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American Tax Relief

4801 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles

Marina of Burbank, CA August 10, 2008

Marina of Burbank CA (08/10/08)
I spoke to Robert Cambell and he was agressive threatening and tryied to take money out of my checking account without my permission. THEY ARE down right extortionist. I want to let the feds know that these so called lawyers are bilking thousands of money from hard working TAX PAYIERS

He didnt care if i made payroll or had any money left in my account

David of Bedford, PA July 15, 2008

David of Bedford PA (07/15/08)
June 26, 2008 we signed a contract with David Bradley stating that he would be the power of attorney to get all the tax information from 2000-2008. We gave him 5,900 to do both fed. and state and he said we would only owe the IRS 1,000- 2,000. After we gave him the money we received a phone call from a man named John Buckner yelling at us saying that they need more money (3,100) in 2 hours or they were going to drop us.

At that time we knew it was a scam and they were taking us for a ride. We were stuck and they had all our money. They are the most ignorant people I have ever met. I don't know how they can sleep at night. I would never do business with them and I just want everybody to know to stay away from those people!

They had taken money out of my bank account without my permission and after doing that they wanted more. After giving them all of our personal info. John Buckner said he was dropping us.

Katie of Kettering, OH June 27, 2008

Katie of Kettering OH (06/27/08)
During my initial call will ATR, the representative was initially polite and seemingly helpful, however, he pushed for more and more personal information including name, address, Social Security Numbers, and then wanted 3900.00 upfront by check over the phone to take our case. I asked Shawn to let me read over the paperwork he was supposed to be faxing, research the company, and discuss the service with my husband and I would call him back. He became irate and insulting. I had to hang up on him. Apparently he knew my research would uncover numerous complaints regarding their rude, bullying tactics.

I am now establishing fraud alerts with the credit bureaus for our protection against ATR becasue I gave them our SSN

Larry of Bradenton, FL June 6, 2008

Larry of Bradenton, FL (06/06/08)
This is an addition to the report posted. Now, on June 6 I received a letter from my credit card company saying they were unable to process the credit. When I initially talked to American Tax, I provided my credit card over the phone. I was to sign and return documents that were faxed to me but I changed my mind, advised them by fax within a day and did not sign any documents. They did not provide any service to me as we terminated before we even started. Sounds to me like my credit card company and American Tax are in bed together.

I'm out 2450 at this point. This is after American Tax agreed to a refund over the phone with the credit card representative on a conferfence call.

Cindy of Wetumpka, AL June 5, 2008

Cindy of Wetumpka AL (06/05/08)
my husband contacted atr in april 2008 to help him straighten out a big delinquent tax problem and paid them 3,900.00. on april 17, 2008. on 6/4/2008 a chris hannah called and stated he had let an arbitary deadline go by and demaned another 3,100. they did absoloutely nothing but use strongarm and scare tactics. questioned our character and yelled. i am interested in any way shape or form to sue these people to recover the 3,900.00 and to shed light on this company!

i did not have the 3,900.00 to begin with. that put us in a financial bind and now their threats to sue us over the 3,100.00 as being a bad check has me constantly worried and feeling helpless that they just took the money and did not in any way offer us any form of service for this money. how can i recover this money?

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