Richard Wright

Richard (Ricky) Wright, CPA Ricky is the founding member of Wright Tax Solutions LLC a tax only CPA firm in Scottsdale Arizona. The firm specializes in research and planning with an emphasis on real estate and closely held businesses. Ricky is a former regional director of tax and financial planning with a "Big Four" firm. He was also named as a firm wide "tax research specialist" within another national accounting firm. He has over 33 years of experience as a tax professional and entrepreneur. He has extensive working knowledge of most areas of the Internal Revenue Code, with a strong emphasis on Real Estate, Mergers and Acquisitions, Transaction Planning and Individual Taxes. Ricky has been fortunate to have been a practicing CPA (Tax Partner) a CFO and a successful business owner. This experience helps him to craft sophisticated tax solutions for complex issues and intricate business transactions. Over the past 30 years he has consulted on the capitalization, sale, IPO, reorganization, valuation and/or succession planning of virtually every type and size of business, from start-up to fortune 500. Born and raised in Ohio, Ricky graduated with honors from Mount Union University, in Alliance Ohio and completed graduate level courses at Case Western University in Cleveland. He is a licensed CPA in both Ohio and Arizona and has also held his series 7 & 63 security licenses and Life and Health Insurance Licenses. He has been blessed with five children and three grandchildren and enjoys reading tax law, country dancing and watching the Arizona sunsets with his lovely wife Sharon.