American tax relief claimed to help reduce the amount of tax i owed the government after they received my money they were unreachable by phone or by internet i got taken for 5, 500.00. i want my money refunded but do not know how to go about getting it back.i read about the owners of a.t.r. driving fancy cars and owning 2 and 3 houses at the expense of hard working people.these kind of scammers should be locked up for a long time and should be made to reimburse the people there money back.the government supposedly shut them down but are they doing anything to help the victims get there money back

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I had invested heavily into Boeing right before 9/11 (my prayers go out to those lost). even though i lost everything i invested and then some i still was sent notification i was being taxed because at one point my shares were a substantial gain to me.After seeing the commercial for American Tax Relief i called them up to see what they could do for me. I was told through offer in Compromise that they could reduce my 90k that i owed the IRS to only 3 grand. Fantastic! The two payments of $7, 500 seemed like a steal if they could save me that much money. Steal is RIGHT! They wanted all sorts of paper work to aid them in working on my case, and they always seemed to need it within the next day. i did my best to make sure that i sent them everything i could in order to make the process go more smoothly. after 3 months and $15, 000 there was an unauthorized draft from my bank account for $3, 500. I immediately called and asked what this was about. Apparently the IRS rejected the Offer in Compromise they submitted and needed another $3, 500 to "re-open" my case. WHAT?! do you mind telling me when you are going to draft my account, or at least fail at what you were supposed to do?! i thought it was too late anyway so i told them to go ahead and "re-open" my case After another 3 months re sending all the paperwork that i ALREADY SENT THEM another $1, 200 was drafted from my account!!! WHAT THE HELL?!?! HOW CAN THEY JUST TAKE MY MONEY!!! how can this company just keep taking my money without my CONSENT?! they have literally stolen $4, 700 from me! And the $15, 000 they took initially for one didn't get the job done! so after almost $20, 000 THEY HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! So i called the IRS and they told me that my offer in Compromise was denied in November and no other contact has been had since. NOVEMBER!!! ATR had taken money the cost to "re-open" from me in February! THEY TOOK MY MONEY AND DID...???? all my money went to finance their damn commercials so they could scam more people like me! I finally got this issue RESOLVED when i contacted the accounting firm that my brother uses for his corporate accounting. (i didn't go to them in the first place because i thought they would be to expensive since they do corporate accounting for billion dollar companies) HA they charged me literally a fraction of what American Tax Relief did. AND reduced my debt to only 8k! NOT an Offer in Compromise like American Tax Relief said, i make to much income to qualify for that (obviously why the IRS denied my OIC initially)But they were able to eliminate ALL of the interest and penalties and had my debt reassessed based on my investment and NOT on what the Potential Gaines were. They actually have a department for consumers, not just corporate accounting i guess, 877-517-0067 is their number. Talk to Dave, he's the guy who helped me. Does anyone know of how i can get my money back from American Tax Relief?? is there a class action suit i can join. Anything would help. If you are reading this and need tax help DO NOT USE AMERICAN TAX RELIEF! They are a complete SCAM and will steal your money!!! if you can't do it yourself, check out settlewiththeirs.info that's the firm i used(that's their site for regular consumers who have tax problems). I knew American Tax Relief had a few complaints, but i thought it was a numbers thing, Disney Land has complaints etc., but American Tax Relief doesn't even know how to help you! it seems like they tell everyone that they're entitled to an offer in compromise. complete LIES!!! on the IRS site they even state that over 90% of OIC's are Denied! Should have listened to my brother in the first place.

I called American Tax Relief after viewing ad on television. I spoke to Robert Campbell for about five minutes regarding my tax debt issues. He guaranteed me that my interest fees and penalty charges would be removed and I would only pay for my actual taxes owed. I paid $4, 000.00 on September 24th 2008 and made arrangements with him to pay the rest by October 24th 2008. After paying the $4, 000.00 I decided to research the company and found that they have an extremely bad reputation all over the internet. Please check Better Business Bureau, Consumeraffairs.com, ripoff.com, etc. Naturally I felt duped and decided to have my brother handle the refund due to my anger. I chose not to send the remaining $1, 500.00 and my brother asked the company for at least a partial refund. The representative Robert Campbell became very agitated and stated, "I'm not going down that road with you. So you can forget about that refund. We have an army of attorneys..." I felt that the conversation was not getting anywhere and I became convinced that I lost the $4000.00. This company did very minimal work on my case. The only thing he did on my alleged case is receive a signed 3 page power of attorney. They also sent me a 10 page questionnaire w/ a cancellation policy that was impossible for me to participate in. Policy stated, "you have 5 days from date of letter." Letter was dated 9/24/2008 and I received it on 9/30/2008. They are scam artists abusing the legal system to get rich. I would also like to add that they are a bunch of cowards. I asked Robert Campbell if I could set up an appointment with him since I was going to travel to L.A. for a UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) event. He became very nervous and lost control stating, "get the fuck off my phone you're a joke." lol.

After authorizing this company the initial payment of 3, 900 dollars to resolve my tax problem, a Mr. John Buckner contacted me again to inform me of a second company named as Tax Group would be handling my file and an additional 8, 000 dollars would be required for their services. Despite my verbal insistence that I did not wish to have a second company prepare my taxes and informing Mr. Buckner of my wish to get the taxes prepared locally, I was led to believe American Tax Relief was a separate company by the customer services representative, Edna Silva, and Tax Group receives clients from American Tax Relief. Based on this, Edna said she would need an IRS form 8821, to obtain my tax info. This form has no authorization or account information for withdrawal for payment of any kind. However, after my statement to Mr. Buckner at the close of business on Friday, Sept. 12, 2008, the amount of 8, 000 dollars was withdrawn by Tax Group, on Sunday at 11.32 pm.