Brandon of Houston TX (03/07/09) The Tax Club sold me a tax accounting package for 1500 and 19 a month that was supposed to give me unllimited access to a licensed CPA that has expertise in my area of business in my state. After joining the Tax Club I received weekly sales calls by people that called the calls consultations. Each call ended with a hard sell on a different service like bookkeeping, legal documents and other services. Each service would be thousands more. They would tell me that my accountant would be calling me but I have a different meeting scheduled first fo some other subject.
I would wait for the scheduled call and the call would be another sales call. They kept me on the hook until my right of recission for getting a refund had expired. I never signed a contract but they say that by logging into their website I accepted the terms of service. The 2008 VTO was not available on the site and I needed to do my taxes immediately. They would not tell me when the VTO would be available when I asked over email. They continued to keep me on the hook to allow the 30 days to expire. The credit card company attempted to give me my money back but they can only do so much.
Since the Tax Club provided terms of service they say I received they woudl not reverse the charges. I did not electronically sign anything that I remember and if I did they failed to deliver on their promises as they gave in their sales call. I have started a class action lawsuit against the Tax Club. This company is also known as the Manhattan Professional Group.
I have lost 1500 that they refuse to refund. They reviewed my refund request twice and declined it twice. I believe the review process is a way to drag out the refund and assist with getting the disgruntled customer to give up the fight and eat the loss while they take your money for doing nothing. They call their sales calls consultations and partial completion of the services they sold you. I was never told that I would get these sales calls only that I would have access to a licensed CPA in my state that specializes in my business field.
Shamia of Petersburg, VA February 27, 2009
Shamia of Petersburg VA (02/27/09) The Tax Club is a fraudalent LLC. who promise a wide range of services but never make good on none of them. Let me say first off that I blame myself partially for not reading these comments first, as a first time business owner I should have been more careful as to whom, especially these crooks,I allow to handle corporation's business.
I was contacted about two weeks after setting up my S-corp by Natalie who had a great hopes and promises as to our refund and deductions eventhough we had just started at the end of December. She promised huge refunds, personal CPA's and accountants and help with everything from business plans constant protection and consultation for our business. None of these things happened, everything was fraud. And when confronted they handled it as if I was the problem and they are unaware of their terrible services. Be aware. I am submitting this to my lawyer. Half as refund
Shawn of Pearland, TX December 2, 2008
Shawn of Pearland TX (12/02/08) Wow! I almost went for the same ride as others here. I was contacted by The Tax Club shortly after using Legal Zoom to start up my S-Corp. The call was a little too sales pitchy for my tastes and Michael kept repeating key phrases as if he was reading from a cue card. The whole thing reminded me of the movie Boiler Room.
After about the fourth time he told me that they would be Agressive and even Creative in finding my newly formed S-Corp tax deductions I told him that I would have to run this all past my current CPA. He scheduled a follow up phone call for two weeks later. Meanwhile a simple Google search netted me plenty of evidence to convince me that The Tax CLub is not for me. I feel sorry for those folks who signed up with these jokers and lost out.
Damage: None thanks to this website and others like it. I managed to save myself from any losses.
Melissa of Guntersville, AL October 22, 2008
Melissa of Guntersville AL (10/22/08) They contacted me because I had started a business. They said they would take care of my business and tax set up. Handled professionally so that I could avoid as much taxes as possible, so I could make sure I was set up correctly (convinced me I needed a S-corp). After the initial2995, they added 895 for doing my upcoming taxes and after that they scheduled weekly calls to HELP me.
These were high presure sales calls also. When we realized that this was a scam , we demanded money back. They did a partial refund. The end result was after the refunds we still ended up paying almost1400 for an EIN. (that's about 5 minutes worth of paper work.)
Other than being out the 1400, we also have to start from scratch setting up our business (about 2 months behind schedule) I can't tell you the stress that causes as we can't find out what if anything has been sent to our state government. They have helped push us to the brink of collapse.
By the way, the whole time that they are pressuring us into putting more and more on our credit cards they are promising that they will get it all (our business investments) back at the end of the year. I found out recently that is not possible.
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