>JK Harris Complaints – Yes another one
on January 22, 2010 at 2:52 pm>DO NOT hire OR consult a tax settlement firm! Call the IRS immediately and work out a payment plan TODAY. Read on!
Sharon Bilbary, St Louis Mo
I went to JK Harris to get my tax payment cleared up….I agent told me I would have to bring all my paper work and $200.00 down payment. When I got there I discovered I left my check book and he wrote the check for me and he added the amount to the balance. I thought this is a good faith gesture. Little did I know that I was in for a rude awakening. I was told to sit back and let them handle my case. (read more)
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After months of dropped balls at J.K. Harris, new case workers every 3 months (with no phone call follow ups from them, or returned calls or emails), and more and more scary letters from the Internal Revenue Service, I gave up and said, “I will go fix this myself”. To be fair, there were a dozen or calls between us and J K Harris tax prep people (the beginning of the process). But any mistakes made, according to them, “are your fault, you agreed to… and also….” No ma’am, check this email, that email… ” Then I’d get a new preparer. (read more)
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Just like my past posts about J K Harris. Sure, they didn’t hold up to their part of the agreement, but it is still my fault for:
1. Not knowing my tax obligations when self-employed
2. Not paying my quarterly taxes on time the first couple of years
3. Waiting until the IRS found me (it took them about 3 years to reach me via mail)
4. Not researching my options for payments to the IRS (pride)
5. Allowing a TV commercial to convince me it wasn’t my fault (they’re selling GUILT RELEASE) and that someone else would do the work I didn’t know how to do or was too intimidated to approach.
6. Not asking questions. Letting things happen to me and accepting my fate. Guilt. Ignorance. Pride. (read more)
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>I contacted JK Harris in 2009 to help me reduce my tax debt. I didnt file for 2000-2004. Apparently the IRS will file for you if you dont. So the IRS told me I owed 20k in back taxes and had started garnishing my pay.
At JK Harris they told me based on my hardship and financial situation I was qualified for an Offer In Compromise and would only have to pay the IRS 1, 000. LIES!!! I paid them 2, 200 up front so they could file a Power of Attorney and stop the garnishment and 1, 200 a month for the next 3 months would be my total fees for the POA and the OIC. The garnishments stopped— for 3 months.
I called in to see why and they told me my OIC was rejected and there was nothing they could do for me. Then they told me that I was not entitled to a refund because there is no guarantee for the outcome and the money I paid them was for their services which they performed!! COMPLETE BS!!! THEY DID NOTHING FOR ME AND TOOK 5, 800 FROM ME!!! About 6 months ago after searching for some sort of solution to my taxes and came across settlewiththeirs.info.
According to them OIC is not even a legitimate way to reduce your tax debt unless the IRS determines that you have no way of repaying the debt i.e. on your death bed with no job or assets. But they did a Tax Investigation for free and got back to me with the results the next day. It turns out that I was not entitled to an OIC like they stated earlier, but they said they could reduce most of the interest and penalties on my debt and stop the garnishment indefinitely.949-999-3308
I have 12 months left of 250 a month back to the IRS then I will be done with this tax debt FOREVER! And they were about 2 grand less than JK Harris. Moral of the Story: If it sounds too good to be true then it is! Stay away from JK Harris. I am filling a complaint to the Attorney General, The BBB and my Governor! I suggest that you all do the same!
>I contacted JK Harris in 2009 to help me reduce my tax debt. I didn’t file for 2000-2004. Apparently the IRS will file for you if you don’t. So the IRS told me I owed 20k in back taxes and had started garnishing my pay. At JK Harris they told me based on my hardship and financial situation I was qualified for an Offer In Compromise and would only have to pay the IRS $1,000. LIES!!! I paid them $2,200 up front so they could file a Power of Attorney and stop the garnishment and 1,200 a month for the next 3 months would be my total fees for the POA and the OIC. The garnishments stopped… for 3 months. I called in to see why and they told me my OIC was rejected and there was nothing they could do for me. Then they told me that I was not entitled to a refund because there is no guarantee for the outcome and the money I paid them was for their services which they performed!! COMPLETE BS!!!! THEY DID NOTHING FOR ME AND TOOK $5,800 FROM ME!!! About 6 months ago after searching for some sort of solution to my taxes and came across http://www.settlewiththeirs.info (877)517-0067. According to them OIC is not even a legitimate way to reduce your tax debt unless the IRS determines that you have no way of repaying the debt i.e. on your death bed with no job or assets. But they did a Tax Investigation for free and got back to me with the results the next day. It turns out that I was not entitled to an OIC like they stated earlier, but they said they could reduce most of the interest and penalties on my debt and stop the garnishment indefinitely. I have 12 months left of $250 a month back to the IRS then I will be done with this tax debt FOREVER! And they were about 2 grand less than JK Harris. Moral of the Story: If it sounds too good to be true then it is! Stay away from JK Harris. I’m filling a complaint to the Attorney General, The BBB and my Governor! I suggest that you all do the same!