We are living one of our worst nightmares due to Mr. Barney. We had used him for a couple of years to prepare our business, payroll and personal taxes. We felt we had a good relationship and trusted him.in Oct we sent him our original bank statements and receipts in order for him to prepare our 2009 taxes. He called telling us that he was submitting our returns through E-File and asked us to pay him $450 immediately via PayPal, which we did.
We then found out he never filed our returns. We also found out his office was vacant. For 3 months we left him phone messages and e-mails. He finally responded after he received our e-mail notifying him we were filing a complaint with the IRS. He said in his e-mail that he was no longer in business and his reason for not filing our returns made no sense. At this point all we want is our files back, it will be impossible to reproduce many of the receipts.
Mr. Barney has not returned our files and is once again ignoring our communications. We will be taking any and all actions against him that we can afford.
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