My story in a nutshell. My husband and I were immigrants and through our own negligence and stupidity, we let someone talk us into joining an organisation called SAP. These people told us that it is not the Law to pay taxes. That it was a volantary option So my husband did not pay or file for several years. After recieving harassing letters from the IRS we decided to volantarily get help with filing our taxes. We went to JK Harris. I had looked them up on the internet, I called and made an appointment to meet thier man in Orlando. A Robert Lentz. He said he was filling in for his wife.
We paid him $100, he said we had to pay him $200 but we didnt have any more money with us. He looked at our paperwork and did some calculations then told us they could do an OIC for around $5-6000. (We signed a form that said we had two years to pay $3800. To date we have paid $3000.) At that time the IRS said we owed $112,000. My husband (who is almost 70YRS) was semi retired, and at the time we were living on his SS and the occasional paycheck with handouts from our children just to make ends meet.
From that day on I made all the phone calls to them. They put a Ms Moore in charge of our file. She told me to file out the form she was sending and to send in all papers, bill, expenses for the last five years. This I did. When I asked about the other years she said they are no longer valid. Dumb mistake, I admit it, I should have gone with my gut feeling. Anyhow to cut a long story short a year went by and nothing was happening. I called her on a regular basis and faxed every piece of paper that we recieved from the IRS.
Then in June the IRS went in and wipped out our bank account. This left us in a mess, we couldn't pay any of our bills and some of that money was for my husbands expenses on a job he was about to do. (he still owes this company) He also lost his job. When I called Ms Moore she said " Thats what the IRS do" and I said but I thought you were taking care of it! She then said she would have the people who do the OIC start on that. No more from Ms Moore or JK Harris untill December when we started to get calls from a collection company. We were now unable to continu making payments. The in April my husband recieved a summons from the IRS. I had my son call JK Harris and he was told that this case was dropped August. I called Ms Moore and she said they had made an OIC for $6000 and it was turned down. I said so what are you going to do about it. She said she would get back to me. SHE NEVER DID!!!
We went to the IRS and they were very nice and said that JK Harris had never made any Offer in compromise not at any time.
JK HARRIS are liars and scam artists.
Please be aware, do not, repeat, do not go to JK Harris.
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