment policy, or document-submission process, so none can be assessed here.

From a review standpoint, the contact information is specific enough to distinguish this practice from firms with similar names. The street address identifies a particular Farmington Hills location, while the two published telephone numbers give readers separate contact routes. Still, the record does not connect individual attorneys with direct numbers or state whether either line reaches a central intake team. Anyone seeking a particular lawyer should identify that person by name when making contact.

Practical limits of the directory record

The record supports a straightforward first step: confirm the office details through the firm's published website, then use one of the listed numbers to ask about intake. It does not describe consultation fees or expected response times. Those points may affect how a prospective client proceeds, but they require direct confirmation rather than an assumption based on the directory entry.