$3,900 in advance and reduce your taxes-are you kidding
June 5, 2007
Last week a client called us because they had just gotten off the phone with un-named firm (hint they advertise on TV and claim to have offices across the country) and they were suspicious of what they had been told. The salesperson from the firm, asked how much they owed, the caller responded $29,000. The salesperson from the firm without asking any other questions said his firm would reduce the taxes reduced to $2,000 to $4,000 “if they qualified”, and the fee would be $3,900. The truth is unfortunately most people don’t qualify for an Offer in Compromise and paying $3,900 for most tax solutions is WAY over priced. The “if they qualified” statement is a clever sales tactic to avoid promises or guarantees of results. This is done to protect their hard sales process, but will get bad results for the caller. Expect to pay a reasonable down payment or retainer, and then pay as you go and as the firm produces results for you. Never pay full in advance or agree to a contract that has an umbrella fee structure, and always double check if it sounds too good to be true. BTW, this client never would of qualified for an OIC, but we were able to help them with reasonable payment plan, and yes they only paid for the service that was provided.
February 29th, 2008 at 4:13 am
I want to thank Irs/state tax relief associates for their professional way in handling our state tax problem. There were no pie in the sky promises or any required chunk of change charges before they would talk with us and do a very thorough analysis of our situation. Infact, they really under promised and over delivered for us. We had used another famous tax relief company, who shall remain nameless but are located in South Carolina, to help us in the past. They took our money and after a year of this and that, we still owed $52,000. Jeff and his staff got the job done in a fraction of the time and we settled gor under $1900. Wow! If you want a thorough, professional, and caring company to help you, we highly and gratefully recommend Irs/state tax relief associates to you. They get the job done, and done right.
Pastor Chuck Snelling