I called Mr. Cory McAllister Certified Tax Consultant™ on Thursday March 13, 2008. I told him that I was currently filing Form 656; which is an “Offer in Compromise", with the I.R.S. and that I only had 2 months to submit the form.

Mr. McAllister stated “no problem the first thing Tax Masters will do is contact the I.R.S. and put a freeze on my account and notify them that you have signed over power of attorney and that Tax Masters is representing you”.

Mr. McAllister also explained to me not to contact the I.R.S. He said TAX MASTERS will handle all correspondence with I.R.S. from this point forward. So, I leave it with Mr. McAllister and his staff (BAD MISTAKE).

On Wednesday, April 23, 2008 I received a call from my payroll manager saying she has just received a “Notice of Levy to Garnish Wages" by the I.R.S.

I called the I.R.S. on April 25, 2008 and got the lien garnishment lifted and it didn't cost me a dime. The I.R.S. told me all this could have been avoided with just one phone call asking for an extension. Mr. McAllister stated Tax Masters definitely called the I.R.S. to get tax information, but did not notify the I.R.S. that they were representing me.

All Mr. McAllister, Juanita or Celina (my assigned case workers, which are really file clerks) had to do was to call the I.R.S. office and let them know that Tax Masters is now representing me. Imagine that!

In fact, my payroll manager told me that when she called the I.R.S. they told her no one from Tax Masters has ever contacted the I.R.S. office. When I spoke with the I.R.S, I asked if any representative from Tax Masters has ever contacted them and they told me “NO". (I have names and badge numbers of I.R.S. agents).

Due to the fact that TAX MASTERS mislead, lied and has put me in a worse situation with the I.R.S. than I was before, I sent a certified letter requesting a “FULL REFUND" to be credited back to my credit card. When I called back and spoke with Mr. McAllister he told me Tax Masters never received any letter of cancellation. I told him that I sent it certified mail via U.S.P.S. with a Track & Confirm update, and signature of Tax Masters representative who signed for it.

Tax Masters has done absolutely nothing for me and I cannot imagine how they are still in business.

This company has an unsatisfactory report for a pattern of complaint activity regarding refunds and service. It is obvious that Tax Masters did nothing to help me and has not provided the service they claim and promise to do.
There are numerous complaints through the Houston BBB, independent blogs, and complaint boards that cite issues very similar to mine that people have had with Taxmasters. When you add it all up, many people have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars by contracting Tax Masters.

On December 4, 2008, I contacted my attorneys in California and their firm is looking into filing a class action lawsuit against Tax Masters - Patrick R. Cox and Fred Hackett.

If all goes well there will be TV and radio commercials announcing this notice.

I encourage all interested parties to join this class action lawsuit to hopefully put Patrick R. Cox, Fred V. Hackett and Alex Clamon of Tax Masters out of business and get our money back, and put an end to these predatory vultures who prey on people financially unable to fight back!




Agencies to file complaints against Tax Master:

* Texas State Board of Accountancy
* Join the class action lawsuit against Tax Masters
* Better Business Bureau of Houston
* State Attorney Generals Office
* Harris County Government
* Consumer Affairs Offices
* Texas bar Association
* File a Rip-off
* File a complaint with the office of Professional Responsibility at the IRS

Patrick Cox, the owner of TAX MASTERS is a complete FRAUD! Please make all complaints to the BBB and District Attorneys office!

FRAUD VICTIMS CONTACT ME!! DO NOT USE TAX MASTERS OR PATRICK COX!!! SCAM

If you are a victim, please email me right away! Taxmasters and Patrick Cox are crooks and scam artists!

I am starting a website just to collect all people who have been ripped offed, scammed, lied to, cheated by Patrick Cox and Taxmasters!

Including:

Alex Clamon, Vice President TaxMasters
Fred Hackett, General Counsel TaxMasters
Patrick Cox, President TaxMasters

Search the Better Business Bureau for taxmasters 1 word to see all the complaints from innocent victims like myself, a 65 year old Vet!

http://houston.bbb.org/WWWRoot/Report.aspx?site=148&bbb=0915&firm=60000056

contact me immediately from the contact button up top!!

We hired these idiots back in Feb 08 and it has been 8 months with NOTHING done!! We paid them 3600.00 I have contacted the BBB and there are to date 169 complaints about this theiving company!!! I have contacted others who have written on this site and if you just google tax masters there are a whole lot of other people as upset as we are! There is always a fight just to talk to someone and they NEVER want to help...they have referred us to 8 different people in the company and most of them claim they are our financial analyst and that we are in the last stages of getting the taxes taken care of. They even LOST our tax returns and paperwork that was sent!!! If anyone is interested in a class action lawsuit please email me!!!

Tax "Masters"
While the State Attorney of Texas gets their ducks in a row, we are trying to help out other unassuming people who are looking for tax help so that other people don't get into the same problem as myself and possibly as many as 150 people who's complaints I have found on different blogs. Tax Masters is the most irresponsible and negligent tax outfit I have ever had the disfortune to have worked with. (I should correct this to say that they are the most irrpsobonsible and negligent service in general that I have ever hired in any capacity). My story in a nutshell: There was a $60K error posted on one of my tax returns and I recieved a letter from the IRS rightfully charging my what they thought I owed. I needed to amend my returns and pay the correct amount. I am not someone who didn't pay their taxes or tried to cheat the IRS. But when I recieve this letter from the government, I called Tax Masters thanks to their ad on CNN. What I have recieved for my $6000 fee has been three months of pulling my hair out and not sleeping and even more IRS troubles because they instructed me NOT to contact them or reply to any letters, that they would handle it (and they never did). Only after 75 days of almost daily pleading, did I recieve ONLY ONE of the 5 revised tax returns they owe me. No one in the office returns calls. They charged me $6000 for services I did not need. Compared to other people who's complaints I have read, I was lucky enough to find the only competent person at Tax Masters and ONLY because of him did I even receieve my urgent amended returns (which he had ot send me against company policy of letting tehir clients review the returns). They do things like not return over 30 voicemessages I left over a month and then call to charge you $60 for overnight shipping, only to send it for $1.35 in snail mail. I could write and write all the millions of details of the torture I have endured over the past 3 months. But In lieu of this, I will simply refer you all to one blog I found that had various complaints. http://www.enormousincongruities.com/2006/02/22/tax-masters/