JK Harris

In August I paid a total of $3,500 for JK Harris in Metairie, LA to handle my state taxes. In October I was called in to pay an additional $500. I have never heard from them nor have they contacted the state of Louisiana about my debt. When I called to check in November they told me they were working on it. This company knew they were gong out of business when they called me in for additional fees. Now I am out of $4,000 and now they are trying to ask a judge for leniency. What about the people you swindle out of money that could not afford it?

I paid J K Harris and assoc several thousand dollars to settle a tax problem with the IRS for 2000 to 2008. Submitted all of the paperwork they requested. Was named in the class action lawsuit against them in 2009. Received 1 check for $3.85 and 1 the next year for $5.00 and change. Not enough to go to McD's for a lunch. I want to know what the status of the claim is now that they have filed bankruptcy? Some one please respond to this email.. Thanks.

I was part of the class action lawsuit that was filed against JK Harris. I originally paid $2,500 for their services in conducting an offer in compromise for my federal, state and city tax debts for years 2000-2003. They lead me on for 2 years saying they were working on it continually, asking me to submit financial records and then made one offer to the IRS, and when the IRS came back with a counter, they never made any other effort to settle the debt. I have received a check for $13 and $16 as my settlement? Of course, the tax debt has continued to grow and I have no funds to pay for any help as I counted on the settlement.

I hired JK Harris to help with my back taxes. I paid them over $7000.00. I wasn't satisfied, and they offered to refund approximately $4500 of my money. I signed an agreement accepting the money, but they never paid me! The agreement was prior to their bankruptcy, and I don't know where to file a claim for my money. Looks like fraud to me!

I called the lawyer three times and left a message from my cell phone and he was not returning my calls. Then I called him from my other cell phone and he answered my call and told me he would call me right back. When he called me back, he told me that JK Harris is going bankrupt and another lawyer was taking over my case. No one has yet to call me back. I gave him $1700 the first time and then gave him $500. His name is Anthony **.

I hired them to do my taxes in November 2011. They did not complete the work I paid them to do. They still have my personal tax files, and I need to get them back.

I became a J.K. Harris customer in 2011 and paid them $4000 to assist me with my back taxes. Communication was great. I spoke with a lady name Sherry B. in the corp. office. She requested more information from me via US mail. I just got the letter back in the mail stating by the post office that it was undeliverable. I called the 800 number many times and my local contact and the numbers are disconnected. Pissed! I feel like I just got stabbed in the heart!

We hired JK Harris to help us with getting our taxes straightened out. We paid them a large amount to file our taxes which they did. When that was finished we had other tax business they needed to handle and we agreed to let them withdraw $868.75 every 2 weeks from our account, which they did 12 times for a total of $10,425 but they never did what they were suppose to do and took our money. We would talk to someone in the office and they would assure us they were working on it but then one day we called and the number was disconnected and we read on the computer they filed bankruptcy. I want our money back! I have my bank statement were they took the money and now we have no money and our taxes are not straight. I am livid and I want something done. These people stole from my family and need to pay!

I had the same experience with JK Harris. If you still need help, I would suggest visiting ****. My CPA gave me this site and it saved me a lot of time and kept me from getting scammed again. They review tax companies.

My husband and I were ripped off $10,000.00 by this monster. I hope when he dies and goes to hell his torture is to take every penny one by one and shove it up to his fat ass one by one. I normally do not wish ill upon other people but I hope he struggles when he dies and afterwards.

JK Harris sucks. I joined them in January 2011 thinking I was going to get help with my IRS debt. In fact, like everyone else, all JK Harris did was make my situation worse and now I have the IRS about to garnish my wages and I'm a single mother of 2 and JK Harris stole about $4,000 from me and my children. Thanks JK Harris for nothing. My overall rating isn't even 1 star but I had to select that.

After I got divorced, I lost my job. Since I was paying for several mortgages and could not liquidate any assets due to the economy, I got behind on my taxes, and I was underwater on my mortgages. Like many others, I hired JK Harris for $4,000 to resolve my tax problems. This was in October of 2011. They did file my 2010 return, but I never heard from them again. I continued to trust they were going to help me. Then, they did not return my calls, and I continued to get notices from the IRS.

I didn't receive any notice of their impending bankruptcy, and just found out today after calling all their 800 numbers and the calls not going through, when I received an auto generated email with the bad news. I was on hold with the IRS for an hour, and the amounts I now owe are thousands more than when I hired JK Harris to help me. Now I don't know what I am going to do.

I'm sure there will be some class action law suit but the lawyers will get most of what is recovered, and the consumers nothing. Is this the American way? Am I better off on welfare rather than being responsible and working for a living? It seems to me that is our reality. I guess I am in good company with the rest of everyone here. I went to the consultant based on a recommendation from a friend and now, I know I should have researched the company beforehand.

They have gone out of business, and they took over $4,000.00 from a disabled, divorced mother of three children. My problem with the IRS has still not been resolved. Thanks for absolutely nothing JK Harris & Company. I have been working with JK Harris for over a year. Now with penalties and interest, I owe the IRS more money than I did before I started working with JK Harris. After giving them all of my savings, I am officially broke.

I've paid 3550.00 dollars on May 27, 2010 to settle back taxes. I was told I needed to go back 10 years on my second appointment. Then, I was told a lady by the name of Allison ** would be handling my case. Her number is **. I`ve been working with her for a few months giving her my tax info. I've been trying to reach them now for a few weeks with no luck. They have taken my money and all and my tax information. They have not returned my calls nor sent me any tax documents. I went on line to their internet page and learned of all the people that have paid them like me only to be ripped off.

Hired JK Harris to help us reduce our tax department. They never returned our calls and I constantly called them. They continually sent me to new reps and 2 years later, they still had not put in our OIC. Every time I complained they said I had to resend all my financial statements because they had expired. I paid them $2400 to get things started. When I met with Jess ** he knew I was recovering from cancer and was still very ill. JK Harris would steal money from his own mother because he has no moral, ethics or human compassion.

My husband and myself had to scrimp and save to make that weekly payment of $400 dollars. Maybe people wouldn't be at the mercy of scam artist if the U.S. government was willing to work with its tax payers. We got into trouble because we took money from our 401k on a hardship and was penalized. I was unable to work and the loss of my income hurt us. Is there any such thing as law. JK Harris is no better than Madoff.

I went to JK Harris back in March of 2011. They were hired to help settle a tax issue and I paid $4,800.00 to complete the federal and state issue. They never took care of the issue and levies have been placed on my wages. This company and their team should go to jail base on the results they have done to people. Rick is a person that I meet with in Portland, Oregon and looking back was no more than a used car salesman. People in this country need to wake-up with what the IRS is doing to the country. This is the most brutal agency in the country and they do not follow the will of the people. Chapter 7 should not protect these people. The victims of this scam should find these people and make them pay for what they done. They should pay everyone back that they scamed with interest.

I hired JK Harris for tax relief service. Now that they have filed for bankruptcy, what do we do? Will someone take over our account and get our settlement from the IRS? Will we lose all the funds we have paid to them? What is our next step?

I went to JK Harris on April 2011 for help resolve my tax problems. They charged me $2,500 or $400.00 every two weeks and $600.00 or $200.00 every two to take care of my situation. I submitted all the documents and power of attorney they requested. After several calls to them for a status reported, they finally got back to me and informed me that they were negotiating a payment plan and it will be several weeks to reach an agreement. I waited until after the holiday to call them just to find out the contact numbers I had been disconnected. I had the personal cell # to the person I first spoke with and he informed me that the company went out of business two weeks ago and he was out of work. He was concerned that nobody contacted me and suggested that I contact the IRS and set up a payment plan.

I spent three (3) hours on the phone with IRS, City & State and set up a payment plan. They informed me that JK Harris did not submit documents that would have completed the final step and lowered my monthly payment. As a result, I will pay almost $1,000.00 dollar a month for almost five (5) years to pay back what I owe. Needless to say, with the economy the way it is, $1,000.00 a month is hard on me. I feel JK Harris should give me and others our money back for failure to complete their commitment.

I am writing this complaint only to help others to avoid making the same mistake that my husband and I made. Many years ago, my husband worked as a truck driver for a company that did not withhold taxes and consequently, we did not save enough to pay the total amount owed at the end of 2004. We set up a payment plan with the Internal Revenue Service and paid $200.00 per month for the next several years, but continued to get more behind because of the penalties and interest that they charged.

When my husband changed jobs to work for a company that did withhold taxes, the IRS kept not only his tax returns, but mine as well. I had extra money held out of each check and they took our earned income for children as well. They took everything and we finally realized that we would never get them paid off. We decided to go to J.K. Harris who had been recommended to me by a co-worker. We paid them $1,000.00 up front and they automatically took almost $400.00 out of our checking account for the next 11 months and then our final payment for the interest that they had never discussed was almost $500.00.

During all of this time, they assured us that everything was going well and the offer had been made. We were losing our home and had to file bankruptcy just before our last payment was made. The IRS sent us a package that they were denying our offer in compromise and J.K. Harris stopped taking our phone calls. Jim ** was the attorney that we had been working with in Canton, Ohio and he told me to go and stand in the poverty level line at the IRS because we would qualify for this now. He said that J.K. Harris couldn't help us and he was sorry. They had taken almost $7,000.00 and hadn't done a thing to help us.

I don't know how Jim ** or John K. ** sleep at night or look at themselves in the mirror knowing what they are doing to people. They are liars and thieves and the government is letting them get away with it. We could have paid that money to the government, but they won't even help us now. I have contacted Mike **'s office and the Better Business Bureau and still nothing has been done. The IRS continues to take our money and tax returns every year and we didn't even owe them that much money in the first place.

Is this really what it means to be an American? We have paid taxes our whole lives and now we can't get anyone to listen to us or help us put an end to this nightmare. The people at J.K. Harris should be in jail and the IRS should be doing more to help the people who have ended up in the same situation as we have. I have heard stories about other people who have owed taxes that they couldn't pay. Some have said that agents have come to their homes and basically told them not to worry about paying any more and their tax issues have been forgiven.

Well, we don't have a home anymore and no agent has ever come to tell us anything. They just keep taking from us and I'm sure that we have paid more than we ever owed the IRS. I wasn't even working when this happened to my husband, but they continue to take my tax returns as well. Can someone tell me where the justice is in all of this? I am 52 years old and they will probably continue to take our money as long as we continue to work. I look at the people who don't work and the government provides money, housing, food, and insurance to them. Maybe they're onto something! Anyway, stay away from J.K. Harris.

We have hired JK Harris to take care of our IRS and Wisconsin state taxes. We paid them over $4,000.00 but they keep asking for more. They do not return our calls. They send us some documents to sign. We have been calling them since November, sending emails, and no one has returned our calls. I think that they are ripping off customers and our money needs to be returned.

I gave this company a few thousand dollars to resolve back IRS taxes. They gathered a lot of personal information from me, and did nothing. In the 15 months I had them on retainer, nothing was accomplished, so when I heard about them closing their business, I personally reached an agreement with the IRS in 10 minutes. I have additional interest charges on my back taxes, and JK Harris robbed me of my limited funds.

I don't know what services completed with IRS. Shut doors on December 28th and still took bi-weekly withdrawal of $417 on the 28th. I found out by accident about the Chapter 7. I'm out about $4000 and no services were rendered and all my personal information with this company.

My husband owes several thousands to the IRS. This is the reason for contacting an attorney or what we thought was an attorney at JK Harris. My husband began working with JK Harris over 3 years ago and we have paid them at least $3,000.00 or more. They never return your calls, they are constantly telling you they are "still working on it", they demand more money, they always have a new rep, etc. This is a bunch of bogus. Lisa ** was the last person I worked with there. I have emails from this person telling us she is working on it. I sure hope you are reading this. I will put your name all over so you know what you are doing is fraudulent. You are a liar and a scam!

My overall rating would be "1 star". Their ad says "one call does it all". That's a lie. I was told by my rep that I met with that no one could take money out of my disability checks. Well, they did. I am disabled and live on my disability. I paid $2500.00 to J.K. Harris to handle my tax problems. Technically the problem with IRS wasn't even mine. It was my ex-husband's. Every time I called J.K Harris' office, I was directed to a new rep. I sent in paperwork every 3 months and every time, it went to a new rep. I was told to ignore notices from IRS. This went on for over 4 years.

I was told last October that everything was settled with IRS, but I continued to receive notices from IRS. I called J.K. Harris again this week to ask about the letter I was to receive from them stating that I was not responsible for the debt. I was told that I was responsible, but that I was in a "not able to pay status". So after 4 years of paperwork, phone calls, and tons of aggravation, I'm right back where I started.

I met several times with J.K. Harris representative in Gainesville, FL. I paid in excess of $3,000.00. I was told not to file my 2009 and 2010 returns. They would be going for a compromise. I was told they would file with the IRS to stop all levies and seizures. So what happens, the IRS just seized my bank accounts, my kids' bank accounts, and my wages. And where is J.K. Harris?

I would rate JK Harris with a zero or lower if I could. My husband and I met with one of their agents when we lived in Springfield, MO. We gave him approximately $400 and signed a contract to pay over $3000 to represent us with the IRS. We sent the information they requested. We were to get a return call back each time we called their office and a call was never received. Each time we called, we were told a new rep was handling our case and that agent would return our call but never a call. I believe there were around three supposedly reps involved. I finally emailed and received a letter stating they would give us only half of our money back because of the administration fees and costs for their time. They never did anything but take our money. And the half of the refund they promised never came and again calls were not returned.

JK Harris promised to settle out tax debt, and we paid them almost $4,000.00. They made promises to us, and even filed our 2010 tax returns wrong. When we finally realized what was happening, we put a stop payment on future payments. We then got a letter from an attorney, and they are trying to sue us. They are scam artists who feed on the working class, trying to make difficult choices. We are now trying to figure out how they have the right to sue us, when they lied, and did everything different than what they promised.

For the rate your overall experience, there should be a button for losers. It would not let me pick 0. I give them nothing. I met with a sales representative of JK Harris in July 2011. I was in danger of having my wages garnished and that JK Harris could settle my tax debt pennies on the dollar. This rep pressured me to pay him $400 that day and set up a monthly pay plan of $800 a month for the balance of $3100. I was making payments to their collection agency at an 18% rate. I found out after making payments that JK Harris will not work on your case until they receive the full balance. At this time, my debt to the IRS was around $25,000 and I felt completely hopeless. I paid all the fees owed to JK Harris in Oct. 2011. For the next 4 months, JK Harris did nothing to resolve my tax issues. I had three different reps that I worked with. The representatives did not contact me. Instead, I had to call them to get updates. I paid them well to resolve my tax issues. I think we should all get together and bring JK Harris down. Is there anyone out there who would want the case against JK Harris? It would improve your business. E-mail me if you want to join.

It was the beginning of October 2008. I've seen a commercial for a company named JK Harris which quoted "we are the nation's largest tax representation firm and we guarantee to stop interest and penalty charges and to lower what you owe the IRS". I put down $1,100 up front to a guy that I thought I could trust to handle my current situation, which at that time was lower than what I owe know. Then, I was put on a monthly payment plan that I paid on time every month, which totaled to $5,000 with the interest. He gave us his cell phone number and instructed me to call him anytime if there was a problem.

Shortly after a problem came up and it came time to call his number, it was no longer working. So, I called the main headquarters of JK Harris in North Charleston, SC. I talked to 10 different people before I got to the right person. She wasn't the only person handling my case. So, she couldn't give me an answer as to why the IRS was still contacting me and stating that it was an urgent matter, "we intend to levy your account". Bottom line, they did not resolve the problem. They just took my money and ran with it.

I paid JK Harris more than $3,000 to help me with a debt to the IRS. After waiting for 10 months for an answer, I got a letter on October 16, 2011 saying that I did not qualify for them to help me. As a result of this, I now owe the IRS more than I did at first, plus I have the fee they charged on my Master Card. Now, I owe the IRS more money than at first and also have a credit card bill.The bill from the IRS was a little over $5,000, but now it's almost $7,000.

I went to JK Harris believing that I was going to be helped (I was wrong). I met with Michelle ** (very nice person). I first met with her in December 2010, but I waited and then went back in June 2011 and that was when I signed up to be ripped off. So to start, I paid JK Harris $1,100.00 and also paid $700.00 toward the next step of the process (if I moved forward, then I have $700.00 as a credit) so they could get power of attorney and find out from the IRS how much I owe. So a total of $1,800, this was on June 28, 2011.

Not even a week later, Michelle called and I met back with her in the office. She then advised me that it would be another $4,900 to move on; this does not include the $700.00 credit I already have. I did nothing, I told her I would call and I had to think about it. So July 2011, I decided that I just wanted my money back, at least the $700.00 credit. I had to sign and email or fax the paper back. I then finally Spoke to Trawana **. She told me that it takes 45 to 60 days to get a refund. I'm not at all happy about that, but I have waited and nothing has happened. To the point that the company now doesn't return call (not that they ever did) but now my emails don't even get answered.

I paid JK Harris and Co. $2500 in Jan. 2011 to settle my tax debt. And as of Oct. 2011, I have received nothing. I have been through 3 different tax settlers, whom I sent my requested info in May 2011 and July 2011. But I kept getting emails saying they have not received my requested information.

Is there anyone who knows anything about a class action suit against them?

I post-dated a check to get services started and they debited my account the next day.

I called them and they put my account on hold. She asked me to send in a bank statement to prove that the account was debited in error. I got caught up trying to get the money I needed to survive and today, they debited my account twice. They told me that they are not giving my money back at all; not even one payment so that I may survive.

I thought these jokers could help, but I was wrong. Like a lot of these people, I paid them money ($800.00). After several months, nothing. Finally, I had another meeting with a consultant at one of their many satellite offices. I owed in the neighborhood of $5000. Their offer to me was pay them another $3000 and they would settle everything with the IRS. I read the paperwork, looked at the guy and asked, "are you ** kidding me? I asked him to do the math. I wrote emails, called them, nothing. Finally, I got a release from them promising $600 of my $800. But like everyone else, I have received nothing.

In January of 2009, I contacted JK Harris to help solve my tax problems. I have paid $4,500 and JK Harris has yet solved anything involving my taxes. Now, I am hiring an attorney just to get a refund. I will not recommend this company to anyone being that they are crooks.

In 2007, I hired JK Harris to handle my back taxes that I owed. The gentlemen that we talked to was very convincing that all our problems would be taken care of. After numerous phone calls, leaving messages that we wanted to talk to someone, no one ever called. We paid JK Harris over $3500.00. I heard today that there is a class action suit in progress. I don't know where to start a class action. I would like some info on what I can do. I can give more info about dates and money paid in to them. Thank you for your help.

The State of Texas reached an agreement with J. K. Harris. The settlement check they sent in August 2011 bounced. They continue to do everything to keep your money and not honor anything nor, apparently, help anyone.

They took my money $4,900, made all kinds of promises and after 6-8 months, no settlements were done. They never called the IRS. We called them and confirmed it. My bank accounts were seized and this is now on our credit report, which made my husband lose a great job potential.

My wife and I signed an agreement on 9/22/10 for services with dealing with the IRS for tax years 2007 and 2008. We paid monthly installments totaling to $2,590. We stopped automatic withdraws from our checking account because we never received a call from them or answered any of my 10+ calls to them. We wanted to know what we were getting for the money we already paid because there was no audit representation or Federal Stream Line installment Agreement. The only thing they did was ask the IRS for a Master File and IRP for 07 and 08. That cost $300.00.

They also made one phone call to the IRS since I had to pay the IRS. There was nothing more for them to do. After contacting the Better Business Bureau in SC, we found out that they have had over 720 complaints against JK Harris. On 4/01/2011, they sent us an offer to pay us $690. We wanted at least $2,000 of the $2590 we paid them and got nothing at all for our money. Being seniors on limited income and having to pay the IRS $370 a month just on interest and penalties without touching the principal, we decided to settle for the $690.

We signed, dated and faxed their general release back to them. I have the TX Result Report showing the faxed was received by them. After waiting for over a month, I tried calling and leaving messages but never a return call. I called the BB Bureau and they tried calling. They finally told me they would give up. HOW can a company like this still operate and cheat people out of their money, with more than 720 complaints against them?

Back in Oct 2010, I met with Scott **, representative of JK Harris, in regards to back taxes that I owe the Internal Revenue. He assured me that they are a great company and he assured me that they would help me. I felt very comfortable because I desperately wanted to resolve this issue. I gave them my checking account information to take payments electronically. I never once received any documentation stating that the work was done. He assured me that all the information went to the IRS.

I have a payment agreement with the IRS faithfully every month. I have asked if anyone has been inquiring information on my behalf, the answer has been always no. Also, to file my taxes would be 30.00 because I was a customer. Once Feb 2011 came, I call to file my taxes. JK Harris told me 425.00 to file. I spoke with David **/ Micheal ** , they assured me that everything was going good and not to worry. Today almost a year later and nothing has been done. I have left messages, no call back. Please help.

I hired JK Harris in 2007 to help me with a tax issue. I was told they could help me settle the debit. All they did was drag it out for two years and in the end, the IRS garnished my Social Security Check in the amount of $250.00 per month.

JK Harris did nothing to help me at all. They just charged me $4500; they stole my money.

Now it's too late to do anything, and they dropped my case in 2010. With no explanation to me other than it was settled.

Don't get sucked into JK Harris fraud!

I have hired JK Harris to help me with my tax problem. I paid them $1350.00, and they wanted more. I really cannot afford more. Now the IRS has levied my social security by 15 percent. Each month of which, I cannot afford. It takes money from me that I need to live on. I called them to get my money back, and they told me I could not get it all. The only thing they wanted to give back to me was $157.00. What a rip off. I really don't care how many people they claim to have help-- it's a money gimmick.

In 2006, I was audited by IRS and owed around $23,000.00 from 2003. I hired JK Harris Firm and I paid them a total of $2,800.00 to work my case. They kept running me around and said that they were still working on it. Almost eight weeks went by, I called them and said that this is not working out and I am getting four letters a week from IRS for payment arrangements. I called JK Harris Company and told them that I wanted a refund on what I had paid them so I could start paying on this arrangement for IRS. JK Harris said that we cannot refund the money paid for the services they did. I wrote a letter to their company and finally, they sent me only seven hundred dollars and some change back. I want everything I paid and if I can get some help from a law firm in Nashville, TN, that would be great.

It cost me a lot of money and added to what I owe IRS and put me further behind. We almost lost our home and put me and my wife on the verge of a nervous breakdown. We had to file bankruptcy to keep our home.

In August of 2010 I met with Mr. Frank Piecka a consultant for JK Harris to discuss my situation and to see if I qualify for their services. Mr. Piecka informed looked over the documents that I had brought with me. He determined that we needed to meet again. On September 3 of 2010 I met with Mr. Piecka he told that I did qualify for their services. Mr. Frank Peicka informed me that they would be able to gather all of my documents and determine how much I would have to pay to the Department of Revenue.

At that time I was told I would need to pay them a fee of $830.00 for those services. I said wow that is a little steep. Mr. Piecka said that it might turn out that I would only minimal help from them and this would be all I would have to pay. Around Octocber I met with Mr. Piecka again. At this time he informed me that they could help me and settle my debt for a small amount. It sounded good. He also said that It would cause me $2500.00 for their lawyers and tax professionals to make sure that this small amount would be all I would have to ever pay on this debt. Once they contact Massachusette Department of Revenue with my income and ability to pay, I wouldn't have to worry about this debt any longer. I argued the fact of paying them $2500.00 plus the $830.00 I had already paid that I could have actually given this amount to Mass DOR and would have paid a third of the debt. Mr. Piecka informed me that I would continue to accure fees which would keep adding up and this small amount would not even put a dent in the debt. I contemplated this and told Mr. Piecka there is no way I have $2500.00 to do this.

Mr. Piecka called someone in his home office and told them my situation. I was then informed that they could take payments and that they would use $500.00 of the $830.00 I had already paid. Mr. Peicka assured me that I would not have to pay more and that my tax problems would be resolved. I asked If his company (JK Harris) did not settle my tax debt what would happen to all of my money. He plainly said to me, then we (JK Harris) would have to give you your money back. Mr. Piecka made me feel confident that JK Harris lawyers and tax professionals would settle this for me. I told Mr. Piecka that I had did everything that I could to settle this on my own. Mr. Piecka said that their lawyer know all of the tax laws and the tax professionals would be working for me, therefore I need not worry. Her we are 9 months later and I am out of $2830.00 with no resolutions and on top of that, they will not refund me not one penny of my money. Please what can I do. This is robbery and I am the victum.

I was audited by IRS back in 2007. I consulted JK Harris to take care of it on my behalf. They promised that they will start immediately contacting the IRS and get the information and I shouldn't worry. One week passed and nothing happened. I contacted the IRS audit officer to ask if anyone called on my case and he replied, "No, not at all. He told me also that I can do what they will do for me. The officer waived some of the penalty for me and advised me to get my money back from them ASAP before they start. I did contact them asking them to stop my case immediately and they did. I paid them $1400 the day they had me in their office for filling application. I requested the money back since they did absolutely nothing. A few months later, they send me a letter indicating that all they owe me is only $600 some. I was crazy and said why?

Until today, more than 3 years and I've received nothing, not even the $$600 some they promised. I don't know what to do. Are we in USA or Nigeria! Can someone help me here?

I contracted with JK Harris in October 2010 to help settle some tax issues including a possible levy. They dropped the ball and did not file a tax return that the IRS was waiting for, and because of that, the IRS levied all the money in my bank accounts. JK Harris admitted that they did drop the ball and promised me a refund of the $3100.00 I paid them for this terrible service. I signed a release and was supposed to have my refund by the end of April! Now they won't take my calls or my emails. And of course no refund yet!

I spoke with the Consumer Affairs Bureau in SC, where their Corporate Office is and I was told by them that there have been 132 complaints filed against them and they never answer the complaint. How do they get away with this?

Like most people, I have some tax issues. I reached out to JK Harris to help with this issue. I heard all this great advertising about how they help you with your tax problems, promising they will work with the IRS to solve them. They know all the laws. They are ex-IRS agents, so they can definitely help. Well, all they did was charge me $2500.00, filed some forms, and had me waiting and waiting.

Then, they sent me a letter stating that my account was closed with the IRS. All I did was fill out an offer of compromise and send it to them. They did absolutely nothing but take my money. I could have filled out an offer in compromise on my own and sent it to the IRS. They claimed they could solve and get my IRS issues taken care of. I would like to file a class action suit against them. If you have any information for me, I would greatly appreciate it. I know there are other people out there that they ripped off.

JK Harris and Company had me sign a receipt and general release agreeing to pay me back money for service not rendered, but paid in advance. It's been over two years since services were prepaid and almost a year since the release was signed and returned.

To me, as an average consumer, this is unacceptable behavior from a firm that deals with sensitive IRS cases. It was absolutely stressful and I was eventually hospitalized for the stress endured from them not paying back money that was rightfully mine in the first place. To JK Harris, the funds are petty change. To me, the funds are my families survival. The recruiter had no problem obtaining my funds via their main offices in Goose Creek, SC, but they ultimately refuse you the funds when they are obviously rightfully due to the consumer that paid them.

We paid JK Harris $5,000.00 to help us with the IRS. They did nothing but make our situation worse. They told us to make an offer and compromise. We did all the paperwork and waited and waited while penalties and interest piled up for about 2 years. Then they sent us a letter that said we would never be accepted by the IRS for a compromise because we have equity in your house! They knew this all along. We got lied to and it has caused us to become much deeper into debt to the IRS! We need our money back just to help pay our horrible IRS debt!

My story is a lot like most peoples issues that Ive read on this page. JK HARRIS is the worst company i have ever knew. They are definitely a scam going on here! I had at least 7 or 8 people that so called represented me , throughout the time ( 5 years ) I payed them thousands of dollars. JK HARRIS kept changing my contact person.Actually the first person I had representing me , I quote: be careful with this company they are not to be trusted , unquote. He shortly after that left JK HARRIS. I had to start with a new representative.

There was a lack of communication on JK HARRIS side to me. When I called my representative, I didn't get a response, a lot . I was told be JK Harris that I was to communicate with the IRS, and the IRS said it was very unusual for this since JK HARRIS was representing me.I then had to go back to JK HARRIS and tell them what the IRS had said. This was very hard to do. I want to get my money back from JK HARRIS for horrible service and the way they represented my company and me.I definitely have a case and I want to file a law suit to JK HARRIS.

These so called "Tax Attorney" have scammed me. I've paid over $7,000.00 for them to help settle my tax debt with the IRS and all they have done is shuffle my account around from person to person for the past three years, in short, nothing has been accomplished or expedited. I received a call last week from them, stating that they could reactivate my account for a new discounted fee. This company should be shut down permanently and reimbursement should be paid back to all the people whom they have ripped off!

I found JK and Harris in the yellow pages and thought they would be a good company to go with. That I would qualify for an offer in compromise. Then I decided to do a background check on them the day after I found out my copies of the agreement papers were pretty much blank. I could not see or read anything. Then I started thinking why did he want me to fill out the paperwork that I didn't have any information about it and told me to guess how much everything was. And that he was in a big hurry for me to sign the money orders of $1,025 over to him because he had a flight to catch. I did a background check the day after and found out that they are scamming people all over the U.S. and cancelled them 2-3 days after I found all the information on them.

I got a bill from the IRS for $14,000.00 due to a sale of a home that was foreclosed. I panicked and went to JK Harris for help. They first told me to fill out this form that would give an estimated amount of what he thought I could settle for. He said they could help and "probably" settle with the IRS for about $300.00 plus their fees. I said "don't you need to know what the tax is for"? Is this a real tax or a mistake? He told me, no, they didn't need to know why the tax was there and that I had to pay it if the IRS said so.

After paying almost a $300.00 payment a month (my husband and I were barely surviving as it was and went without to pay this to JK Harris), they came back and said you don't qualify. After several 1-hour drives to Knoxville, I called the main number and got an agent on the phone. She told me to fax her every bill and debt I had. I did this for 45 minutes and then I was told " Oh wait you do qualify, for an additional $2000.00 and we will file the settlement paper for you." Not having any more money to spend, I was advised by a friend to go to a local CPA which I did. He looked at the tax paper by the IRS then asked me about how the tax was incurred and for $50.00 filed a paper to the IRS that this was not a legitimate tax due to the law imposed by Bush regarding foreclosures. The tax was removed by the IRS in 3 months.

Now, tell me, for $1050.00, shouldn't these team of experts known that the first thing they should have done was to see if the tax was even legitimate? I filed a complaint with their department and they denied me because they did paper work. Excuse me; as far as I am concerned (and told them) none of the so called paperwork they did would have needed to be done if they would have known their job! I mean they are supposed to be the number one company in the US and supposed to have all these great CPA's and Ex IRS agents and attorneys working for them. Could no one pick up on the fact that I was being taxed on something I wasn't even supposed to pay? Please help me stop these people!

The way this company portrays themselves and the services they claim to provide is a scam. They are inefficient, basically useless and potentially extremely damaging to their clients. In my experience, they've done nothing I couldn't have done myself and appear to repeatedly be deliberately allowing time to pass so that a situation becomes critical before they act. Then they demand more fees at a time when you, the client, feel you have no choice but to pay to avoid some horrendous action by the IRS.

I've sent numerous documents, statements, etc. only to have them tell me sometime later, after I call them, that the documents were illegible and I should need to send them again. This is nonsense as the documents are perfectly clear. I was charged $700 for them to make a call to the IRS to place a hold on collections. The amount was calculated from the amount owed and the urgency of the situation. The closer to the deadline, the more they can charge because of the clients fear. The call took 10 minutes. I had to be on the phone as well as the Harris rep. and could easily have done the whole thing myself for nothing. They prey on the fear of their clients and provide a service of little, if any, value. I am not dealing with the IRS directly and am very happy doing so.

I went through the whole initial consultation with JK, meeting in person and all that jazz. The next step according to the tax professional was to pay an extra amount of money up front before any sort of work can be done. If I hardly knew what my situation was, how could they require me to pay a huge amount of money before they even did a little research into my situation? Needless to say, this really put me off. I did not commit on the spot as I am very wary of financial companies I see advertised on TV. (previous experiences).

So I decided to research any complaints from JK. If it wasn't for Consumer Affairs I would have probably gone through the same experience as everyone else here. The web is our greatest defense against scam companies. Now I still had to deal with my tax problem at hand and I know absolutely nothing of tax laws. So I went with a suggestion from a close friend that went through a similar situation. Their experience with the Tax Relief Foundation was a very good one. Now I know this is not the arena to boast about their performance (I will save that for some place for positive reviews).

Needless to say my experience was exceptional! They also conduct a full tax investigation before they decide on an amount that's fair. I am just so happy that I caught these comments on JK before making a huge mistake. From now on I will always ask someone I trust for a recommendation, even if it's just to order pizza delivery for the night.

I contacted JK Harris because of an ad I saw for negotiation of pennies on dollar for back taxes to IRS. The total amount I owed was approximately $24,000 + $10,000 in interest and penalty. I had to pay JK Harris $300 upfront and then payments of $320 for 10 months, which was deducted automatically each month from checking account.

Once I provided all my financial data to them, it was agreed that I had no disposable income left at the end of the month after living expenses. Several months after the balance to JK Harris was paid, they did the paperwork for IRS. First, the papers got lost; then, the totals were incorrect. The representative handling the case was changed several times, and there seemed to be mass confusion. Finally, after I received correspondence from IRS threatening to garnish my pay, JK Harris produced their resolution.

The resolution was either an Offer in Compromise of $11,228.00 in cash or to pay $17,163 by making monthly installment payments of $712. Since I had no disposable income left, I was unable to accept either one of the terms. To avoid garnishment, my mother contacted IRS, and worked out a payment agreement with them of $300 a month in addition to claiming zero exemptions each payday. I could not afford even the $300 but my mother assists me in making the payments each month to try to finally get rid of this bill.

We also discussed the Offer in Compromise (OIC) with IRS and they informed me that any individual can make the offer of 20% of total bill to be considered for an OIC. I feel that I was not appropriately represented by JK Harris. The outcome was certainly not what I expected and I feel that once they reviewed my financials, they knew exactly what they were able to do/or not do. $17,000 payable on a $35,000 bill is not really pennies on the dollar. I would like my money back from JK Harris because I don't feel that they did anything for me.

Short version: paid them 1,250.00 to help me with a tax problem, after I made the last payment on June 17, I got a letter from the IRS saying that Stephanie ** , John ** Samuel **, who I have never even knew , talked to, or anything else, would no longer be representing me! I have all the paperwork, receipts, and everything they asked me for (copiers) that letter was delivered to me on Oct. 17. I tried to call their office (during regular office hours) and got a machine telling me to call back during office hours.

I am now out 1250.00 also I lost my job, and everything just keeps going downhill, my husband is losing hids job in Feb. and I still am fighting with the IRS over something I did not do. There is no extra money for anything.

We retained the services of JK Harris to help resolve out tax issues. The ads that are on the JK Harris website were promising and reassuring. Upon contacting a rep, the paperwork was quick and so was the money part. I paid JK Harris $1050.00 to do absolutely nothing! The service was okay at first with the rep stating "We will reduce your liability," "Nothing to worry about." 2 months later, there's still no communication from this company.

We called and requested an update from Carol the rep. She was forgetful and made excuses for the non communication from them. She said she would have the tax consultant contact us for a release so he could act on our behalf to the state. That transaction happened about a week later. 1 month later, we got no response as we are now getting threatening letter from the state to levy! I called and Carol just happened to get the results that day! How convenient!

She stated, "We cannot help you. You have too much money. You have to pay the state everything." I know our income is not that great! My husband was on workman's comp for 16 months with 2 knee surgeries! When I called to complain about my whole experience, it was like talking to a person that read a generic response! Their quality assurance division was a joke! I need further guidance to stop this company and hopefully see some of my fee retuned! Please help! What they did was nothing! I could have called the state of CA and had the same results but $1050.00 richer!

Tax Defense Network is no different than JK Harris or Tax Masters! I was originally ripped off by Tax Masters with a sales pitch that promised me an Offer in Compromise with no results and an upfront fee of 5 grand! Well guess what, I called JK Harris and got the same answer to my tax problems. I did not trust it for a second. So I kept looking for a reputable tax company.

I called TDN and you know what? They told me the same thing as Tax Masters and JK Harris! 5 thousand dollars for an Offer in Compromise that I knew darn well I wasn't qualified for. Finally, I got help from Dave at US Tax Liberty. He didn't try to sell me, but told me exactly what was up and then told me they can't even quote a service fee until they contact the IRS and find out what can actually be done with my case. His number is **, if you still need help.

There is a simple rule to find a good tax help company. If they try to sell you with a reduction right there on the first phone call with that fee right away, then stay away! Tax Defense Network, JK Harris and Tax Masters are nothing but scammers!

In October 2007, I received a notice from the IRS and IDR advising that I owed back taxes. Having seen JK Harris ad on TV, I contacted them and scheduled an appointment. Our contract was for them to file the back taxes and contact the IRS and IDR to schedule to negotiate a settlement. I was told to send them copies of any and everything that I received from IRS which I did. What I didn't know until a year later was that they were doing nothing with the papers I was sending them. When I pressed them for action as described in our contract, they cut off communication entirely.

I paid them $2500.00 to negotiate and clear my tax bill that was never respected and it's been 3 years. They have a nerve to tell me to pay another $500.00 and they will correct with IRS. The required refund is still waiting.

a down payment and monthly payment by our bank account every month $308 dollars. Each time we call for update status with the IRS and we don't have any good answer, very poor orientation from them. Only solution we received was a letter from IRS for garnish and levy.

We call JK Harris and the respond was no positive but still asking for monthly payment when we have call a lawyer and paid one thousand for get agreement with IRS for payment plan. We paid to the IRS 500.00 monthly and JK Harris send a statement every month to paid to them when that company do nothing for us. Before that company was another that keep our money and the California Court close the doors for fraud and we still waiting for a refund.

Why the Government let those Company's ripoff the people. My story is too long, we need a Lawyer to suit JK Harris, we owe more because of the delay from them and Company doesn't care for the customer in trouble making money from the hard working people.

We hired JK Harris to settle our tax problem and we were assured that it would be taken care of. After over a year and after they took us for $3000.00, our claim was denied because of Sonya **** who was our caseworker. The IRS called us one day to get some information that I had already given to Sonya ****. The agent was very mad and said that she could not get the information on a timely manner. Sonya **** never followed up with us when she sent the proposal to the IRS to see if we could pay that.

We got a letter from the IRS stating that they accepted the offer which was more than we could pay per month. Sonya never followed up on anything and I believe that they wanted to make an example out of JK Harris by refusing our offer. The time that IRS called us, I had to fax everything that they wanted and it cost me $45.00 to send which JK Harris should have done. I filed a complaint with BBB but to no avail. They still say that they have done what they were supposed to do. Needless to say, when Sonya messed up again with the IRS lady she was let go and another person took offer. By this time, it was too late. IRS has already made up their mind. I wish there was a class action suit in Florida.

I paid these people over $3,000 to sort out my taxes. All they did was lose all the information I had given them. I consider this to be theft and gross misrepresentation. I have to pay the IRS $250 per month for what seems to be the rest of my life.

I went to J.K. Harris office in Columbus, Ohio to get help dealing with an approx. 15K tax bill. Since I was not working at the time, the agent assured me I should file an offer in compromise at $0, and I would probably get my debt forgiven. Fool that I was, I paid the office $2500 to take the action. Months later, they sent me the offer in compromise to review, and just about everything except my name was wrong. They had totally wrong dates, account numbers, phone numbers, social security number, you name it. When I complained, they told me to "redo it with the correct info" and turn it in to the IRS.

Needless to say, the IRS flatly turned the request down, and that was that. J.K. Harris was done. Period. They took $2500 from me simply to fill out one form incorrectly. Now I have received a letter from the IRS that J.K. Harris says they are no longer representing me. Like they ever did! They are con men, plain and simple. Crooks. How the government allows these charlatans to remain in business and out of jail is beyond me.

I hired J.K. Harris because I owed federal and state taxes for '06, '07, '08 and '09. The IRS was calling. I got very worried so I hired J.K. Harris. They told me they would review my tax problem, put a hold on the IRS calls and set up a resolution with the IRS. This is what happened. J.K. Harris takes your ability to pay. There is no set price. You have to provide (They give you a financial kit) and you have to list all your debts, everything! Then you have to bring proof of your debts with you to your next meeting, along with your pay slip.

Then they make a determination on what it is going to cost to help you with your taxes. So it's really your ability to pay! For me that was $2700. I had to pay right then $300 just for them to get started (earnest money). Then you set up a payment plan (Post dated checks). Keep in mind, you have to take time off from work because in my case they only work during normal working hours and not the weekend.

In the end, they did not find any errors on my taxes, did not help me in reducing any penalties and when it came to the resolution, they wanted me to send another debt report with my payslip again to tell the IRS what my ability to pay was. For me, that was going to be $420 a month. I did not agree to that. J.K. Harris told me that is how much it was going to be and there was nothing they could do about that. I called the IRS myself and I was told about two payment plans: one would get reported to the credit bureaus, the other would not. This was never explained to me by J.K. Harris. Also, the IRS asked me what I could afford to pay each month! I could not believe it.

In about one hour on the phone, the IRS set me up with a payment plan of $250 a month. I called J.K. Harris back and told them about this and they had no comment. I asked for a $700 refund (Price of the resolution phase). They told me to contact their QA department. I wrote a letter explaining my situation. Two months later, they sent me a packet of forms to sign and they were only going to refund me $225. I wish I would have never ever got involved with J.K. Harris. They do not do what they promise and I believe they work for the IRS and not you! Please, whoever is reading this and considering J.K. Harris, do not hire them please. This is a very brief explanation of what I went through.

J.K. Harris put me in a huge financial situation. I was scared hoping they could help me. I thought that they could get my penalties reduced and they told me they could. They did not. The payments to J.K. Harris made it hard for me to pay for food and gas just to get to work not to mention a dental payment that came up I could not pay because of the post dated checks to J.K. Harris. They cost me a ton of stress and disappointment, not to mention money! I could have used that money to pay towards the IRS. Unbelievable. The worst money I have ever spent.

This "firm" charged me to amend my taxes. The firm did it wrong and I was penalized. When I tried to call and get a new amendment, they refused to take my call. I called the 800 number to complain and they said that they would look into it but never did. They refused to forward my file with the tax documents to me. I filed a complaint with the BBB and they that they would look into it but finally just said that since the amendment was completed, I could not get my money back.

My wife and I are engineers and worked as independent contractors in the early 2000's for the electric company. We ended up losing our contracts at the same time and ended up having to live off our savings. My wife finally started working again several years after we relocated to California. To make a long story short, she starts being garnished and letters start coming in the mail that we owed $80,000 to the IRS!

So we called up JK Harris after seeing a commercial. They did absolutely nothing! I'm serious. Other than require $600 per month for over two years from the both of us (thinking we we're getting an offer in compromise), we come to find out after continuing to be garnished and harassed by the IRS that they never even filed for any paperwork other than a Power of Attorney two years prior.

JK Harris will string you along just to drain your bank account month after month! I finally got some help from US Tax Liberty; all I needed to do was file my returns for the past several years (we didn't file since the loss of our contracts, we didn't think we had to without an income) and then they set us up on an installment agreement for what we did owe from pulling out of our annuity without prepaying the taxes on it (only ended up owing 15 grand).

Dave was our rep at US Tax Liberty and in hindsight, it was obvious not to use JK Harris by just comparing one conversation with Dave and one with that horrible guy from JK, who only told us what we wanted to hear so he could get our money. JK Harris is 100% the biggest scam you could ever be a part of. They will tell you they can perform miracles when it is really all lies! I'm telling you, if you go to them you will get ripped off!

My husband and I retained JK Harris in 2008 to assist us in a tax issue. After continued communication problems (they refused to answer our calls, return voice mails) and loss of important documentation, we terminated our contract with them and requested a refund. While some services were provided, we were offered reimbursement for a small portion of our pre-paid contract. We received this letter on May 20, 2010 and was told it was "processed" one month later. The letter clearly states we would receive our reimbursement check between 90-120 days (later told this only included business days).

As of today, 120 days has passed. I just got off the phone with Quality Assurance (this was my fourth call in as many months) and was told the following, "QA has no hand in who, how or when a client received reimbursement. The accounting department issues a weekly list of whose check will be going out this week. We were not on the list and many clients have been waiting since 2009. I was not allowed to speak to accounting to find out the status of our check. There is absolutely no way to know when or even if it would arrive."

Do not do business with JK Harris! Thus far, we are still waiting for $3,700 and could be for many years. Also, in the initial contract, it states (in legalese) as a client, you waive your right to retain a lawyer or engage in a lawsuit against JK Harris and the only recourse you have is through arbitration, which, as we found out, is virtually not an option.

I too have been expecting a refund from J.K. Harris in September of this year. I have submitted several emails and received several excuses why it hasn't happened. I was told in writing that I would receive a refund within 120 days after signing their agreement. J.K Harris is a low down, bottom of the barrel, scum of the earth business. Mr. Harris will burn in hell. He is liar and a thief. I'm sure that I'll never see my refund, but I will be a pain to J.K. Harris until I get some type of satisfaction.

Here I am again; it has been a year and you still have not mailed me my refund. My new address is ** Birmingham, AL 35220-4896. My telephone number is **. Read more: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/jk_harris.html#ixzz12Hn5RmYQ.

I paid JK Harris $12,500 five years ago to resolve my tax problems which they said they could take care of. Up until now they have done nothing. They called the FBI and said I was harassing them and I should not be since they told the FBI in South Carolina that I got a full refund. This is not true. They have said I am not entitled to any refund because they tried to solve my tax problems. I do not believe them. The FBI was going to charge me with harassment, but they now have changed their mind since JK Harris lied to them.

They are very mean and rude. Since JK Harris cannot or will not do anything or refund my money, I now still have even more tax problems, liens, garnishments, etc. I also lost my $12,500 to JK Harris, which I could really use now to help me eat and pay rent since I still cannot work much.

I paid JK Harris over $3000 to help me with creditors that were trying to take my property after I refused to let them raise my fixed 3.8% rate to 27% because my income changed. JK Harris was ineffective. Also, after my creditors found out that I hired JK Harris, they expedited their attempts and finally succeeded at taking my land and home.

My Name is Samuel **. I have been expecting a refund from them for the past year and have not received one. I have submitted a couple of emails to them and have made several telephone calls which have gone unanswered and I have not received any call backs from the messages I have left. Here I am again; it has been a year and they still have not mailed me my refund. My new address is **, Birmingham, AL 35220-4896. My telephone number is **. Please, for God's sakes, refund my money.

After we signed contract, we paid total $2700 in time. However, JK Harris' case worker worked with us for a year, then things changed after she no longer working at JK Harris. First of all, nobody ever called us about this change. The last word we heard from that case worker was everything should be all set, just waiting from IRS which might take for a while. We finally called to find out the case worker changed. The case worker was very rude and treated us like a criminal.

She said, she called us but we never received any calls. The said asked for the last 3 months bank statements which we gave to her after a couple of days requesting from bank. Never heard from her again. Then when we called, she said our case was closed. What a scam! We are very hurt by this situation. We feel that they are only interested in the payment we gave to them, not willing to spend effort. Now, they told us that we have to open the new case, sign new contract and the sales person called us right away asking for a new contract. What a joke: the case worker never get hold of us. But sales got hold of us right away.We want JK Harris to evaluate the case **and give us a fair treatment. We want to have the contract re-open. There is no any reason for them to close our case.

I contacted JK Harris. A personal interview was conducted, I furnished all needed information and as we started to make payments, JK Harris dropped us. The IRS, when contacted, stated from Charleston, SC office that JK Harris agency never requested my file from IRS. We are still trying to deal with the IRS, which is a one-way street if anyone else has tried to negotiate and use common sense. JK Harris never responded to calls, emails, letters, faxes, etc. This is pitiful public relations. I feel it is because I am one small case, low profile, low attention getting case. I hope others can deal with them or we all force them to confess negligence.

The claim is from when my wife withdrew funds from IRS to pay for her mother's funeral and many bills (which she is not legally responsible). The IRA company did not take out taxes for IRS. I claim that the IRS is due only taxes on this IRA, no the IRS re-figured our combined total income at a later year. We claim that we have overpaid several times and we want this nightmare to stop.

We hired them to help us with IRS matters and JK Harris collected $1,600.00 in advance for their services that were not performed. We asked for our money back and we do not get a straight answer as to when or if they will return the money. In addition to our problems, JK Harris has added additional stress to our situation and we are missing now an additional $1,600.

I hired JK Harris almost three years ago to help negotiate a settlement with the IRS. They deducted $2,500.00 out of checking account until my contract was paid in full. I provided all documentation, statements, everything they requested to submit to IRS. I finally received a letter from IRS that my Power of Attorney (JK Harris) did not participate in a mandatory conference on my behalf so they denied my offer of settlement.

When I called my account representative, Sherry **, in the South Carolina office, I asked her about the letter. I was told they don't participate in conferences. Then what did I pay them for? I then asked Sherry** who I could talk to about requesting a refund and she placed me on hold or mute. I could hear her clearly saying to another JK Harris employee, "Some people think they are so special. Get a grip."

After she got back on the phone with me, I confronted her about what I heard and of course she denied it. Apparently I was special enough to debit $2,500.00 out of my checking account. I to this day have not heard back from Sherry Black's supervisor and after reading all the other inquiries, I'm not surprised. I've reported JK Harris along with Miss. Sunshine Sherry ** to the Texas Attorney General's Office, the Better Business Bureau of Gooseneck, SC as well as the BBB in Austin, Texas. Every time I see a JK Harris commercial on TV here in Austin, I'm going to call the TV station. I don't understand how they can still be in business.

I hired JK Harris Tax Company to represent us and negotiate a settlement for pay roll taxes. I was not informed of what was happening. I had to call. I had different caseworkers they never returned calls, were rude and uncaring.

I paid 500 for 10 months, they never resolved anything .When I pressured them, I was told that I could pay 2000 dollars a month until I finished paying. I was told that they could lower taxes as I would not have to pay penalties. Not so, I still have an unresolved issue and am out 5000 dollars don't be taken in by these **.

I went to JK Harris after receiving several certified mailings from the IRS for back tax returns. As is the case, I was terrified. I had been laid off from my job, on unemployment, unable to pay my existing bills, etc. After several hours, mountains of paperwork, Powers-of-Attorney, I was told that it would cost me approximately $3,000 with a down payment which I made. I was promised that the letters would no longer come to my house and they would get me a "do not attempt to collect" status until I found a job.

Months and months later, with no communication from anyone at JK Harris unless, I initiated the call. The only thing I received from them were monthly billings which I did not pay and have not paid. The certified letters continued and finally after over a year of constant harassment, I received the "do not attempt to collect," however, we have filed a lien letter. I no longer receive mail from IRS, but I am furious that it took so long and that no communication came from their office to me to update.

When I called them, I would find that I had a new person in charge of my case and they were not familiar with what was going on. There was no team. The only good thing about all this is that I have paid them very little and do not intend to pay them anymore regardless of the contract. They did not do what they said they would do and I lived with the nightmare until they did. Sorry, JK Harris, I would never recommend you to anyone for any reason!

Psychological for a year or so my life was a living hell. Financially, I do not know yet and I still can't find work and will not pay JKH when I do.

I got them to do my taxes & dropped them. I called and they sent me a letter stating I was granted a partial refund of $1,545 after I have paid them $2,100. I signed a receipt & General Release, they said it would take 90-120 days before I got anything. Now look I still don't have my money and that was February 2009. I have called numerous times and no one will return my calls. What kind of business are they running? They take people's money and run with it. I want what's mine. I am stressed out about them not giving me my money back.

I have been a client of theirs for over 4 years and I have had numerous case workers handling my case. Of all there was only one that took all of two days to solve my case. Bridgette I believe is her name. I have paid them and had a problem but still ended up paying you as agreed. Since that time I have become disabled. I don't want sympathy, I just want you to hear this. At the end when it was most crucial, no one from JK Harris handled the IRS. I was told that I was to speak to them so what did I pay you guys for? Then they told me to ignore the rejection of offer and compromise and when I hear from the IRS again to call you back. Then I was told my case is closed because they didn't accept my offer.

I thought you were supposed to take it to the end. I even told the worker I would be willing to try to make reasonable payments and I was transferred to the sales department. I feel like a fool. I don't think it is just unsatisfied customers. They make promises that they don't keep, they hire inexperienced workers, and they don't advise people properly. Half of these young people I am sure never worked for the IRS. I depended on them and told people good things about their company. I asked for support and asked questions, but their people are more closed mouth than the IRS! Well, no more. Now I have a lien on my home, getting ready to levy my SSDI checked again, and other personal problems that I would love to tell you but I am sure that you don't care. I made a mistake and have been trying to fix it with your help but you really let me down!

I hired J K Harris to represent me with the IRS, paid them $3500 to help fix a problem, now they have created an even bigger problem than when we started. One of the employers Erica admitted to making a mistake on August 26, 2010 at 9:00 am. They sent paperwork for another compromise and nothing was updated, they just sent anything to shut us up. We let a lawyer look at the paperwork and he laughed and said what a joke.

We are so unhappy with J K Harris, I would never recommend them to anyone and I would like at least half a refund of the $3500 I paid them. The corporate Gina ** never returned any of our 5 phone messages we left. They never return any phone calls at the office. It is sad that I have to pay to re-open my compromise because of the neglect of J K Harris. having to take time out from work to try and contact people to try and fix the mistakes made by J K Harris, and having to come up with more money to re-open my case. I was making all my payments monthly. I'm worried because nobody would return my calls to let me know anything about my case.

This nightmare with J.K. Harris was over a year and a half ago. We needed to clear up our taxes. I saw their commercial and called for an appointment. Signed all of the forms and releases it took them forever to get anything back to us. Mostly due to the fact someone had lost our file. Every time I sent paper they asked for they would send me a letter that the file could not be completed because they did not have the papers I had sent to them. This was a constant routine with them.

I would send papers to them and they would send me a letter stating that they need the same papers that they had just requested only to find out that they did not get them. I would call and never get a call back. Trying to email was just as bad. At one point with State Taxes, the person I was told the cases had been handed told me that she had no idea what I was talking about and that I had to deal with State myself. I called the gentleman who was working on our taxes. After 6 weeks I finally reaching him, he said, the reason he had not done them was he did not have a S.S.I After I picked my chin up off the floor, I, gave him the S.S. I number.

Several weeks later the IRS papers that he sent were still wrong. They did not have any of my husband's W2's. I called him to let him know that they were wrong and left a message. Three weeks later I called again, He said, (not to worry about it, just file them and they would file an amendment). I told him I will not send them in that way I wanted them done correct. That took a few more months. The worst problem was the State Taxes. Eight months we have been trying to get them to CA. We lived in CA. in 2004, moved to AZ in 2005, 2006, 2007, and WA in 2008. When they filed the State, they filed them all for the State of CA. Sense then CA has garnished my husband's wages for taxes that we don't even owe.

I called the case worker she would not take my call. After a week I spoke to someone else she was somewhat rude. Then I asked if I had signed the revised form for them to do the different states. I think that she was hopeful that we had not. Come to find out we had. So now I am waiting for them to review our file to see what happened so they may be able to fix the problem of the garnishing of the check.

At one point with State Taxes, the person I was told the cases had been handed to someone else told me that she had no idea what I was talking about and that I had to deal with State myself. This has been the worst experience I have ever had in my life. The customer service was horrible. There, business practices are questionable at best. We paid them over $11,000 and still have nothing settled.

After 3 years and over $15,000 paid to J.K. Harris, my wife and I are forced to deal with the IRS on our own. Three years ago, we were told by a J.K. Harris representative that they could settle our $48,000 plus tax debt with the IRS. All of a sudden, we were recently told that the debt is less than the amount of our income and that they could not help us. This is the same debt and income that we had 3 years ago. Had they told us this from the beginning, we could have paid to the IRS already the $15,000 towards our debt. J.K. Harris and companies like these are all scam artists. Our tax debt is still there and we are out of $15,000. My advice, try to deal with the IRS yourselves. We are now forced to deal with the IRS ourselves in order of reaching a payment arrangement. We have received letters on their "intent to levy". We do not own any real property. But they could levy our income if we cannot reach a reasonable payment arrangement.

I had a liability to pay a fine on Income tax. I went to see them with the first letter. They claimed that I needed a thorough tax review done. I paid $1200.00. Documentation was sent to me. I contacted them when I received the documentation which was at the same time I got the bill from the IRS. The tax review that was so necessary to get things started was never discussed with me. Rather they started their scare tactics on what the IRS was going to demand and how much it was going to cost me in addition to what I already paid. Do not use these types of tax services. They are scams. I called the IRS and worked it out with them. They were very understanding and agreed on an amount that I had offered.

My husband had 5 years of back tax debt. He saw the ad on TV for JK Harris and thought it was the way to go. He was scared and nervous, he thought they could help. $6,000.00 and 1 year later, the issue is still not resolved. Every time I call, I am told a different story and the customer service reps are very rude, no compassion or empathy for my husband and I. They are argumentative and instantly on the defense. I have said to them, you must get a lot of calls from unhappy clients because of the way you are instantly defensive, bold and loud on the phone.

My husband and I were told we wouldn't have to worry, they could make a deal with the state and federal government so we wouldn't have to pay penalties or interest. It didn't happen. They didn't even tell us that they had our returns done until I called and asked what was going on. Then they said, "oh, they're finished now and we will mail them to you". They only mailed some of the returns (state). I had to call and fight with them on the phone just to get the federal returns. My husband and I have wasted $6,000 on nothing but lies and deceit. That money could have went to our back taxes. So now, we are at the point where only some of the state returns were completed and they are trying to say we were not contracted for 2003 state, only federal return.

Come on, why would we do only the federal returns and not the state? I am very upset. I feel that this is a scam. We were lied to and treated very poorly. They are misrepresenting what they can do. They are nice when you first walk in and when you are paying them but after you have paid all you owed, you're lucky if you hear from them again. I definitely do not recommend using this company's services. They shouldn't be allowed to prey on innocent citizens who are just trying to set things right with uncle Sam. My husband and I are humiliated and exhausted and now, we have to pay even more to get our '03 state return done. I have lost sleep many nights over this and I am depressed even more today than I ever was.

I contacted JK Harris to help me to settle my back taxes and paid the fee that they had asked. I received very little contact from them and now I have had a lien placed by the IRS, but all the time I thought that JK Harris and Company was working to prevent that from happening, and the money I had paid to JK Harris I could have paid towards my taxes. I feel that they are out for themselves and take advantage of people's mishaps. I never should have put my trust in them, but they make their TV commercials seem so innocent that they can help you, but they don't.

How can a company continue to operate like they do? I've had more problems with the IRS, and lost money for the fee that JK Harris charge and the stress afterwards after you find out that they did not do what you have paid them to do. I hope there's some way that I could be refunded the money I lost with them and that someone closes this company down before they cause more hardship to people who trust them for their services that they do not deliver. Thank you.

Tyrone ****, my JK Harris representative was a smooth talker. He assured me that they would be able to cut my IRS debt down substantially by obtaining an 'OIC' (mine is offer in compromise) from the IRS. Upon the 1st meeting, I was told I needed to make 3 payments of $250 to get the JK Harris lawyers in motion collecting my information and establishing a case for me. From what I've read, I was lucky it was not a larger amount!

After calling me into the office, two more times to get additional information and signatures, I was told that the JK Harris lawyers recommended a payment plan. When I protested, they said they would continue to fight for my cause and I never heard back. It's obviously a well-oiled corruption machine out for money any way they can get it. The more gullible the client, the more they stand to make. I wish I had done more research and taken care of things myself. Visiting JK Harris for help simply added $750 to my $11,000 IRS debt. Not to mention the time it took to meet with them, gather the required paperwork and the stress of waiting and frustration.

In September of 2008, I walked into a JK Harris office scared and confused about my back tax situation. After seeing the advertisement from JK Harris about how much they could help someone like me with the tax problems I was having. I put my trust in them to help me. Being Tax specialists as they claim I went ahead and listened to all the things they said they could and would do for me.

Then after signing a contract worth over 6000.00 dollars it started. The constant things that( I ) had to do, not JK HARRIS, I did a lot if not most of the information gathering and when I tried to get some help from them I was treated poorly and told that is what I had to do and they could not help me. So after a year or so I was presented with the fact that they indeed could not remove any of the interest or penalties from my state taxes which is not what I was told at the start of these proceedings.

So I had to settle for a payment plan for 99 months. Then the fed tax issue became just that an issue, after going back and forth with JK Harris and changing people that were handling my case at least 3 times they got me to the OIC and of course it was rejected. When I asked them about why the penalties and interest where not removed like they said they could and would do. There was a pause in the conversation and then they had no good explanation why that did not happen.

At this point, I asked the JK Harris rep, "What the next move was?" and she told me that I needed to sign another contract for them to continue with my case, When asked what have you done for me for the six thousand I already gave you? They said and I quote " we got you to the offer OIC". So in closing, I just want to say that they did nothing for me. I could not have done myself for the money I gave them. They misrepresented themselves about what they could do for me and I truly believe they should be held accountable for the people like me who are trying to do the right thing in getting these matters taken care of but are not sure or even know nothing about tax laws and programs that are available. I am not a very educated man so being able to read and truly understand the contracts that they provide is almost impossible and I believe they know that and take advantage of this.

I am very upset and disappointed with JK Harris and am not sure what to do or who to turn to. So if any one knows who or how to handle this matter please feel free to contact me so we can put a stop to people like JK HARRIS taking advantage of the average person that works hard for there money and is truly trying to do the right thing by being a productive tax paying member of our society.

On May 4th 2010, in Jackson Mississippi, I signed a contract for with JK Harris to assist me with settling back taxes with the Iraq. From May 4th until June 23rd, I was contacted by Angela J. to complete a form 8821. I had no further contact with anyone from JK Harris until June 23. At which time I e-mailed Angela ***. I have all email traffic. Anglea J. responded with, "Your Professional Staff Recommendation Report was completed and sent to your Consultant on June 4th."

In mid July, I had not received any communications from JK Harris. I contacted my bank and filed a dispute over the charges. That money was refunded to my account. Several days after I was refunded my money, I received notice from the IRS that I was identified as a tax delinquent and had a certain number of days to render payment. As I am still in Iraq, no action can be filed against me by the IRS. JK Harris is the only one that could have made any allegations or notified the IRS of my situation as JK Harris is the only entity other than myself that is aware of my tax situation.

On August 12th, I received at my home in Richland, Mississippi a packet of information from JK Harris outlining what actions I should take with the IRS. This is the first communication I have had with JK harris concerning my case since May 4TH. The same packet of information was mailed to the bank investigator, who promptly made the decision to send JK Harris back the funds I had disputed. I made every attempt to point out that I had not been provided with any services from JK Harris. I even provided an example to the investigator. I pointed out it was like paying for a hamburger. The hamburger is prepared but I never got the hamburger.

Even with this, the investigator had an IQ of 2 minus plant life and could not understand the concept. JK Harris notified the IRS that I was tax delinquent. I am serving in Iraq and am exempted from paying my taxes until I return home. I have been charged $1350 by JK HARRIS and have received nothing. I entered into contract with JK Harris on May the 4th. I had no communication or contact from JK Harris until August 10th. The added stress and worry over my taxes being here in a combat environment caused me many sleepless nights. It has affected my work and my personal relationship with my wife and children and my health. These people took my money like any common thief would

I ran into tax issues for the 2009 tax year. After spending $1500.00 for J. K. services, I received no results. They did not perform any services and I was asked to pay them more to set up a repayment plan to the IRS. With the money that I gave them, I could have used it to pay off part of my debt. I wish I had looked into it more. They put on a good front but in reality they don't do anything they advertise. I did not get any reductions at all! That didn't stop them from collecting me money. I will be paying to the IRS for the next 15 years. Thanks for your service. You did nothing for me and it makes me wonder if your company didn't pay for the so called testimonials.

Well I called in about a tax problem I had, and as soon as I explained my tax hardship, I was asked for 2250 as a down payment for the service. But the total fee was around $6700 for a back tax owed of $40k, federal and state together.

They told me that I can get an offer and I was feeling good about it, but I also told them that I did get a letter from the IRS that I was getting garnished and it was coming within a week or so. Now when I signed up with them, it was 02-13-2010. I was garnished on 3-01-2010. I did send them the letter right after I got it in the mail and they said they would take care of it. So I thought that everything was okay. but when I got my check and my employer told me that they had to garnish my wages because of IRS issues, I was then really **.

They said they would handle it. I never got a call when I left a message. I sent an email. I did everything to get them to pick up. So nothing went well in my favor. Now I get $900 taken from my pay every month. So I just gave up, and I came across a firm that I tried one more time, I didn't want to do another program because of these people. So I gave them a chance and they actually stop the garnishment, resolved the tax issue and I got a refund of the money they took from me. So I can't say that it didn't work out for the best. So if anyone would like to get the help I got, then let me know and I can find the number for you.

After being homeless for a number of years, I did not have any money at all to purchase a stamp. I was not in a position to be able to file my taxes. Since I was recently able to move into the Y and get a viable job with income, I went to JK Harris to find out what they could do for me. I advised Matthew **, the representative, that I did not have the money he requested and could not confirm their services. Then two weeks later, I received a letter from the IRS which was later followed up with a levy against my income.

It made me so mad that I ever met with him. I was not trying to avoid my taxes, but I needed time to file the six years in order to get the right amount I owed. Now I am looking for the lawyers who won the 54 million dollar lawsuit against JK Harris so they can help me. I am at risk of losing my job because of this levy which was just given to me on August 2, 2010.

I paid J. K. Harris $6,500.00 to help resolve my tax problems with the IRS. That was over a year ago. To date, they have done nothing to resolve the issue and yesterday a lien was placed on my property. I am 69 years old 7 my son a 3rd generation Marine is leaving for Afghanistan. I don't need being ripped off as I am in very bad health, my son in Afghanistan, and losing everything I want for my 2 sons. J. K. Harris just gives you the run around, constantly changing representatives, does not even advertise anymore. I'm looking for an attorney who will take on a class action suit against J. K. Harris as I know hundreds of us have been ripped off.

I owed $35,000 back to the IRS. So when I saw the commercial for JK Harris I thought I would give them a call and see if they could help me. Do not trust this company. They immediately wanted me to charge $4,500 on my credit card so they could work on my case. $4,500! After a 20 minutes conversation. That put a bad taste in my mouth. So I started doing some research on how you can reduce your tax debt. It turns out that most of what JK Harris told me they could do for me didn't even apply to my specific case.

I contacted JK Harris in 2009 to help me reduce my tax debt. I didn't file for 2000-2004. Apparently, the IRS will file for you if you don't. So the IRS told me I owed 20k in back taxes and had started garnishing my pay. At JK Harris, they told me, based on my hardship and financial situation, that I was qualified for an offer in compromise and would only have to pay the IRS $1,000. Lies! I paid them $2,200 up front so they could file a power of attorney and stop the garnishment and $1,200 a month for the next 3 months would be my total fees for the POA and the OIC. The garnishments stopped for 3 months.

I called in to see why and they told me my OIC was rejected and there was nothing they could do for me. Then, they told me that I was not entitled to a refund because there is no guarantee for the outcome and the money I paid them was for their services, which they performed! They did nothing for me and took $5,800 from me! About 6 months ago, after searching for some sort of solution to my taxes, I came across settlewiththeirs.info.

According to them, OIC is not even a legitimate way to reduce your tax debt unless the IRS determines that you have no way of repaying the debt, i.e., on your death bed with no job or assets. But they did a tax investigation for free and got back to me with the results the next day. It turns out that I was not entitled to an OIC like they stated earlier, but they said they could reduce most of the interest and penalties on my debt and stop the garnishment indefinitely. I have 12 months left of $250 a month back to the IRS, and then I will be done with this tax debt forever! And they were about 2 grand less than JK Harris. Moral of the story: if it sounds too good to be true, then it is! Stay away from JK Harris. I am filling a complaint to the attorney general, the BBB and my governor! I suggest that you all do the same!

I used JK Harris Service and was totally *** about the service that I got from them. I'm still going through the process of getting my money back from these bloodsuckers but I did find someone to help me. I went to ** and they helped me out. I got a settlement offer with the IRS and I had a debt of $32000 and saved around 25k of the total debt. So I'm happy, and also they never asked for any fees up front before they did some work for me. So go there and see what they can do for you.

I had a Tax issue and it was both Federal and State. I owed around 50k in back taxes. So I contacted JK Harris because I did see them on TV and I thought that since they were on TV, they would be a prime choice for me and I can get this taken care of. Lo and behold, that was really the beginning of my nightmare. They asked me for all kinds of fees up front before they fully understood my situation. The agent told me that I didn't need to worry any longer because they have a good reputation in this industry and that the IRS always gives them the best offers for the clients in his firm.

So I paid 450 dollars up front and that was what he called an initial fee for the Tax Investigation to fully see what the IRS was looking for. So from there, he gave me a fee. When he called me back and said that they could get this resolved for an additional fee of 7200 dollars and that I could pay all of that up front or do installment payments. Well, I also told him that I got letters from the IRS stating that my wages will be garnished and also they were looking to audit me also, so it was a nightmare. He did assure me that I will be protected. So I paid a down payment of 2250 dollars for them to get started and protect me. First of all, I want to say that, I wasn't protected.

I was garnished for 32% of my wages and also they put a hold on my account, a hold on my son's savings account that I've been paying into for the past 8 years and that was frozen. So when I told JK Harris that, he said that they couldn't do nothing as of yet because the IRS already started the process but they can contact the IRS and negotiate and get them to return my funds and release the hold on my accounts. That never happened. So when I asked them to just stop whatever they are doing because I should be able to contact the IRS and get something done myself. I asked for my money back and he told me that since they started working on my case that I couldn't get my money back. And I told him that if I don't get my money back that there will be a big problem. So I'm contacting the BBB, the Attorney General, FTC and anyone else that I have to. I wouldn't recommend them to anyone I know or don't know.

We had sales tax issues and met with a representative in the Melville office. He assured me that JK Harris would be able to help me eliminate my debt. I made payments of $2,000 in order to hire them. They were of no help to me. and I called and wrote to them that I didn't want to continue with them. I wasn't happy with their work. They mailed a letter for me to sign that they would refund $1,500 of the $2,000 payment I made. I signed the release form, which stated that my refund would be issued withing 30-90 days. That was 2 years ago. To this day, I am waiting for my refund. I call and email, and they give me the run around. They tell me they have no news of when I will get my refund.

I don't know what to do, and feel like I have been robbed. I have been taken advantage of. They took $2,000, I didn't get good service and they won't send my refund.

In 2005, I gave JK Harris $3,000.00 and they did nothing but the run around. I am 60 years old and am so scared that the IRS will come after me. I am so upset and more stressed out than I was before I gave JK Harris the $3,000 because I was told it would be resolved in no more than a year. Here I am, 5 years later with nothing but stress!

JK Harris does not perform as they stated they could. In fact they non-perform, push paper around and make promises they never follow up on. I have paid them $4500 and they have done nothing for me. Their work is unprofessional as well as their employees. I've had five case workers and nothing has been resolved. They say they can negotiate with IRS and then nothing gets done. They are sloppy, liars and consistently put you off.

I contacted JK Harris in 2007 after seeing one of their commercials. Let me start by saying that I blame no one else other than myself for putting myself in the situation that I am in. With that said, I contacted JK Harris because I had a substantial amount of back due taxes owed to the IRS. In the first meeting with their rep I was told that based on the information I provided, they felt I would qualify for an OIC (Offer in Compromise), meaning that they (JK Harris) would make an offer of less than what I owed to the IRS on my behalf.

I was told "Not to make any payments until the case was settled because if I made even one payment then that would make it more difficult for JK Harris to get me the OIC!" To make a long story short, after 2 1/2 years, 3 different case managers at JK Harris and two different lawyers at JK Harris, I was told that the IRS rejected my OIC. I could never get in touch with any of my case managers. There were times where my calls went unreturned for weeks and weeks. So in addition to what I originally owed, I accumulated thousands of dollars in penalties and interest that was piled on to what I originally owed. Additionally, I paid JK Harris almost $3,000 to handle my case.

JK Harris promised to help with reducing our tax debt but they did nothing. My husband now has his wedges garnished. I faxed JK Harris to ask to refund our money which they took, about $250.00 for 2009 tax returns. We had someone else do our taxes. JK Harris will not refund our money. They continue to harass us with calls wanting $1,200.00 for nothing.

I contacted JK Harris in 2009 to help me reduce my tax debt. I didn't file for 2000-2004. Apparently, the IRS will file for you if you don't. So the IRS told me I owed $20k in back taxes and had started garnishing my pay. At JK Harris, they told me based on my hardship and financial situation, I was qualified for an Offer In Compromise and would only have to pay the IRS for $1,000. Lies! I paid them $2,200 upfront so they could file a Power of Attorney and stop the garnishment and $1,200 a month for the next 3 months would be my total fees for the POA and the OIC. The garnishments stopped for 3 months. I called in to see why and they told me my OIC was rejected and there was nothing they could do for me. Then they told me that I was not entitled to a refund because there is no guarantee for the outcome and the money I paid them was for their services which they performed!

Complete **! They did nothing for me and took $5,800 from me! About 6 months ago, after searching for some sort of solution to my taxes, I came across SettleWithTheirs. According to them, OIC is not even a legitimate way to reduce your tax debt unless the IRS determines that you have no way of repaying the debt (i.e., on your death bed with no job or assets). But they did a tax investigation for free and got back to me with the results the next day. It turns out that I was not entitled to an OIC like they stated earlier, but they said they could reduce most of the interest and penalties on my debt and stop the garnishment indefinitely. I have 12 months left of $250 a month back to the IRS, then I will be done with this tax debt forever! They were about 2 grand less than JK Harris.

Moral of the story: If it sounds too good to be true, then it is! Stay away from JK Harris. I'm filing a complaint to the attorney general, the BBB and my governor! I suggest that you all do the same!

I acquired the services of JK Harris Co., because I had a problem with the IRS. This was in the year 1995. I never got any help and when I asked for my refund of $1500, I was told that they were still working on my case.

I am like all the rest of the people I hired JKH to resolve a tax problem for me. I was told that they will do away with the tax or reduce the amount that the IRS said I owed. Like many others that I have read, I have been through at least 3 to 4 persons that I was working with .One was fired the very hour that I called in to talk to her. They very rarely call to tell you what is going on with your account and when you do get through to somebody, they give you the run around.

I could go on with my complaint. Just do not use JKH. They do nothing but take your money.

I hired JK Harris to resolve a possible tax issue. I paid them a retainerof $1550. It was later determined the tax issue resolved itsself and their services were not needed.We agreed to a partial refund of my retainer ($975). I filled out all necessary paperwork to have JK Harris release my funds. That was 9 months ago. I have sent no less than 25 e-mails couple with over a dozen phone calls. Although approved to receive my refund, I have yet to receive my check. This is a copy of the letter sent to the CEO (as well as several other executives and Case Specialists):

I am writing you because I have no other recourse within your company. For several months I have been seeking my refund $975 (the remainder of the retainer). I signed the release forms in September, 2009 and was informed my refund would be sent in 90-120 days.

I have sent several additional emails as well as made several phone calls requesting my refund. Regardless of the form of communication, the reply was standard and without resolution:

"We are issuing refund checks as quickly as possible and apologize for the delay. We will contact you directly as soon as we have an exact issue date... Please feel free to send an email or call."

Most recently (on several occasions) I've requested a supervisor's contact info. Here's how your Quality Assurance Department replied: "There is not an individual supervisor that handles the refunds." As a fellow executive I would be most concerned how the "Quality Assurance" Department handles customer related issues- especially without supervision. I think you would agree that, at this point, I am getting the run around.

I have accumulated 15 pages of email correspondence (I have copies if needed) that aptly documents the inordinate amount of hours I've dedicated trying to have JK Harris issue my refund check.

It has been 8 months since my initial request, please advise how JK Harris intends to resolve this issue.

JK Harris submitted a compormise to the IRS for back taxes I fell behind in. They submitted the OIC knowing the IRS would not accept the offer because I was and still are Unemployed. When I told them they needed to refund my 2000 dollars because of the deception, they stated they did all the paperwork and thier contract was finished. The lady I spoke with at the IRS stated to me that 98% of the OIC's submitted by JK Harris are turned down. Good track record. I was turned down again in refgerence to my refund from JK Harris. I would and do tell everyone I know not to do business with JK Harris.

On April 10, 2007, I consulted with JK Harris & Co. in reference to a problem that I was having with the IRS. I thought I had back federal and state income taxes that were due from prior years. I was informed that I had to file all taxes for all years that I had not filed, which were tax years 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 and 07. After filing all outstanding taxes that I had not filed I begin to get refund checks from the IRS. I could not understand way. Finally, I telephone the representative that was handling my case (michael B) to find out why I was getting the refunds when I owed back taxes. Mr. B informed me that I did not owe any back taxes. I then telephones the IRS a find out that the taxes that I thought I owed was discharged in 1995 and 1996. I then went to the Circuit Court of Baltimore City to pick up the copy of the release information.

I then telephoned Mr. B to find out what happen to the payment of $4,800.00 that I had paid to JK Harris and Co. I was informed that several documents had been filed with IRS at a cost of $2,208.00 and I entitled to a refund in the amount of $2,592.00. On July 19, 2009 I received a Receipt and General Release form to sign and return to them. The letter stated, "once we receive the signed release, it will be forwarded to our accounting department for processing". We will process your signed General Release in the order in which it is received, and this process could take between 90-120 days.

As of today, June 26, 2010 I have not received the refund check. Almost a year later. I have sent several e-mails to the company and the only response that I get is "we are processing refunds as fast as possible, we will e-mail you when your refund check is ready". I cannot understand why JK Harris had to charge me $2,208.00 when the IRS had discharged my case in 1995 and 1996 and I did not hire them until 2007. What took them so long to find out I did not owe the money.

There were numberious people that I discussed our tax issues with. After paying aprox 13,000 and approx 3 years of corespondence with JK Harris there never was a resolution. It was impossible to get JK Harris to put into writting to me the steps that they took to resolve our IRS tax obligation. We were told we would only have to pay 500 in taxes to the IRS. Incorrect the IRS rejected out paperwork. JK Harris washed their hands of this, refussing to return calls or taking this matter to another lever.

paid a large sum of money to get help negotiating with IRS. The did nothing and would not ever return my call or emails. STAY FAR AWAY FROM THESE PEOPLE. Request was sent too late to IRS and several thousand dollars lost.

IRS was not knocking at my door but I thought the right thing to do is catch up on my IRS so I would have piece of mind.

With all the knowledge your company clams to have you, would think at my initial request for help, the advise would have been "Mr -- we feel that with your case you would be better off dealing directly with the IRS" I was presented with false hope and will do my best to make sure that this never happens to anyone else

After you very clearly understand what J.K. Harris and Company will actually do on your behalf and what their advertisements and staff imply they will do, and then decide to use their services, be very, very careful that you fully understand the Terms and Conditions on the "Engagement Agreements" you will be asked to sign or initial. You will likely to be asked to sign more than one document. Do not assume that the Terms and Conditions on both are identical; they may well not be. You may suffer consequences because you thought they were both the same since they seem to "look" the same.

It has been a couple years now since I have been dealing with JK Harris to get my tax issue resolved. I paid $2,500 to have an installment agreement and after waiting tirelessly to have anything done and with threats from the IRS I decided to do the negotiation myself. The amount that the IRS wanted was more than I could afford so I called JK Harris and told them the situation.

I then decided that an offer in compromise might be better than installments so I told them I want to do an offer in compromise. I have been waiting for months after months and nothing gets done. Have been through several case specialist and each new case specialist knows nothing about the case. It takes so long for them to do anything that by the time they send you a bunch a forms to sign, the information is outdated. There is now a lien on my wife's property. JK needs to be put out business. I have nothing good to say about this company.

They took my $500. They did nothing. I signed a review and oversight refund for $375. It was approved and I was promised a refund in 120 days on 3 September 2009. No response to date. Mr. ** said it might be years to get my refund.

I was told to pay $2,550 up front by Walter ** who represents JK Harris in the Midland ,Texas Area. He Is from New Mexico & JK Harris would get my taxes lowered by IRS. I was then contacted by Latoya ** in Goose Creek SC who said a consultant would contact me. This never happened. Now I owe my Son $2,550 and still have problems with IRS.

I meet with their representative, told him my tax problems. He said would easy that that's what they do. I set up auto pay, throw my bank {I made all the payments} sent them tax information. Talk to comp. counselor, was then reassigned to different counselor a couple later, weeks later yet another counselor. I received a letter requesting more information after send what they request then I was given the run around when I would call.

I paid in good faith and got nothing, I still have my tax problem and my bank account is a little lighter. I did try to call them and find out what happened after yet another half run around and being put on hold 4 times. I was told that they would review my case and respond with in 48 hour that was 2 weeks ago this is a scam from start to finish. Any help would be thankful. I am going through a divorce. I was looking to them for resolve, they misguided me. I feel robbed and taken advantage of.

J.K. Harris and Company evidenced that anyone thinking of using this firm should approach them very, very carefully, and should be completely certain that they clearly understand what services will be provided. They should not be mislead or confused by inferences in advertising statements or those that are made by J.K.Harris personnel inferring what the firm will do. J.K. Harris and Company has failed to refund payment which they agreed I am entitled. Further, in calculating the amount, the cited conditions in their contract that were not present, and made (intended?) errors in simple calculations.

JK.Harris took $3500.00 of our money and did nothing for it. They sat on our case for a year and when the IRS started levying our accounts, it took a week just to get a hold of the woman working with us. We could not make our house payments or pay our bill. This situation forced us into bankruptcy.

We almost lost our home and the credit is shot. I could go on but whats the point? We just want our $3500.00 back.

I contracted JK Harris on April 22, 2009 to resolve my back taxes problem with the IRS and the State of California. By mid-May, the company had reached a settlement with the IRS and had the levies against my bank accounts lifted. The resolution of my State of California tax problem has been a nightmare. JK Harris started working on my case in the end of May 2009, and there still has been no resolution as of April 2010.

In July 2009, a JK Harris agent called me to resolve my IRS problem. I informed the agent that that was a done deal and I need to get the state resolved. 9 months later, I'm now getting threatening letters from the state tax board, and they are demanding immediate payment. Since May 2009, I have had 3 different case specialists. The latest one came on the heels of a reorganization that was designed to improve customer satisfaction.

I am far from satisfied. I have faxed the same financial info over and over. It seems the communication from specialist to specialist is far from seamless. I never missed a JK Harris payment. Unhappy with the service, I tried to reach a supervisor. I tried to contact the supervisor for over a week, left messages, and never received a return phone call.

When I called last Friday, I was put in the que and had to listen to mindless commercials on relieving my tax-related stress. I was disconnected 3 times in a row. Since I could not reach a supervisor, they end up putting me through to the same specialist whom I was trying to log a complaint against. I reached my boil-over point when she asked me to sign another power of attorney form for the IRS.

I explained that an agreement with the IRS was reached last May and that I'm getting threats from the state demanding immediate settlement. I asked her to focus on the state issue versus trying to cover ground of a year ago. I also pointed out that since JK Harris did the IRS settlement, she might want to read the company records to verify. She stated that her records showed no such activity and that JK Harris must contact the IRS to ensure an agreement was reached.

I asked if my bank statements for the past 4 months showing IRS payment were not enough proof, but she stated she must confirm the deal herself. I told her since I had less than one week to avoid another levy on my account, I wished JK Harris would work on the state problem.

Worried about the letters I received from the state, I went home and contacted the state tax board. I explained my issue with JK Harris and also stated that I really wanted to resolve my tax problem. The state tax advisor asked what I could afford and the basic financial questions. In the same call, I had the settlement I had been asking JK Harris to negotiate for me for almost a year.

I would never recommend this firm to anyone. I am asking for a refund on the state money I have paid out to date. Reading the letters posted on your site, I guess I will not be holding my breath for the refund.

The fall of 2007, I met up with a rep for JK Harris and signed the "contract" for their services. As nothing was happening, I was in touch with the IRS and got that mess straightened out. JK Harris didn't do a thing except take my monthly payment for "nothing". So I asked for a refund and it went through a process for months then I received a letter stating my refund was approved. Minus the 25% of it for them I would get my refund in 6 months.

Working days no weekends or holidays, so I should have had the refund of $1816 around April of 2009. It's April of 2010, still nothing except excuses. The customer service people say they are working on it as quick as they can and I will be notified when the check has been issued. I call every week for an update and it's the same song and dance and I'm beyond peeved! They say the same script and I am so tired of it! That's pretty sad when you're given such a hard time and they went against their contract to boot. I want interest on the money. I know, right!

I paid them $5,000 to help me with offer and compromise with IRS. They also was to help me prevent liens and levies against me. They did not as a levy was presented against my payroll acct. and lasted a month. Finally, they said the IRS wanted a payment of $844 by December. They never did anything for me.

I could not pay any creditors during this time. I still am paying a huge payment to state in federal each month with penalties and interest. I am going to have to file bankruptcy as I can. I am 71 and single and drawing SS and trying to workout and pay my creditors and this tax debt.

I contracted JK Harris to do an offer in compromise. It took them over a year basically to even start the compromise. I had to keep calling to even get them to start it. I talked to a new person each time. They did not inform me that if I owed the government the following year, the offer would be void. Major flaw in communication. I then asked them to start over, including the new year taxes owed since I was not told that this would affect the offer. They told me the contract was over and they could not help me further. What a waste of money, I'm 34 and still owe the government a ton of money. I thought this would help but all they did was hurt me more..

I paid JK Harris to represent me with the IRS and paid $4,000, and the first offer to IRS was rejected. I did an appeal, and the second offer was rejected. I found out from the IRS that JK Harris did not forward the package of information to the IRS. I was lied to. JK Harris said the IRS turned the offer down because did not change from last offer. I overnighted a package to JK Harris, and they said they would forward it to the IRS. They did not! I am out $4,000, and they wasted my time and money. And most of all, they lied!

I contracted JKHarris to help me with my IRS issue in 2008. Only to realize it is still dragging out now in 2010. I have gone threw 3 case workers only to have mis communication and no communication at all. I continue to call and call and fax in writing and call only to realize that they breach our contract. And when I called, I speak to a different person each time. I had paid my payment up until the last payment only to realize that I'm paying them to do nothing. I had to go to the IRS Building in Richmond Va, to speak with them because I was still getting letters saying they were going to put liens on my truck and garnish my wages.

I'm paying JKHarris to do something and they are taking my money. I was given a tax advocate from the IRS and I had to revoke my JKHarris Power of attorney on my case which was Mr. S. I called him twice only to get no response. I then called back to ask why do I have to pay the last payment when JKHarris did nothing and now I have a tax advocate. My tax advocate said there were big communication gaps in my case and I also had to send paperwork to the IRS because JKHarris wasn't. I faxed letters to the complaint dept only to get no response. Now I have Plaza associates calling to collect the last payment for JKHarris and no one will contact me from JKHarris about my case. I have had the worst experience with this company and would never recommend it to anyone.

I am still trying to deal with JKHarris about breaching the contract. I have been so stressed out and continuing to get headaches because of them. I am giving them to the end of March 2010 to get back with me about this matter. If not, I will have to go to a legal matter.

In 2002 I met with an agent who told me they could settle my $10,000.00 debt for $3,000.00. I paid them that amount plus interest. Months went by and I gave them a call. I was told to contact the IRS, but I paid them to represent me.

As a result of a tax issue and after seeing the numerous ads on TV, my wife and I called and set up an appointment and met with a JKH rep. on 1-16-2008. $8,000 later and we had no results. They lied. We've sent in the requested paperwork and have paid approximately $8,000 and they haven't done anything to help us. But one thing they can do is harass us for payment! We even paid extra for them to get their emergency team to work on our case asap and stop my wife's wage garnishment. That, too, was a bald face lie.

After reviewing the class action lawsuit info online, it is quiet evident that JKH's mode of operation is to "string you along", until they've received their money and do absolutely nothing for the "customer". Time and time again, state after state, customer after customer, the story is all the same. They should be stopped cold in their tracks! Please, allow us to be part of a class action lawsuit in Alabama. Perhaps if JKH is hit hard enough, each and every time they mistreat some trusting individual, they will either clean-up their act or go out of business. They have cost us $8,000 approximately and have not done anything to help us resolve our tax issue. Please help us.

We requested a refund on Nov. 9, 2009 of $1650. We met with a company representative named Mr. Chase L. on Oct. 1, 2009 in a company office in Ocala, FL seeking help resolving a lien on my credit report dating from 1992. He advised my wife and I that they would take care of our problem and requested a deposit for $750 and additional deposit of $900 for JK Harris Advisors. We made it clear we did not need tax planning as our income is minimal since we are retired and living on Social Security.

However, he insisted we needed both deposits to remedy this situation. As of six months later, the only correspondence had been cookie cutter tax planning form. We have not received and contact from JK Harris concerning our tax problem. Why are these people still allowed to operate? Can you help us to get some kind of refund from this company? The internet message boards are full of similar complaints.

I hired JK Harris to help me with an IRS problem. I had and believed they were helping me, or at least, they told me in every phone call that they took care of the problem. It got to a point I almost got arrested. No one ever called the IRS on my behalf and even talked to the IRS. It cost me over 10,000 dollars to hire lawyers and CPAs to help me who also heard horror stories. Never hire this company. They lie, lie, lie. The psychological damage I suffered, the worrying, and the fact the U S government allows them to ** people and false advertising amazes me.

We have been with JK Harris since December 2006. We paid them $13,000. My husband had a real tax mess, then we got audited. Now the IRS wants us to pay $1051.00 monthly. I called JK Harris. They really aren't doing anything, we can't pay this monthly payment to the IRS. We are a small business and have financial issues like the rest of the world. We lost about 80% of our business, I have the papers to prove it. I heard all kinds of bad things about JK Harris, never having a bad experience with them, probably because we were suckers and paid them all this money. I remember when we were getting audited, we met with someone from JK Harris. He told my husband and I that he would have to charge us $6000 for the audit. Well, I cried and blubbered so much that he reduced the price to $3000. We had to put so much down, then they would take payments monthly out of our checking account.

Sounds fishy, huh? I should have known then. We are just so desperate to settle this with the IRS and trusted JK Harris. I can still hear the guy saying to us "we can fix this for you". Well, it has been 2 years and $13,000 later, my husband's back taxes are done but we still don't have a settlement with the IRS. I don't know what we are going to do next! I am scared and I don't know who to trust anymore. I wish someone had the power to stop companies like JK Harris. I will tell everyone I know and I will badmouth them to everyone that I can.

I saw their commercials about helping people deal with their tax problems so I contacted them. I was connected to South Carolina with Kathie ** who will be my representative but I did not know that I was dealing with a con artist. The company took $500 from me and I never heard from them again. Finally, after calling and leaving messages upon messages, Kathie contacted me and said that if I want to pursue the matter, it is going to cost me more. So that was the end of my money.

I met with a representative from J.K.Harris, named Chris **. I told him that I owed back taxes, and was looking to settle. He did the math on his calculator and showed me his figures. He said it looks like we are looking at an offer and compromise. He said for $1500, J.K.Harris could get the IRS to settle for $1200 to $4000. I asked, then would it be settled? He said yes as long as you keep current with your future taxes. If not I will still owe everything. I said "great, lets do it." He had me sign some contracts. I did, but after that sham of a company took my money, all they did was to release my work levy.

I called and asked when they would do the offer and compromise, and was told that they never said they would settle. I even called Chris ** and he denied ever telling me those figures. I said well how did I know those figures then? He said I must have been told that by another person I spoke to on the phone. He was such a liar! I could not believe he was such a scammer. They never settled and the IRS still came after me. I wrote the oversight department asking for a refund, but was denied. Do not use .J.K Harris! They are a bunch of crooks!

In desperation, my husband and I went to JK Harris (JKH). Their ad says you get to meet face to face with a real human being. Ha, what a joke. Yes, that human being is a super used car salesman type who tells you if you sign the contract with JK Harris, all your troubles will disappear, because they are experts and can handle everything... for a large fee.

You become so relieved to hear that someone can "fix" it; you fall for their line. We were vulnerable, and they count on that. They prey on scared, vulnerable people. After the initial meeting, there is nothing but changing staff, having to explain your situation every time you speak to the new "personal" case worker, only that person is different every time you have a question. I am not sure whether they go through personnel, because people see their dishonesty and quit, or what.

So after weeks and weeks of frustration at not getting any answers and doing all their bogus paper work, we still had no one actually negotiating anything on our behalf with the IRS. They had our six thousand dollars and a huge amount of our time taken up with their "busy work," but nothing regarding the IRS. We kept getting the letters from the IRS and calling JKH over and over. No one would return calls, and even if they did, they had no answers. And in the meantime, the IRS just kept on coming at us.

Finally, I got so exasperated, fearing the worst was about to happen, that I called the IRS myself. I was connected to an agent who listened to my story over the phone and gave me a list of things to do: get my cars appraised, fill out a form he was going to send me, make copies of a few items, and send it all to him. I did what he asked in one day and sent it to him the next day, and I waited.

After about two weeks, he sent me a letter telling me what to pay. Simple. From a forty three thousand tax debt down to six thousand dollars. No wasted time. No garnishing. No threats. And no fees. Just the amount of tax he determined I needed to pay. Most definitely, a settlement down to a fraction of what we owed.

In this tax climate, I can't say that the collectors would do it now, but honestly, dealing with them was much easier than dealing with JKH. Plus, the same man called me each time, and I had a direct phone number to him. I once told him that I was so tired of all of the tax mess and worrying about it and worrying about what I had paid JKH for nothing, and that for all I care, they could come arrest me for tax fraud if they wanted to, because I needed a paid vacation.

The IRS guy laughed and said, "Not paying your back taxes was not considered tax fraud, and the government did not want to give me a vacation." All in all, as fearsome and intimidating as the IRS can be, dealing with this agent was a thousand times better than JKH. In the end, we paid both of them the same amount. We could have saved our selves six thousand if we had just gone to the IRS first.

Of course, when we tried to get our money back, because we actually settled directly with the IRS, they just played the "contract" card. No one who is in tax trouble has the money to go after them legally, hiring lawyers and taking them to court for not upholding their end of the bargain. So JKH gets away with it. If we had that kind of money, we would just pay our taxes and be done with it. I think they count on that, and that's how they stay in business.

However, we were told by our accountant that if we filed a small claim against them in small claims court and that more than likely, no one would show up to represent them, the judge would then automatically rule for us. For those of you who would like to try that, it might be worth the effort. JKH is a scam company, preying upon scared, broke, and vulnerable people. They should be shut down. With an "F" with the BBB, I can't figure out why they are still in business, unless folks like us don't do our homework.

I paid JK Harris over three thousand dollars for a tax relief to help me settle my problem with the IRS. At the time, the IRS was going to put a levy on my pay check and JK Harris said they would get it off and they didn't. Then I paid them more money because they said for six thousand dollars, they could do an offer and compromise to the IRS. So, I paid them and they never even did that.

So I call them to get a refund on the services not rendered and no one is getting back to me. I have been swindled. Will someone please call me on my cell phone and talk to me? Thank you. It ruined me financially and set me back even further on my taxes when I was trying to do the right thing and now I trust absolutely no one.

They did nothing on my account but collect money, and then after 6 months of doing nothing, the Revenue Agents showed up at my home and business. These people are worthless. Heavy collections, not good.

I paid J. K. Harris over $3,000 to take care of my tax problems. They changed the people who were working on my case every 3 months or so. I would receive letters from the IRS and I could call J. K. Harris and they would have me fax the letters to them. When I asked them if they were supposed to receive the letters, they would tell me not all the time. I even received a call from one of their agents and she left a number for me to call.

When I returned the call, I was called a liar by one of the operators there and was told that I in fact did not receive a phone call from that particular agent. Finally, two months ago the IRS put a levy on my bank account. I called J. K. Harris and advised them what had happened. They told me it would be at least a week before their tax representative would get an answer from the IRS. I then went to the IRS and they lifted the levy within 45 minutes. Of course, I had to sign a re-payment agreement. I then fired J. K. Harris and requested a full refund, which after several weeks they refused. With J. K. Harris's help, I now owe the IRS over $63,000.00. I will be dead before it is ever paid for and it still won't be paid for then! It cost me $3,000 to hire J. K. Harris and I now owe the IRS over $63,000.00.

My new husband and I met with Debbie ** from JK Harris at the end of September 2009 to see if they could negotiate my husband's tax debt with the IRS or help us otherwise come up with a payment plan. He owed just under $10,000 from before we were married. She told us that they negotiate all the time with the IRS and they could help us with this amount. I specifically asked her about the amount, because no other company we saw advertised would talk to us because the tax debt wasn't over $10,000. She told us to stop making payments to the IRS, and they would take care of everything. We signed a contract and agreed to make 3 payments of $250, totaling $750.

We did not hear from her for a month. I repeatedly tried to call her, I left messages, and there's no return phone call. I received a call on 11/03/09 in which I asked her how the negotiations was coming. She told me that they were not finished and we would have to wait. Our first deduction came out on 10/16/09, the second on 10/26/09, and the final payment on 11/09/09. Still we received no return phone calls. My husband, who was no longer making payments to the IRS, received a tax levy notification in his paycheck on 11/12/09. The IRS would be taking about 75% of his paycheck until the debt was paid starting 11/19/09.

I made an emergency call to Debbie to see what kind of progress JK Harris had made. She informed me that we did not qualify for a compromise with the IRS, and she emailed me the report. She said if we wanted to spend another $1800, they would get the IRS to remove the tax levy. I told her that I certainly wouldn't be spending any more money with a company that promised us they could help us and then could not. I also told her right then that we wanted our money back. She told me that there would be no refund whatsoever. When I looked at the report, it was dated 10/14/09! They knew they wouldn't be able to help us before they ever took a cent from us!

Then they waited until all 3 payments were made before telling us that there was nothing they could do. Because we were waiting on JK Harris and because we stopped making payments to the IRS based on the advice of JK Harris, now the IRS is garnishing 75% of my husband's wages. I disputed the charges with my bank, but because we signed a contract they will not reverse the charges. Their refund policy in the contract is completely worthless, because you have to request the refund before they finish the work. Debbie ** lied when she said the report was not finished, and I doubt they would have returned our money anyway considering the deceitful way JK Harris does business.

I have filed complaints with the BBB, and they have given unsatisfactory responces. I noticed they are also rated with an F by the BBB. As of right now I am out $2300 and got nothing.

I hired JK Harris & Co. in August 2009 to represent me in my attempt to have IRS penalties abated. In reviewing my case, I was told by Mr. B. that I had a legitimate reason for requesting the abatement and that JK Harris has represented others with similar cases with favorable results. I paid over $800 to have JK Harris represent me in my request of the IRS.

After four months of repeated calls to Mr. B. to inquire as to the status of my case, he never returned any calls, nor did I receive any copies of any documentation prepared or submitted to the IRS in my behalf. In other words, I have no idea what work was done, or not done to resolve my case, nor what correspondence was sent to the IRS.

In December 2009, I received a letter from the IRS explaining that there are only four reasons for which the IRS will reverse penalties. My case clearly did not fall under one of the four reasons. My complaint against JK Harris is that as a Tax Resoluion Specialists, they should have been aware of the IRS rules for abating penalties, and they should have identified the fact that my case did not qualify. However, they proceeded to charge me for a service knowing there would not be favorable results. I paid over $800 for unnecessary services.

I got laid off from Hewlett Packard after 28 years of service and got 1 years salary payment into my 401k (which I didn't know that at the time). Without a job since October 2005, I've been using my 401k to live on. Knowing that the IRS taxes 50% on early withdrawl of 401k (I was 50 at the time) I went to JK Harris in Atlanta and signed a contract for $6000 for them to work out something with the IRS. An Offer in Compromise was discussed and that felt like the best for me.

To make a long story short, I went through everything others said sending JKH paperwork and back tax returns from past years. "They" JKH did nothing. I now owe the IRS $91,000, have nothing left in my 401k and have a lien on my credit report and the IRS took every cent out of my checking account. On my own I have submitted and Offer in Compromise with the IRS and demanded a refund from JKH.

I have also contacted the Attorney General in Georgia and Illinois where I know reside and submitted a consumer complaint. Hopefully, I get my money back so I can use that for the Offer in Compromise with the IRS. JKH is a scammer and the CEO should be put in jail for scamming the public, mail fraud and anything else we can pin on them!

We lost our house in 2005. Instead of foreclosure, we signed our house back over to the bank. They said if we agreed to be out by a certain date and left all appliances we could walk away. We did that. In 2008 we started getting billed from the IRS. They are stating we had unreported income(the difference for what we owed and what the house sold for), and now with penalities and fines we owe federal almost 15,000. State just contacted us in the past 2 weeks, same thing, we owe 5,000. I was sick to my stomach thinking how can we lose everything and now they want us to pay more. They were threatening the usual, and I was so stressed I couldn't sleep and late night seen what I thought was the answer to my prayers.

JK Harris-I called they arranged a meeting with me, the agent said oh don't worry about any of this, you didn't recieve any monies so you wouldn't owe any. The problem is it will cost you about $2300. But if you agree to pay us that we will take your case and you will owe no more than $500. and I am sure not even that. I was so relieved I was sobbing. We signed the paper and agreed to monthly payments. A year later we find out that we now have a payment plan with the IRS for the full amount and more fines and penalties to come on the federal starting in Jan of 2010.

Basically, we still owe what we started with and more in fines and penalties and we owe JK Harris 2300.00 on top of that. I try to talk to them about what exactly did they do for us and they don't say anything except you signed the paper. You owe us the money. They never return our calls I have to track them down, and when you do get someone on the phone, it's only to find out that I now have another new agent. I have had 5 different agents that I know of and none of them have ever contacted me. I thought I hired people who have my best interest at heart. I was instead completely scammed. I am going to stop payment with them and let the chips fall where they may. I have nothing left.

after 3500 dollors they were going to solve my tax problem. after 5 years later i solved it by chapter 7. i hired a lawer to solve it. i never herd from them after they took my money. i want my money back plus there crooks

I paid J.K. Harris to help me with my tax problems. On my initial visit to them I was told that with my income and with what I owed, I would only need to pay the IRS $500. Now 3 years later and several Power of Attorneys and Case Specialist, they have dropped me as a client with no warning. The way I found out was that the IRS sent me a letter stating that J.K. Harris is no longer representing me. Meaning that I'm on my own. I owe more to the IRS now, then I did when I started.

Also, I did most of the work myself. If I wanted to know anything, I was the one that called J.K. Harris, or e-mailed them for an update. I would never have known that another new Case Specialist or Power of Attorney was taking over my case, if I didn't take the initiative to call them. They took my money and did nothing to help me solve this. Now I'm own my own and I can't afford to have my wages garnished.

I feel that J.K. Harris should refund me and also pay for my penalty and interest fees that have added up over the years. Over the three years, the IRS has liens on me, levied my bank account. Physically, I am on more anti-depressant medications, I can't sleep, and econmically my credit is terrible.

I hired JKH. We kept contact, but the young lady in the Chas., SC office was hesitating. Finally, we stopped contact as the agency (JKH) told us they could do nothing as the IRS was to foreclose. I contacted the IRS in Florence through the NJ office and their version was JKH never filled out the form to disclose our Tax information. as of 11-16-09 $240/ month until ever withdrawn from my pension.

I hired JK Harris to help me with my tax debt. They said they could help, so I paid them $1400 up front and$370 a month for 12 months. $1200 of this money was for them prparing 4 years of taxes returns, which they nevere did. I spent $5800, they never stiopped any garnishment, or levy on my bank accounts. All I did was fill out & work on more and more paper work. They do not keep track of your account,s o they have no idea what the IRS is about to do to you. They take your money and give you nothing in return, but more greif. I would like a refund of the funds spent, so that I can apply it to my tax debt, ASAP.

We contacted JK Harris after seeing their T.V. commercial. We owe several thousand dollars in back taxes after a medical situation caused us to loose our business. We needed help with an Offer In Compromise and they said absolutely, they cold help. We paid over $2500 (total charges were to be $5000) but as nothing was getting done, I held off payment of balance. First our representative was new and filed the wrong power of attorney. Then she was fired and the next person, did the same thing.

After several months with no action whatsoever we requested our money back. I spent more time on the phone with them than I did with the IRS. In July 2009, we were promised a partial refund (less than half) in 90 to 120 days.

Today (Nov. 17th, 2009, I got a return call (I have been calling for a while to see where the money was) and was told that the refund wouldn't be here till maybe sometime in December 2009, but she couldn't promise me anything.

I have hired someone else to do the job they promised to do and I really need that money to pay him. We are on a fixed income and it is not enough to exist. I have a chance to open a new business but I cannot until the old tax issue is resolved. I stress to JK Harris that time was important, we will loose what little we have left (we lost our home and business in the previous situation) if we cannot earn additional income soon. They promised that it wouldn't be a problem. It's been 14 months and we are no further along than we were at the beginning.

i owe 16,000 on back taxes. i hired jk harris and paid them 2000. they have done nothing for me. i now have a lein and a levy against my properties. they have done absolutly nothing except give me excuses. no matter what i say they try to blame me for not doing my part. which was all done in a timely manner on ny part. they failed to get the documentation in on time. what did i pay them for? i have all documentation that was sent to them and when. all i have done for my 2000 is fight them

long story short''my husband & i owed $18.000 dollars 2 our wonderful gov;;!!so''we hired jkh''thought we did the right thing'''they told us''no prob''we will take care of U!!!just pay $4.000.00 dollars''so we did''shame on us !!3 years later''case still active''no results''I R S '' still SAYING THEY WILL TAKE EVERYTHING!! jkh goes for an offer in com;;of $1.800!!so ''having done most of the foot work here!!we are pleased w/them!!but'''now the irs is asking 4 a whole ton of money and paperwork we have to pay ''before they can except our offer''so we pay''now;;the irs says''no way we can except this offer;!!jkh''says just pay this off now''instead of trying to help !!so ''this case is still open;and we are still have no results.''and;;;about all the money we paid them 4 this case''down the toilet????i don't think so''don't hire this co''

I am new in Durham, having moved here from Danville, VA 11/1/2008. My tax documents were misplaced in the move and I was unable to file on time, so I requested an extension from the IRS and sent them my check for $3,000 on 4/14/09. I did not know whether I owed state income tax to Virginia or NC, so I was dependent on whoever I found to do my taxes to tell me how to resolve that problem. I went to H&R Block first; the tax accountant took my personal papers, and said she would call me as soon as my return was ready. She did not call me and never responded to my frequent calls and visits to their office. I was finally able to contact someone else from H&R Block who said my accountant was sick and after much persuasion on my part, they found my papers in one of their pending files and returned them to me.

I found J.K. Harris on the internet and they scheduled me for an appointment. Their office was in a very impressive-looking building, but I learned during the interview they were just renting a small space there, the agent seemed very nice - but new to the firm. He wanted copies of my documents rather than the originals and didn't have access to a copy machine, so asked me to have copies made and bring them back to him. He was only there one day a week, so this involved a lot of time. I realize I was very naive, but felt very pressured by that time to get my taxes filed. By then I only had until 10/15/09 to get them in. I made contact with him one more time and then couldn't get in touch with him for several weeks. I spoke to him on the phone and he said he'd gotten married and been transferred to another location and that Chaka N would be taking care of me in Durham.

When I contacted N, and asked to go in and pick up my papers, he agreed on a general time. When I got there, he kept me waiting for a long time and his manager finally talked to me in the lobby. N finally came to the lobby and the had "found" my papers which were "lost", and said they had to have full payment of $200.00 in advance. I paid them, signed their contract and left. The whole thing was a comedy of errors and I should have seen through the scam as it was taking place, but all I could think of at the time was getting my taxes filed. The two young men involved - L and N - thought they were going to be trained to be CPA's, but their manager was more transparent.

I hired them to help me with a levy the IRS put on my bank accounts and they did nothing to help me, I paid the IRS and signed a Release form for JK Harris, giving them $800 for doing nothing more than filling out a form and sending it to the IRS. I was told I would receive a refund within 90 to 120 days, I signed the Release on March 13, 2009. I have not received the refund, they keep telling me they will give me my refund but I have no confidence they will.

I was audited by the Federal IRS for some retirement benefits that were not appropriately reported (in K$) and they were charging me penalties and interest for over 100K, so I contacted J. K. Harris and Company to help me figure out why the IRS was questioning my return for 2007.

I talked to a receptionist and she followed through by sending my call to one, called, Lance A. He sent me some papers and asked to contract their services to help me with IRS questions and resolve my audit. He took funds (250.00) from my bank account. I never heard back from him after he identified himself as one of their consutlants and reassured me that he would be there for me every step of the way. Well he was not and since I have an organized system and have always reported my annual returns, I did the work myself and contacted the IRS, who by the way, was willing to work with me.

Lance did not do an ounce of work for me but charged me for his service that I never received. When I contacted him this week, he was defensive and told me my audit was complete but during all the time that I was corresponding with the IRS, he never contacted me by mail, email, nor snail mail. Like if he had never existed. He never did anything for me. I want for Lance Allen of J. K. Harris to reimburse me all the money he took from my bank account in full. He DID NOTHING for me. I did all the work and he has the audacity to tell me he fixed my audit. He is a high paid liar.

Lance has caused me sleepless nights, stress, anxiety, nausea, headaches, and to top it off, REGRET that I ever contacted J. K. Harris and Lance. He sent me a nasty email where he wanted me to just ignore requesting my money back. He has his nerve after he didn't not diddly squat for me. This contact with J. K. Harris is a complete SCAM and they are taking consumers for a free ride to their bank coffers. I resent that and I refuse to do further business with them, except find some excellent legal help to regain my funds and sanity back.

I met with representive for consultation on my past taxes. Before I had time to think he was having me sign papers to withdraw payements from my account. I told him I had insuffient funds and asked that the withdraw be held for 7 days. He agreed. The following day after reading paper work I called tim F and asked that he cancel everything. He said he would. 1 working day later I found a withdrawal from my account. I immediately contacted him and he said he had notified the main office to not bill me and he would contact them again. A week later when my account had not been credited with the withdrawal they made I contacted him again. He than tried to tell me I was to contact the main office which I did and was unable to talk to anyone.

I filed a dispute against J.K. Harris and my bank said there was nothing they could do as I had sign permission for the withdrawal and jk harris would not reinburse me. Well I Paid $168. for 5 mins of consultation. So anyone in Minnesota if you are thinking of contacting a tax consultant do not go to J. K. Harris. They can not be trusted and do not adhere to their adverstisement. If you do go to one listen to them take the information home and read it before you sign anything. They make it sound good as to how much they can save you and are only interested in taking your money. I probably should be happy I got out of it for only $168. by cancelling my cash card otherwise they would of made two more debits to my account.

This is the letter I sent to JK Harris recently with no response from them.

Marilyn B who is listed as my case specialist has had only one response to my numerous questions of what is going on and that response is we are still waiting for the IRS to give us an answer to the recent Offer In Compromise we have filed. I have seen nothing since hiring you in February 2009 except for whatever I call and ask for. I have nothing that shows what is being done for my money. Just that same answer just waiting.

I have spent hours on the phone with the IRS myself when I thought I was paying JK Harris to do that for me. One day I was on for 2 hours and 5 minutes.

On your page Things to Remember.. under Paragraph 3 it says that JK Harris will attempt to stay or remove a levy placed by the IRS. No! I did that myself, again with hours on the phone. Ms. B says I will be notified of any milestones in my case. Evidently there have been no milestones in 7 months because other than the times I have called and asked or e-mailed her I have gotten only one call from her updating me, which was still waiting.

I should have gone on line and better checked out the complaints against JK Harris before I ever entered into an agreement with you. I feel I have been scammed out of the $500 I put down and the $176.48 I have paid monthly for the other 6 months. I should have read the fine print, of which there is lots, to see what you could take from my account.

I want out of this contract immediately. You are not doing what you were hired do.

Needed that refund to help pay my rent.I gave them the money when they asked for it, they should do the same.I complied with all the forms to grt a refund.

I went to jkharris for help, he promised me my case could be solved. that I would only have to pay the IRS $100.00 because of my situation. I asked was he positive because I couldn't afford to hire them if I still had to pay the IRS, so he guaranteed me it would be no problem,that he had handled cases just like mine in the past and they were solved for less than $200.00, so he was postive mine could be solved for $100.00 because my situation was wores than there's. so they started taking out about 244.00 a month out of my credit card,

well when I got the paper work in the mail the priced had jumped to $700.00 which was still a lot better than what I owed. after the final payment a year and half later they would no longer return my calls, the IRS was calling me with threats of taking my home, car, garnishing my wages, even taking what little money I had in the bank.

I left messages everyday, with still no reply from them. I finally got a hold of one of the girls that was supose to be helping me, she said she was sorry. I told her what the first jkharris guy had said, and she told me they couldn't make promises like that cause they didn't know how it would turn out. I'm very depressed, I cry all the time, I can't sleep.

I went to jkharris for help, he promised me my case could be solved. that I would only have to pay the IRS $100.00 because of my situation. I asked was he positive because I couldn't afford to hire them if I still had to pay the IRS, so he guaranteed me it would be no problem, that he had handled cases just like mine in the past and they were solved for less than $200.00, so he was postive my could be solved for $100.00 because my situation was wores than there's.

so they started taking out about 244.00 a month out of my credit card, well when I got the paper work in the mail the priced had jumped to $700.00 which was still a lot better than what I owed. after the final payment a year and half later they would no longer return my calls, the IRS was calling me with threats of taking my home, car, garnishing my wages, even taking what little money I had in the bank.

I left messages everyday,with still no reply from them. I finally got a hold of one of the girls that was supose to be helping me,she said she was sorry. I told her what the first jkharris guy had said, and she told me they couldn't make promises like that cause they didn't know how it would turn out.

Made an appointment. She had me fill out a bunch of forms. Signed them. JK HARRIS started to withdraw money from my checking account. Then a few months later the IRS started to garnish my weekly pay check. So JK HARRIS after taking $1200.00 form me told me I needed to hire a lawyer. And that they had a list of lawyers if I wanted to use one of theirs. So I just paid them $1200 to tell me I needed a lawyer. Well I'm out $1200.00 Needed to hire a lawyer. IRS $3000 from me before I could get things going with a bankruptcy lawyer.

They took my money got me in a bigger mess than I was in. I now owe the IRS $14000

I hired JK Harris to help me with my taxes. They were going to file my taxes and work out an agreement with the IRS in my behalf. I was told that they had offices in my area. I was give three packets to fill out. I was having problems filling out the forms so I went to the office where I signed up. There was nobody there. I was told by the receptionist that they have a person there only on thursday.

I went on thursday and got NO help. I was told to fill out the forms and mail them to South Carolina. I needed help filling out the forms. I called the office in S.C. and after several transfers got a recording saying that the person I was trying to reach was gone for the week. Nobody else could help me.

After making several calls without getting any help I decided to terminate my agreement with JK Harris. After two month I got a letter in the mail stating that they were offering me $27.00. They had taken over $3,200 from my checking account and provided me NO service at all and they wanted me to settle for $27.00. I am seeking advice and will most likely sue them. Over $3,200 taken from my account. Absolutely no service. Hours of my time.

I worked for South Carolina Dept of Consumer Affairs. Two or so years ago the attorney General, Henry McMaster, came to our office and ordered our agency not to pursue consumer complaints against JK Harris. It seems Mr McMaster is an old law partner of Charlie Condon, who the attorney general before Henry. Mr Condon is now in private practice. His sole client is JK Harris Co. Our agency had almost a thousand complaints against JK Harris, and we could not proceed with any of them. Hundreds of people lost tens of thousands of dollars, and still JK Harris is in business.

i went to jk harris to help with a tax problem that i had. they promise that they could get the irs to settle for a amount that was not ture. i cancel their services and i want my $250 down payment back. it was promise to me. then they wrote me a letter saying the was going to keep my money. but they done no work but kept my money. that money came out of my check. i had to put off apaying a bill that week

The IRS had placed a Levy against my checking account and the Co. with whom I was contracting with.

After seeing many Tax resolution company commercials on TV and listing to them advise to never deal directly with the IRS because they are not going to help you but make life harder frightened me enough and made me affraid to deal directly with the IRS. After the meeting I decided to aquire services from JK Harris and Co.,LLC

I have contacted the Better Business Bureau and they were in contact with JK Harris and Co.,LLC and they kept saying that I cancelled on 6/24/09.
On 8/21/09 I finally received an answer and they said that my request for a refund of the $500.00 was being denied.

JK Harris and Co. LLC had done no work on my case because when I signed the papers I was given a packet to fill out and needed to send them the information before they would start my case. It was Gus Petuske who told me this and also told me not to call the IRS they wouldn't know who JK Harris and Co.,LLC because they use another name when dealing with the IRS. ( red flag ) But I wanted help so bad I was only wanting to see that they could help me.

Thank you for letting me tell my story!

On March 20, 2009 I hired JK Harris to help me with my tax problems. I met with Randy S. in the Hattiesburg. He explained that the company has three departments that would help me get on the right track. I made a down payment of 3,000.00 & they have been drafting 520.00 monthly out of my checking account. The drafts started in April of 09. They also have been drafting 55.00 monthly for my quarterly reporting. They said that the legal department would contact Walter H. with the IRS & get my taxes set up on a payment plan. They said that I made too much money to "negotiate" with the IRS about the amount due.

On April the 9th I received a call from JK Harris legal Dept that Mr. Howard gave me another 30 days to get all of my tax returns to him. On April the 9th I also hand delivered to the IRS the bank statments, proof of income, list of assets, & liabilites. I then faxed these to JK Harris. When I had delivered my tax returns to Mr. Howard at the IRS he said that he had received a letter that D. Bauman had sent a letter that he was no longer representing me.

I called JK Harris at that time & was told that I would be assigned another person. Until 6/15/09 I never had any contact from JK Hariis. On 6/15/09 I received an email with forms to complete from S. Sowell. I replied back to her. I told her that I had alreay completed these & had provided them to the IRS & JK Harris. I never received a reply back.

Then on Friday afternoon, 8/14/2009 I opened a letter from W. Howard at the IRS. The letter stated that I had failed to comply to the deadline that he had given & there were four levies also enclosed. One was for my employer, one for my bank-checking account. I emailed Ms Sowell & asked her to contact me that day. I also got the name of her supervisor which ws L. Cunningham. I fax all of my correspondence to both of them. I never got a return call.

The next day I got an email from Ms. Sowell stating that she called my number, but the indivisual said that she had a worng number. She listed the correct number that she had supposedly tried to call. She never called the alternate number that I had left either. Her email stated 'nevertheless, I still need these forms".

I did explain in my email that now I have no income. I am paid by 1099. My employer told me that he is to withhold 100%. She did not try to explain or even seem concerned that I have no income. I am going to end up losing my home & everything that I have worked very hard for, but JK Harris is not concerned! They are concerned about taking my money & nothing else!

Signed up with JKH in Nov 08, to help with review audit and reduce penalty, after sending them everything and advising me to become a LLC, they totally dropped the ball, Mark hisself told me this, nothing had been done, Mary R had not done anything on the case, also Nateshia G had not done anything she was in the bookkeeping part of it, other people dealt with Mirian R, Michael B,Robert C, they reduced our audit to 4000.00 and did not audit anything, then they have taken 250.00 out of our checking since that time. But of all the ones the one that assured us of their reputation and results was Mr. Rodney N of North Charleston, SC, these people are amazing and I feel for it, paid for it with a heart attack last Thursday after getting the levy notice from the IRS, so I am requesting a refund and a apology, I thought carpetbagging went out with the war.

I informed the bank, and the bank close the account and giveme another account,.

on february 25 2009 i met with an agent from jk harris about my tax issues he inform me that they can get it worked out. i had to pay a 700 down payment he broke it into two payments the first payment of 250 was due april 3 then the other was due april 17. I paid the 250 then i felt like something was not right so i ended there services. I ask for my 250 back then they told me it would have to come from the oversite & review board. I called no one would call be back.

On july 17 someone from jk harris review board call & left me a message saying "i would get my $250 back in 5 to 10 business days". On july 22 i got a letter in the mail from jk harris saying they were not going to refund my money. I called to see what was going on the agent told me he doesnt know what the problem was but he will get someone to call me back it is now august 14 i have not heard anything from them no letters no calls.

I ahd JK Harris & company prepare my 04, 05 and 06 taxes. Not only did they charge me over a thousand dollars to do nothing but they also reported me to the credit agencies when I refused to continue with their services. They did not negoiate with the IRS or even advise me with my tax issues. I fill that I paid them a lot of money and received nothing in return. I am now still dealing with those same tax issues.

On December 11, 2008, I went to the JK Harris office in Texas to help fix a tax issue with SC Department of Revenue. The representative, James Bujarski, assured me that they could help me. He talked me into the tax planning program for $1500.00. They deducted the money from the wrong account and when I tried calling and emailing I received no response. I received an email from C. Infinger introducing himself and assuring me he would promptly take care of my tax problem.

I received an email from SC Department of Revenue asking for the amended returns which I forwarded to C. Infinger. I received no response. I called and left a voice message and still did not get a response. I called again and found out that Mr. Infinger had been promoted and that my case had been given to W. Judge.

I called Ms. Judge and she informed me it was tax season and she would get to it after the season was over. I told her that was not acceptable and faxed her my letter from the SC Department of Revenue. I asked her to contact K. Williams there and let her know the hold up was their fault.

I waited 5 weeks and called again since nothing had happened and Ms. Williams said she had not heard anything from them. When I called JK Harris again they informed me they had turned my case over to W. Wandel. He told me he was researching SC Law and that he was having personal problems and would get it done as soon as possible.

I waited another 6 weeks and called back again. I asked for a supervisor and told them this needed to be completed I was starting to get extremely mad. I had been patient but this was ridiculous. The supervisor said it would be mailed out promptly, which is July 2009, not very prompt service. I received the amended returns 2 days later. The next day a letter was sent to say they had filled out the form incorrectly and the new forms were the correct ones.

I felt very unsure of their work and decided to take my problem [to competitor] in Brunswick, Georgia where I am working. They have been done and they are not anything like what I received from JK Harris. I want a full refund of $650.00 for the tax service they did not do correctly and a refund of $1,500.00 for the tax planning that I can not trust to use and is a waste of money. I do not believe that JK Harris is a reputable company at all. I had to pay JK Harris $2150.00 and the npay [competitor] $459 to fix their incompetence.

I have been strung along about my IRS case and being told do not talk to the IRS and now the IRS has Levied My checking account for 13,000. I am being EVICTED from my home and I have a 5 yrs. old living with me.I have been on the phone all day trying to get a refund of 866.00 which I have paid to them to STOP this levy..Guess I need to find a attorney to try and SUE TO get my money back.

I should've read this website BEFORE I even bothered calling them, but the good thing is that I canceled my check before they processed it, and am in the process of requesting a refund and formally terminating our agreement. So far, I've not heard back from anyone from their organization.

A couple years ago, I originally paid TRS a ton of cash, and after I had the same experience as some of the customers here with JKH, decided to go with them. I figured I couldn't get scammed by two different companies, but I was obviously wrong. Anyway, I went in for my "free consultation", and met with a "consultant" (according to his business card) -- not even a CPA or former IRS, and am guessing he was just a sales guy. He more or less scared me to death after explaining horror stories to me, and convinced me to sign up because I couldn't do it alone. Of course this was after he told me about one of their success stories.

After reading the reviews here, and realizing I had made a mistake, I started reading their terms and conditions. Here is an excerpt about who will perform the work: "The vast majority of work on your case, including data gathering, form preparation and verification of supporting documents, is performed by trained employees called Case Specialists who are located at JKH's offices in Charleston, SC. Case Specialists receive appx 40 hours of classroom training, in addition to on the job training, using training materials similar to those used by the IRS. The CS works with our pro Licensed Taxpayer Rep (LTR) who handle the review of your file and the negotiations with the IRS or state taxing authority. LTRs are attorneys, CPAs, or Enrolled Agents and are also located in SC. All communications regarding your case will come through your CS unless one of our LTRs requires info directly from you. Consultants do not have access to your account info and will not be able to answer questions regarding case progressions."

So the [lies] my "consultant" gave me in that I will be interfacing through him is obviously not true, and he has no access to any of my info even though I would be submitting everything they needed to him. Also, I'm shocked that most all the work will be done by people who received 40 hours of classroom training -- basically a bunch of clerical admins, and not tax pros like I was expecting.

Anyway, unless they try and collect their money, I got off easy, and didn't have to pay them a dime. Finally, I called the IRS directly, and agreed to go on a 60 month payment plan after the guy from JKH told me that it would not be possible. Note: after having several conversations with various IRS folks over the last month or so, it all depends on who you end up talking to.

This is huge scam. They ripped us off for $4600. We owed $50000 and they said we would only have to pay $1200. In the initial interview, the guy plugs in numbers in his laptop and presto bingo!!! We can only afford to pay the IRS $1200. So we sign up with $1200 down payment and debit my account for $360 monthly for 11 months, and after 6 months, they say according to the documents I sent into their office they calculate that I can pay $35,000. Big difference between $1200 and $35,000.

They're just completely incompetent and don't know what they're doing. They mailed back my returns stating that all I needed to do was sign and mail in to the IRS. One small problem - they forgot to attach my W2s which caused the IRS to kick them back and made me miss the filing deadline. It's their inattention to detail which is just one small reason why everyone should stay far away from this company.

To top things off, they debited my account twice for their fee, then no one would return my calls to fix their mistake. I finally had to get my bank involved to straighten out the mess they caused.

Who knows how badly they actually screwed things up. I only pray that the fine from the IRS is not too bad.

I signed on with J.K. Harris in April of 2007 after I had my wages garnished. They told me that they could help me and asked for $400 upfront then $333 a month for the next few years. I gathered all necessary information and sent it over to them. They prepared one set of tax returns which were incorrect, so they had to prepare another. One I discovered was still incorrect, two years later. I sent all of the financial information to them in May of 2008. I was asked for it again in July and August of 2008.

When I received a letter, that they didn't know about, in September of 2008 giving me a specific date to file my financial information with the IRS, I called J.K. Harris. No one returned my call. I emailed them three time and called a few more times. Finally, I got someone on the phone who told me that they couldn't get the paperwork done that fast as they were still missing some items. Items I had sent in May, July, and August. I said I will send the info to the IRS myself, which I did. I was able to prevent the IRS from freezing my bank accounts on my own.

When I spoke to the agent at the IRS he mentioned that they get a lot of people who are dealing with J.K. Harris that have to take back over their own cases. He told me that people are better off to work directly with the IRS as the same rules apply to both them and individuals. I can file my own offer in compromise and if I have questions about how to fill it out, I can sit down with an IRS agent in my local IRS office (yes a human) and they would assist me.

So I called J.K. Harris and demanded my money back. I was told that it had paid for all the hours of work they had done....what work? Wrong tax filings, and that's it? I called my bank and told them under no circumstances are they to process ANYTHING from J.K. Harris. I pulled my LPOA as well. I emailed J.K. Harris to let them know they were fired so that I would have back up of my contact with them. They sent me a notice informing me that I was still to pay out the remaining balance due. I told them they could sue me for it and I would counter sue them. They attempted to process one more payment and called when it was returned to try to get money.

Then they left me alone for 6 months. After which point I got a call telling me my account was past due. I told them I had fired them in October of 2008 and there was nothing past due about that. She had no record of me firing them. So I asked what paperwork they had sent to the IRS in the last 6 months on my behalf, her anser was nothing. So, if they weren't "fired" what were they doing for 6 months that I should be paying for? She said they were waiting for me to contact them to let them know what I wanted them to do about the potential bank account freeze from September 2008.

I have been working with the IRS on my own for two years now. They are slightly easier to deal with. It took them 2 years to set me up on a payment plan. They also don't believe in calling you back or sending you information unless it's a letter stating their intent to do something. It is up to you to call them back after they have stated they would do something, hold for an hour and start all over.

I now have a levy against me from the IRS because of the IRS not following up with me, despite me being placed on a payment plan. All of this because I hired a company who isn't worth the papers they have you sign. I am out over $1500 dollars to J.K. Harris. I am still accruing interest and penalties on my taxes that J.K. Harris swore to me we would have settle in 6 months. So, they have ultimately cost me thousands of dollars.

Of course, we have sent letters demanding the return of our money by registered, return receipt. They never accepted it.

We finally decided to go to IRS on our own. The IRS agent said that they had nothing in their files requesting a stay of levies. They were threatening to levy our SS benefits. The IRS is now working with us directly and we can actually talk to someone. They might not save us any money, but at least we know where we stand and they are not promising things that cannot be done. We are resigned to the fact that our Government will stay on our backs until we die. We are past retirement age and cannot make enough money in the rest of our lifetime to pay them off. They at least doubled the amount we should have been charged and will continue to add to it.

Aside from JK Harris, we believe legislation should be able to help taxpayers with unscrupulous revenue agents. They have no controls on them and can do whatever they want.

And that plan was for me to pay the entire amount of $45,000. They completly screwd me

I contracted with JK Harris on 2-29-08 based on tv and radio ads promising to settle past due taxes with the IRS and state. I have paid them over $3300 over this time period. Everytime I requested an update, they would tell me my caseworker had been promoted and turn me over to someone new who would requests that I submit the previous 3 months of income, bills, bank statements, ect. i have sunbitted these documents multiple times.

I was threatened with a lien on my home and once again called them as their ads state they can prevent this. I was told again to submit 3 more onths of the above, which I did. the lien was filed anyway, and my caseworker responded by stating "that doesn't mean a thing; just that if you try to sell the house, the IRS can take the money." How comforting!

Time has gone on and last week i was threatened with a wage levy. My caseworker told me to send her the info, along with my employer's payroll person's name, phone and fax numbers. I did. She then told me that I could go ahead and fill out the papers for my employer as she "would have this stopped before the employer even sent the info in." I received my check today with 90% of my pay levied out. The amount I took home won't pay my light bill, much less my car, house, ect.

I have called them 5-6 times today, left messages each time for my caseworker and also sent 3-4 emails to her and her supposed supervisor--no response. The people who answer the phone say the power of attorney is working on it. Meanwhile I have no money. I don't know if I should contact the IRS directly and try to arrange something. I do know it is criminal what these people have done.

How can a business such as this continue to run after the state lawsuis and all the complaints? The complaints are virtually identical. That many random people couldn't possibly be that on the mark and be wrong.

They have a refund policy if you act within 18 months and release them from all liability--how convenient.

Paid the company $3000. A year later no acction has been taken and they told me they could not help me.

Contracted with J.K. Harris in January of 2008 about my back taxes. After seeing their adds on TV, I thought maybe we could get what is owed, reduced.

No attempt was ever made by them to negotiate with the IRS, even after the amount was bumped up, almost double, because of penalties and interest. They also told me that I shouldn't be in communication with the IRS, that they would handle all that. However, I have had to contact the IRS several times about different things and also tell the IRS that they should contact J.K. Harris about my case. It seems the different IRS offices, around the country, don't communicate with each other.

Just when I thought things were coming to a resolution, the IRS notified us that they would levy part of my wife's Social Security payments. Now, the IRS has levied my checking account, freezing all the money in there. I'm hoping J.K. Harris can rectify this problem within the 21 days, allowed because I have NO money.

My husband and I entered into a contract agreement with JK Harris a year ago with the understanding the company would represent us with Federal and State Income Tax problems. Our tax files are for multiple years and when we met the representative we were told that we did not need to worry anymore, because with them representing us they could get our taxes reduced. All we needed to do was to make a down payment and additional $1,400 to cover other expenses. Hearing this was music to our ears, because we had labored over this problems for years and we would finally be relieved of the stress and anxiety worrying about closing these accounts. There were lots of phone calls and letters written to JK Harris asking questions, providing duplicate information and never received an answer to our questions. This did not set well with us. We are elderly people with multiple medical problems and did not need the stress this company has created.

None of the services we were told we would received never materialized. We were shown little respect, we could not trust them and we never could believe that our case was important to them, because of lack of results. Each month a payment from our account of $148.00 was taken like clock work for services we never received. The company misrepresented itself, provided false advertising information and has defrauded customers across the country. They have law suits everywhere. We need to file a suit, this company is scamming and ripping off people.

I had a large tax to pay in 2005. J.K Harris ads say we will help you pay pennies on the dollars so I contacted them to see if they could help. They immediately called me back and then set up a meeting. Yes, it was in the back room of an office that they were renting just for appointments and not a nice one. My counselor told me they could help me and I needed to sign up today because there was no time to waste. I did. I felt like promises were made and as I look back they could never have been kept. I had levies put against my bank accounts and leins against my home.

I recommend that you talk to the Tax advocate at the IRS and research the internet for what can really be done before entering any contract with J.K Harris or other first that prey on those that have financial troubles. The first thing my consultant Sowell did was ask me questions about what my expenses were and how much money did I make at my job. At the time I did not have a job and had not had one because I was a stay at home mom and widowed.

Her first recomendation was Federal Installment Agreement (W-2/Sch C). The cost of this was $3125.00. What she did not tell me is that in order to file for a Federal Installment Agreement you have to have been employed to show some income coming in from a job. Recently, when I filed for a refund with the review and oversight I was told they would have to investigate. Seeing a 0 on my contract for income put there by their paid consultant was not proof enough for them. They are taking it under review and 60 days from the day you talk to them they will send you a letter and tell you what their findings were.

I paid $750.00 for a State Installment agreement (W2/SCH C) this would let them notify my state that they were working with me and set up another payment plan but my state was never notified. Money in their pocket and a lein on my house. The thing to really watch is the Prepare Abatement of Penalty Request (Federal). The cost of this was $2200.00. What they don't tell you is the total tax, interest and penalty must be paid FIRST before you can file for this. If you don't have the money to pay in the first place how can they prepare and abatement.

I signed an agreement that they could be my Power of Attorney. After contacting the IRS Advocate office I withdrew that POA and have been working with the IRS and it is a lot less expensive and things are getting accomplished because I am in control and more worried about my affairs than J.K. Harris. It was my Tax Advocate that told me how to make a request for my money, on the back of your contract and kept her advised on what I said and how I was doing in the process.

What have I learned? Be sure to date everything you do with them because your 60 days start from that date. They like to make it from the day that you talk to them if you can get an answer. I left messages and waited days for call backs. They have several offices and be sure to send all request to all offices because they do not update records very often and if you do not have a copy of a letter you sent to another office the 60 days starts when it arrives in the office you are talking to. Be sure if you mail any information to them that you send it priority or overnight with delivery confirmation. I sent a letter on the 13th. USPS says it was delivered 4 days later...weekend in there and they received it on the 22 according to their records.

When asking for your money back it is not important to them and they did not consider it a scam that they had charged me $6,075 for services they could not and did not perform. The answer was they were very busy with other refunds (confirmation to me) to put mine ahead of anyone elses I would just have to wait my turn.

Please research your options well and contact the IRS and see what you can do. During the contract period when I asked about the pennies on the dollars their response was...not all customers are the same and you do not qualify...why wasn't I told this in the beginning...I would have thought more and not signed? Hard lesson and still fighting to get my money back because it is important to me.

They are holding over $6,000.00 of my money in a time when I need my money it is not important to them that they sold me a bill of goods and they could not deliver. They knew that the services they offered could not be preformed because I did not have a job yet through fear of the IRS I signed only to find that I should have feared J.K. Harris and all the standard answers to the IRS. The advocate office is working with me and I am thankful for that.

they did not complete there end of contract. requested money back. even signed general release over year ago. they owe $1400 just on contract. payed my taxes and have wasted many hours, been lied to and stress beyond beleif. they should pay thousands for the stress they caused

I paid them 1400 dollars to help mke oput of a tax problem. they did not EVER contact the IRS about my case and jerked me around and i ended up contacting the IRS myself and having to set up payments whicvh i coulod have done in th4e first place and now i have been trying to get my refund from them {which they promiseed i would receive} for 2 years. they are complete frauds and i get so mad whe4n i see their ads on tv i could scream. we are tow old people living on social security and every dollar is precious to us.

In Nov 2007, my husband and I met with JKHarris regarding our 2005 taxes. The IRS was stating that we owed, $9,000, but with interest/penalities it was over $20,000. The representative assured us that due to my husband's illness and the amount of income we was 100% certain that we would not have to pay anything to the IRS, but we had to sign a contract to pay JKHarris $3,000. We were able to talk to someone when we called, but never really got any solid information. My husband passed away July 20, 2008, so the disability I was receiving for him was stopped.

I finally got JKHarris paid off March 2009 and now I can't get anyone to answer my calls or return my emails. Of course, my refund for 2008 $795.00 was kept my the IRS and the amount I owe has gone up to $25,000 now and they are saying they are going to put a lien on everything I own. I am about ready to go to the local TV and see if they will do a segment on them, expecially after reading all the other complaints listed here.

I will probably lose everything I own, can't sleep because of worrying about this and received no benefit from the $3,000 I paid JKHarris and I had to do without food, some medications each month to pay for the services, they supposedly were providing to me.

Contacted JK Harris to approach the IRS about 47K tax liability. Was told they would jump on the case and get the debt reduced along with interest and penalties. They sat on my case and avoided all calls and emails until they sent me my 2008 returns which weren't even completed.

I called to ask why the return wasn't completed and never heard back from them. I sopped paying hem and finally heard back from them. They claim they never told me they would do something to address my tax liability. They now claim they were hired to develop a business plan for me.

What? I'm not a business, I'm an individual taxpayer.

I have refused all requests for more money from them until they can produce some actual work product relating to the tax liability.

As the IRS agent told me there is no magic bullet for IRS issues. And none of these companies EVER produce results for their clients. Just look at all of the complaints for all of these companies.

AVOID THEM AT ALL COSTS!!!!!!!

Lack of service, no follow-up, paid 1700.00 and received nothing in return from JK Harris only that they could arrange repayment with IRS which I could do myself. No return calls when filed complaint. Now owe more than before dealing with them. Contract I signed when dealing with them and paying them 1700.00 said they would reduce my debt by 70%, now told I make too much and have to repay all, be aware of this company and what they promise

On july 10,2008, I met with a rep from JK Harris in a "BARROWED OFFICE" (should of been a clue right there!!!!!).My wife and i fell into tax problems of over $20,000,The JK Harris rep told us that his company could get our tax dept reduced to arround $750.00 to $1,200 because of "THEIR SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE TAX GAME"!! Being in tax dept for three years and feeling like a thief for not paying our taxes,we felt such a relief that our nightmare could soon be over,IF WE ONLY KNEW IT WAS JUST GETTING STARTED!!!!

We faxed document after document to them and never hearing back from them (thinking everything being done as promised),finally after several moths of not hearing from them, I called too see where we were at this time,was SHOCKED to hear from a "linda" that NO DOCUMENTS HAVE YET BEEN RECIEVED FROM US! I told linda that all the documents asked for was faxed(lucky i kept records of fax dates with comfirmation docs from fax ) she just said srry-nothing is here,I told her to stay there that im faxing over and want her to stand by fax machine,she relucantly said she would, since then NOTHING- NOTHING has been done,we are recieving threating letters from the IRS stating that OUR HOME OF 24 YEARS IS GOING TO BE TAKIN FROM US.

Calling JK Harris co and all we get is THEIR IN A MEETING AND WILL CALL U BACK WHEN MEETING IS THREW, NO CALL BACK EVER, its been over a year and again NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE! If your reading this and thionking of contacting JK Harris co for help, PLEASE DONT!!!!! AGAIN PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!!!!!!! BUT IF YOU ARE USING THIS COMPANY AND FEEL THE SAME AS MY WIFE AND I-- WE WOULD LIKE TO FORM A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE TO TAKE THIS COMPANY TO COURT AND SEW NOT ONLY FOR OUR MONEY BACK BUT ALSO LOSS OF TIME AND GRIEF!!!!

As a result of divorce, and a business my ex-wife and I had sunk our savings into, I found myself owing the IRS over $161,000. I contacted JK Harris out of a desire to remain anonymous with local attorneys and CPAs. My mistake was made out of a lack of experience, making emotional decisions and feeling criminal for not being able to pay my fair share of taxes. I should have known beter when they wanted $7,500 to resolve my issues and for representation with the IRS. I negotiated to $5,500 and feeling as though I had made progress to resolve the issues. It was only the beginning. I cannot begin to describe the encounter, except for saying what many others have, they did nothing. Absolutely nothing. No return calls, many voicemails that went unreturned and actually found the IRS far easier to deal with. I simply want to warn others to NEVER contract with this firm. They are ineffectual at best and criminal at worst. At the end of the day, you will simply waste valuable time dealing with this shell of a company, simply hire an attorney and avoid yourself a headache.

JK Harris screwed us. It's been over a year and a half. We called numerous times. Today we called them & now they tell us they did all they could. And they told us that our case has been transfered to another person. The never ever call or let us know what is happening with our case. The refused to refund us because of lack of services. First they tell us when we hired them we would only pay a fraction of the amount we owe the IRS. Then, and this is many mounts later, they are still working on the case.

Also JK Harris agreed at the time we signed up, they will also represent us with our New York State Taxes. The problem with that is today they tell us they have not done anything with New York State. The IRS tells us that we pay too much rent. JK Harris never informed us about a limit to the amount of rent we need to pay. This is after signing a two year lease. All this information we got was because of phone calls we made to either IRS or JK Harris. We never know who our JK Harris representative ever is or was.

Each time we call we are told that we "now have a new representative". when we started with JK Harris, our income was (our new rep is now A. johnson) very low. We lost our house in Hernendo, Fl. Since we moved our income has gotten better. But, only after we moved. Also when we signed with JK Harris I did not receive SSI until a few mounts before we moved to our rental. Since we moved to our new address and only then our income has improved. It was only after then that the IRS told us we make too much & pay too much rent. WE CALLED IRS. NOT JK HARRIS.

What in the world do they do? Keep our money & sit on there rear. JK Harris sat on our case too long.(we spoke to a William no last name) Even JK Harris said they took too long. Talking too them is like talking to a brick wall. JK Harris never gives a straight answer, always give us some kind of double talk. We were paying the IRS $62. JK Harris tole us to not pay the IRS anymore because they are handling our case. JK Harris promises you when you sign up with them that "you will pay only a fraction of what you owe the IRS" EVEN in the TV ad JK Harris says that.

This is not the only complaint against them. Just go on the internet. The list is endless. The only thing we did not do is check JK Harris before we signed with them. Is there something we can do? Or is it too late. The only advice we have is DO NOT UES JK HARRIS. We are so behind that we now filing bankruptcy. Is there anything we could do.

we are owed a refund of over $2600.00 and have waiting over one year. Every phone call to them is to no avail. They keep telling us it is being processed but nothing ever comes of it. They have proven to be a scam!

J K Harris promised to reduce my tax owed. They did not. They have not done anything for me and I am still paying them.

Several years ago, I went through the divorce from hell. One of the repercussions was the failure to pay taxes. It was my fault, but I was under tremendous stress and wasn't functioning normally. Nonetheless, I need legal representation with the IRS. I hired JK Harris to represent me and after almost 2 years of trying to contact someone at the company to help, they never did anything for me.

I eventually realized the company was a total scam. I am not along, search the web for JK Harris Scam and you will learn it is not a reputable company. They claim to be the largest company defending taxpayers. However, check out their website and you will not find an address or central location listed. The address I used in this complaint was my so called contact for assistance.

I wound up paying the IRS a huge amount of money. But it was the money that I paid JK Harris and never received one iota of assistance, that burned me more than anything else.

We were completely scammed by these vultures. We would love to be able to have any guidance or help in addressing this outrageous Rip-off. We contracted with these scam artists in good faith to the tune of $3200 dollars and the only contact we had was when the sent us a payment contract and an unsigned letter terminating the contract. They did absolutely nothing! All calls were made by us to find out the progress being made. We simply wanted some help to make things right with the IRS.

When we contacted the IRS they threatened garnishment, which they did for 2001, for $7000 that not a penny of that went to 2001. We had filed all of our retuns to current and $12,000plus went for taxes 14years ago. We were simply desperate for some help in understanding and resolving our tax issues. The only thing we gained with JKHarris was a huge fee we couldn't afford and untold frustration and heartache.

My biggest wish is to be able to warn others of what a complete scam this is and to stop these people from hurting more people than they already have. If anyone, anywhere can offer some insight to this, please let us know. A Huge expense we could not afford and untold stress and heartache.

they got me too 4 yrs later 4000.00$later and i owe irs more than when it started i cant count the times i sent them my info now they want me to do it again so they can set me up on payment plan of 61,000.00 that wuz only 41,000.00 when they told me i could pay 12oo.00 and bethrough oh yea they cant stop a lein or levy neiher i know ihave them iknow what needs to be done with these crooks but tarand feathers are hard to come by plus i may bein up to my scap in debt with unc sam i like tolive

I contracted with JK Harris May 2008 to settle about $11K in IRS debt from tax years 2004 and 2005, penalties and interest. I paid $1,500 up front with assurances that my federal taxes would be reduced by half. I sent the large amount of financial information to JK Harris as requested and waited. In the meantime, I continued to get letters from the IRS about my past taxes. Today - April 8 - JK Harris emailed me completed tax returns with a total amount owed of $9,400 - not including any interest or payments the IRS may add!

Needless to say, this is a far cry from the half off I was assured when I contracted with them last year. I emailed them to ask the sense in filing their returns, when what the IRS will likely add in penalties and interest will total more than what the IRS said I owed them in the first place, prior to involving JK Harris. I'm holding out hope that there's some good news in this, that there's simply something I'm not understanding.

But in reading the reviews on this site and others, it seems I've fallen prey to JK Harris' overinflated advertising and baseless, misleading promises. Absent clarification from JK Harris and significant reduction of my tax burden, I will seek a refund. If that proves to be as difficult as other dissatisfied clients say it is, I'll be filing a lawsuit against JK Harris.

I've experienced continued worry - that is, extreme emotional distress - about my tax burden that apparently could have been dealt with some time ago had I contacted the IRS directly. I've also accrued more interest and penalties on my back taxes since contracting with JK Harris.

In 2005 we paid JK Harris attorney at his rented office space, $3600 to settle my back taxes. I completed the intensive paperwork and turned it in to the attorney who forwarded it for processing. When I attempted to reach Jk Harris to discuss why there had not been any progress, I was told they never received the paperwork.

My relationship with JK Harris immediately went to a hostile one because the representative acted like a bill collector to me. To this day no work was done with the IRS. I requested a refund, they agreed to a partial refund, but have not paid it. When we follow up by email (there is noone to speak with by phone), they respond by saying they are not able to pay now, and they are sorry about that. I want to be part of a class action lawsuit. Who do I speak with?

As you could imagine, we really needed the assistance with the back taxes, and we really need our money back.

This is my scenario with JK Harris & Co. and how I resolved the issue and got a refund. On 11/07/2007 I met with a R. Behney. He explained the whole process of JK Harris and what was involved. He then asked me all kinds of questions and within an hour he told me he could reduce my taxes from around $50,000 at the time to about $3,200. I was stunned and amazed at the same time. I thought if it sounds to good to be true it probably is! These are professionals and should know what they are talking about. I signed the necessary paperwork and said let's get this thing rolling. Within a week JK Harris called and we were rolling. Through weeks of preparation because my problem was both business and personal, they got working. This cost me $5,650 for the OIC and $450 for them to do my taxes for 2007.

In February 2008 they sent the final OIC offer for me to review. The figure wasn't even close. Their total was $47,373. I was furious to say the least. I immediately called them and they said they would review my numbers. They did and said this is what I owed. I argued they did nothing for me. They gained me $3,000 with the IRS and I paid them $6,000. I told them to not do my 2007 taxes and refund my money. I had to sign a waiver and the refunded me $325. I then told them I want my $5,650 refunded. They sent me another form and I went back and forth with the Review and Oversight Board for about 3 months. I finally decided to sign the waiver and take a loss here also. I was more interested in getting as much as possible refunded. By signing, I agreed to a refund of $3,743 out of $5,650. The form states 90 to 120 days before expecting the refund.

The stress over back taxes alone is tremendous, let alone have a company like JK Harris prey on you for more money. I waited and called JK Harris so many times and finally decided enough was enough. In January 2009 I searched the internet and immediately found out that 13 states had filed suit against JK Harris and PA was one of them. I contacted the PA Attorney General's office immediately. They took some information, told me to go to a website and print out a form and send it to them along with all correspondence from JK Harris and myself.

In March 2009 an associate from the Attorney General's office called and told me that JK Harris claimed they paid me in December 2008. I told her they didn't and she said she was going to call again and ask for a copy of the cancelled check. On March 24, 2009 a person from JK Harris called and told me to expect a check for $3,743 within a week. On March 30, 2009 I received the check. Everyone, contact your states Attorney General's office. File a complaint with them. Give them all the facts and paperwork and see what they can do. There are no guarantees it will work like my case, but wht do you have to lose. It's Free and it's your right.

Don't do what JK Harris claims they can do for you when you can do it for yourself. The IRS simply want the money you owe them. They will be glad to take the money that you are paying JK Harris. I had to call every week to get my money back. You got to be like an agressive credit card collector and they will get tired of you calling every week trust me it works.

We were having some trouble paying our back taxes because of the economic hard times I'm sure everyone is going through. We went to JK Harris for help. A man in a small local office promised us it could be reduced in no time and that attornys would be working on our case. He also promised us that all leans and levies would completely stop. We paid a large amount of money for him to do this for us. After 7 months with no word from anyone with JK Harris and a lien nitice from the IRS I fired them and am in the process of trying to get my money back.(wich will happen or I will file a civil lawsuit and get it.)

We are now so financially behind its not funny and we cant even sell anything to get the money because there is a lean on our properties. This has taken a toll on our marriage and family. I just pray the outcome of this doesn't turn out much worse. My husband has even considered just going to jail to settle it. I begged him not to so we've been doing everything else we can. My husban and I love each other very much along with our 2 children. I don't know what to do! My husban is working daylight to dark tryin to get us out of this mess and I cant get a job because we have no one to watch our children even if I could find one.(wich the unemployment rate in our county is 15%)Please pray for us.

We went to meet with them and the gentleman told us that we did not have to pay the IRS. Instead pay them. That was not true. They kept taking money out of our account but not doing anything. We told them they no longer had permission to take anymore money. We asked for a full refund and have not received anything.

This is a tax resolution firm that talks good results and promises things that cant happen or they dont do what they say they can do, they only make matters worse. I never thaught that I would be decived by a con artist and ripped off over $1000

Lost all my money, cant pay bills and ruined my family and my life. now my problems are compounded and getting worse.

My Wife and I paid HK Harris at an office in San Diego $1300.00 to file back taxes. Evidentally, they sent the case to another office. After more than 8 months of repeated inquiries, we received a package stating that we owed $12,000 in back taxes. We took the paperwork to a local tax consultant who found numerous, large mistakes in JK Harris' work.

We re-filed through the local agent, and received over $300.00 back in taxes. I explained all of this to JK Harris in faxes to Ms. Belinda Williams, but received no response. We paid $1,300.00 to a tax professional and received erroneous consultant services which would have cost us $12,00.00. I've been taken for at least $1,300.00.

Requested and was granted a REFUND, because they had done nothing for me except cost me $5200. To date I have not received my REFUND it has now been 8 months since I was told I would receive the refund within 90 days.

Because JK Harris lost my information, and failed to contact the IRS as promised, a refund of $5200 was kept by the IRS for back taxes owed even though I didn't owe the taxes.

After contacting JK Harris they assured me that this was a cut and dry case no problem they would settle with the IRS for pennies on the dollar. Over the past two years I have spoken to no lees than four Company Reps.I made my down payment and they began taking payments from my account on a monthly basis. Iheard nothing from them and call repetedly . I rarly spoke to my caseworker (C. Jackson) who said she had it all under control (when I did get to speak to her). Finaly I spoke with my new caseworker (K. Chapman) who informed me that Ms. Jackson had failed to send the proper documents in and the IRS would be turning my case down, I would be paying the full balance plus interest.

AS a father of four I have been scapping to find to monies to pay these scam artist plus fees for filing and forms that are probably bogus. I'm out of my 1200 down payment, 900 in filing and paper work fees, and another 2800 in monthly payments . Not to mention the torment of knowing the IRS can take my check at any time. I work hand to mouth as with four kids it works out that way . One is in placement for very bad psycological problems and one at home has severe ADHD and our medical bills are triple what most households are. We had to save for about 45 days just to make the so called filing fees. PLease help we are on the edge of being homeless and another 350 a month to the IRS would put us there. Thank you

i canceled my contract with jk harris on 8/27/07, i was promised a refund of $712 (of the 950 i paid them) i have contacted them at least 10 times as well as the bbb and washington state attorney general. their response is that i am in line and will be paid when it is my turn.

incredible amount of time and $950. I don't understand how they can stay in business and spend tons of money on advertising when they cannot afford to pay their refunds of two years ago.

I won a jugement vs. JKHarris and my lawyer and I got paid after 3 years of dealing with JK and 2 yrs 10 mths of my lawyer hard work. paided jk 3100 for 6yrs tax return to be done. they stalled lied cheated. i got check for 20,075.24 from jk last wk and it cashed. praise the good Lord amen. THEY CAN BE BEAT. copy of check can be seen. THEY ARE GOING DOWN.

I contracted with JK Harris to help me with my tax issues, but they were a waste of time. In September 2008, a representative of JK Harris signed us up for possible tax relief. Since that time and $3000 later, JK Harris has done nothing for us. After numerous phone calls and e-mails(which I have copies), JK Harris requested power of attorney because they needed to make contact with the IRS agent assigned to our case. Since that time, nothing was done and I continued to request updates on our case.

I was told that JK Harris had left messages with the IRS agent assigned to our case but have not gotten a return call from them. I then requested full documentation of our case file plus the name and phone number of the IRS agent. I never received any feedback on my request for information from Mrs Payne. After speaking with an tax attorney, he gracely contacted the local IRS to check on the status of our IRS issues. We were informed that they had no record of contact with JK Harris on my behalf. In addition, the IRS had us in the que but no one from the IRS was assigned to our account. In the meantime, JK representative continues to send out a computerize form stated our account will be suspended if we don't supply the information requested.

Numerous times, I have requested from JK Harris on what information is needed. I have never gotten anything from them. In addition, we were mislead by our representative on the type of service that JK Harris provides. Per Mrs P, all JK Harris was going to do, was negotiate a payment arrangements. When asked why is has taken five months to get any action out of JK Harris, we were told it takes time. Five months and $3000.. received no help.

i met with the sales person promised me to get a good offer and compromise and took my card. from then on nothing happened. its been 5 months. so far i paid 400 down and 233 for two months. i decided to wait for results before i pay more. i afraid they did nothing to resolve anything with the IRS> they only made things worse. i got a bank levy, a lien on my credit and now the IRS wants to garnish my wages for not responding to their notices.

I thought wow, nobody at jk harris called them? so the IRS is pretty mad at me and the whole time i thought i was being taken care of by my so called power of attorney. what a shame. i lost everything and jk harris has made everything worse. i wish i could get on a class action suit and at least stop them from playing all those nice commercials and get them to give my money back as well as pay off the IRS for false advertising. i owe 4k more than i did when i hired the jk harris. anybody out there that wants to help me? please let me know.

im on a contract with jk harris that i have to fight now. i owe the IRS more penalties and interest now and instead of being able to do the right thing i have to take two steps back and fight everyone. no wonder AMERICA is in the hole we are in, nobody does the right thing. ive lost everything i own. i went from successful to destitute within a few years. nobody cares

I owed the irs 10K in back taxes. I en listed Jk Harris to proceed with an offer in comprimise this was in 2005.for the most part all i was asked for was the same info to be up dated every 3 months or so. granted i was on a payment plan. either way over a year went by before they even processed my back tax returnes that they were contracted to do.which held up the offer.while this was going on i started bankruptcy proceedings (ch130.so my offer was on hold untill it was discharged.no problem.after discharge theyinfomed me that i nolonger had an irs obligation.i confermed this with the IRS. Fine i would like a refunsince all you really did was back taxes from 03,04. .

my fee was 2900 aprox. this was for tax returns offer in comprimise and financal serives. they offeried me $700 for the work they say they did. I complained they brought it up to just under $1300. Ok ill take it this was july 8 2008.i agreed to the 90 to 120 day wait for my money. 120 days comes and goes .i'm told they wont be able to pay me now . whats that all about.we entered an agreement i ecspect them to honor thier word. also during this time they stoped accepting phone calls to the review and oversigth dept.only can call an leave a message or e-mail.this company is the worst bunch of shamers ever totally unprofessional.take your money then give the run around that i have ever delt with in all my 40+ years. they should not have a business licence in any state as far as i'm concerned. thank you for your time.

I had seen the ads on television stating they could help with my IRS problems. I contacted the company and an appointment was set to discuss my case. The representative, whom I was led to believe was an attorney, spent about 30 rushed minutes with me, after he was late by over an hour. He told me that they could help and that they needed $1838 in upfront fees to proceed. Because this was during the severe economic problems, I told the rep that I did not have the money at that time and that I would need a few months to save. The rep had me sign a few documents and promised me the money would not be deducted from my bank account until I came in a finalized the agreement. Man was I duped!

Approximately 20 days later, while checking my bank account, I noticed they had debited me the FULL amount. I immediately started calling them with absolutely no results. No callbacks, nothing. I then disputed the charges with my bank. JK harris then responded to the dispute by stating that they were actively pursuing my case and that I had signed an agreement for JK harris to represent me. They did absolutely nothing for me, no services, no nothing, only took my money and never even contacted me.

Finally, after I pused the issue, they agreed to refund me $55, out of over $1800.00. I have since learned that they were orderd to pay consumer $1.5 million in a settlement for deceptive tactics and the attorney I met with was actually a salesman. I would love to join a class action lawsuit against this company that preys on vulnerable people that are just trying to get their IRS problems resolved. Shame on them!

We received a letter date 6/5/2008 explaining we won $3,600 in class action suit against JK Harris Tax Consultants. To date we have not received any corrspondence or money regarding this law suit. We have written several letters and called, but the number is disconnected. I also called the Courts in MN but they had no answer for us.

Because JK Harris Tax Consultant cheated us out our money and they are still in business, we should be paid. We are in need of our money, Calvin is now retired, sick and needs medical care, we can't afford. Please let us know if you can help us.

It Seems that my story is much like everyone else's. Back in 2005 I ask them to help me with my debt. After paying them the start-up costs I never heard from them again. I called about 6 months later to find out what was going on and I was passed around to a few different people.

I decided to cancel my account after getting very frustrated. I sent them the neccisary letter and thought I was done. NOT SO, a few months later I get a bill from them and I called to ask what that was for and they said they never recieved my letter. I wrote a second letter and moved away from my home at that time but left the correct forwarding address. Now after 3 years I'm getting a collection notice from their collection agency!

Not only did I lose the money I paid them, but I was still in debt way over my head and now I've got a collection agency after me, continuing to ruin my credit!

My Story Goes Back In 2006. Same Thing As everybody Describes. A Month Ago I Sued JKHarris And They Never Responded, Nor Did They Show Up. Judge Gave Me A Judgement Against Jkharris And Company, Jkharris Had 10 Days To Appeal Guess What They Never Did That Either, So Now That I Have A Judgement Im Going For The Writ Of Execution. Which Will Keep You All Posted On Outcome.

We hired JK Harris to help us with tax issues we were having. We paid them 3200 and at the end of everything they told us that they were unable to help us. We were told that we would be issued a partial refund within 90 to 120 days. Well guess what of course nothing. When you call all you get is the run around and rude represtatives. You ask to speak with someone above them and they say there is no one else youc an talk to. I think that we should all join forces in a class action lawsuit!

Got a better deal dealing with the IRS ourselves!!!!! Would love to be contacted by an attorney regarding this matter!!!!

i contracted with j.k. harris for a tax settlement, what they told me they could do, was not accurate. I paid them 1200 dollars. september the 10th, 2008, they agreed to return appx. 700 dollars too me. they simply will not return it after agreeing to. I call, they refer me to other people and when i e mail they simply go around the subject. It is a large ripoff.

I owed $11, 000 in taxes. I saw a commercial for JK Harris made an appt, and was told they could help me. They said they would be able to get my taxes reduced, probably by half. So I signed the contract! $1700 and a year later, they reduced my taxes by $100.00 yes, just $100.00. I could have paid the money I paid them to the IRS. instead I racked up more penalties and interest for another year and got nothing but a payment plan.

They did absolutely nothing for me but take my money and get me further in debt. When I complained to them, they just inform me that my contract doesn't guarantee they will do anything. I got totally scammed by these people, and feel there isn't anything I can do about it.

I am out the $1700.00 fee I paid JK Harris, with no results at all. I am several thousand dollars deeper in debt with the IRS now, racking up penalties and interest for the past year, while JK Harris took my money and wasted my time.

Due to loss in business in July 2006, we entrusted J K Harris with Power of Attorney to settle our taxs [personal and business] Their fee has been paid, they got an agreement on our personal taxes but not on business taxes. I've signed Power of Attorney twice and sent them everything they asked for; but to avail on our business taxes and now 2 1/2 years and more PENALTIES and fees still nothing.

I have to call them [ TWO CASE WORKERS LATER] to get to talk to anyone. reason given: CANNOT GET AN APPOINTMENT WITH AN IRS MAN - TOO MANY PEOPLE IN LINE ON THE BUSINESS SIDE OF TAXES. I would go to IRS , but they tell me I shouldn't do that. Added interest and penalties - total we could never pay

I am absolutely convinced that all these reports about them are valid and will not have anything to do with them. Their TV commercials look so inviting but as usual, are wrong.

I observed a TV commercial during the month of August, 2008 about JK Harris and Company stating they could people with their tax debt owed to IRS. I called them and made an appt. for August 26Th, 2008. I met with Jeanine B, consultant with JK Harris and Co.

I signed an agreement for them to at least to represent me with IRS and obtain an installment agreement. I already had an installment agreement with the state of Missouri. Jk Harris stated that I had too much in real estate assets to get a reduction in taxes owed. I paid them $1850 down and agreed to $211 per month which would be an direct charge payment on my Visa debit card each month starting Nov.1st,2008 for the balance of total charges of $3700. I was to supply them with various personal and income data of which I sent to their South Carolina office within the next 30 days.

Proir to my visit with JK Harris I had made contact with IRS during August. A representative informed me about an agreement which I could pay them $25,000 each time to avoid any penalties. Because my debt at that time was $66,000 and did not have that kind of funds available I felt pressured to seek JK Harris's help. IRS never told me about any monthly installment agreement. I already had obtained an istallment agreement with the state of Missouri for $390 per month. Thus, I concluded there were no similiar installment agreements from IRS. I supplied JK Haris with quite a bit of information on me to work my case. I found they did receive my mailed info in month of September.

I didn't hear anything during October from Jk Harris. I did recieve from IRS during October notices of intent to lien and levy mailed out to me Oct.5th,2008. I contacted JK Harris and they requested I send these notices to their South Carolina office. I did and they informed me they would follow-up with IRS. Meanwhile Jk Harris on Nov.1st,2008 did get paid directly from my Visa account the agreed upon $211 payment but they also sent me a bill for $211 later that same month to be paid to c/o Professional Fee Financing Associates who handles their payment accounts. I called JK Harris about this double payments and they directed me to Professional Fee who resolved the matter by allowing that payment I paid via the mailed payment to be used for December's payment and they would skip their direct charge to my account for this month and it pick up on the January payment.

JK Harris sent to me around December 5th,2008 a installment agreement letter to be sent by me to IRS of $322 per month along with setting up my account a fee charge. The letter stated I needed to submit this payment by December 28th,2008. I sent this letter in on time but Jamnuary 5th,2009 I received another letter from IRS stating they were to issue a lien and also a levy on my social security benefits and I had 30 days to request a hearing otherwise. I contacted Sherri Black of JK Harris and advised her of such and she asked me to send her these notices. I did and she informed me that someone with powers of attorneys in her company was on my case. Prior to this I had received several notices from JK Harris stating they were in need of certain documents in my file.

While on the phone with Sherri B I insisted those documents were included in the original package I had sent to her. She went thru her file and did indeed verify she had the needed information. Also, I received duplicate letters from Sherri B of JK Harris seeking/requesting again documentation they needed to process my case. These letters came after january 14th,2009. Again, I was able to show them they indeed have all my paperwork of which they realized in error they did have them. At this time I expressed to Sherri B urgency on my part needing someone from JK Harris to follow-up on the IRS liens and levues and I inquired about the progress of my case. I told her that IRS had informed me that a case worker had been assigned my case. She had no knowledge of such. She asked me to obtain the phone number and address of that IRS case worker. I did supply that to her.

As of Febuary 2nd,2009 no one from JK Harris has provided IRS with information on me except for leaving a message once with my assigned IRS caseworker. I complained of this to Sherri B and she informed I am not allowed to contact directly JK Harris's powers of attorneys but I must restrict myself to contacting her. My assigned IRS worker did make a home visit with me and I supplied her with some of the same information I gave to JK Harris to provide with IRS. The IRS agent has tentatively reviewed my request for a installment agreement and will work with me directly on an arrangement and is willing to work with JK Harris's powers of attorney if they ever follow-up with her. IRS have their numbers and JK Harris has hers but all the paerwork and documentations that I've provided to JK Harris and the starting payment of $322 is unbeknown by JK Harris of who has received it.

Over 3 years ago I paid JK Harris to help with credit issues. A year later they closed that division. Of course I received no notice. They did however acknowledge the owed me a refund of $828. They claimed it would take up to 120 days to pay. That was in January of 2008. Repeated emails, even to JK Harris himself, are responded to the same exact way. These people are thieves. I paid the money I needed to pay. They did not perform their services and by their own measures owed me a refund. I don't know how they can be allowed to continue in business with all of these complaints.

They have over $800 of my money that I could use to help pay for my son's college tuition. I never thought I would have to wait this long for money that belongs to ME.

JK Harris failed to deliver on their promise, and I believe strongly now that they engaged in deceptive marketing and advertising practices. JK Harris did not perform or attempt to perform any communication to the IRS as promised and advertised in the time needed. The IRS levied my wage. This was after multiple letters I received and immediately sent to JK Harris regarding the IRS's intent to levy notices, they did nothing.

JK Harris is happy to take your money ($4500) and then sit on their hands. In the meantime the IRS will be adding interest and penalties to your account, as they did with me. Since I could not wait any longer, based on the fact the IRS was taken 90 percent of pay at this point, I was forced to contact the IRS directly, I found they were easier to deal with and more responsive the JK Harris was. I recommend that you nor anyone else use them. Try contacting the IRS directly, it will save you money and stress.

I am out thousands of dollars and my employer was contacted by the IRS, which I was trying so hard to avoid.

christian church located in raleigh nc retained JK Harris to resolve huge tax problem. JK Harris told me as the pastor that they would do an offer and compromise with IRS. they broke my heart, because they didnt do a thing except kept the moneis that we paided to the company.

we lost our church valued at 1.8 million dollars, 5,200 retainer fee. force the church to file a chapter eleven and a chapter seven

In July 2008, I visited with a JK Harris & Company consultant, J. Sokoloff, in Kansas City, Missouri regarding my back taxes. Unfortunately, on July 29, 2008, I signed an agreement and paid them $300.00 as a down payment. After that initial payment the amount of $183.00 was to be deducted from my checking account every month until the balance of $1,800.00 was paid in full. I should have known something wasn't right because on November 13, 2008, the IRS withdrew $157.31 from my checking account plus my bank charged me $100.00 transaction fee and $35.00 for an overdraft fee (because I didn't anticipate this money coming from my account). I had already paid $183.00 on November 1, 2008, to JK Harris so by November 13, 2008, I had paid a total of $475.31 because JK Harris failed to do their job.

Then I received a letter dated December 3, 2008, from Alliance One trying to collect a debt which turned out to be the taxes I owe to the state of Kansas. I forwarded this and additional information to Ms. Youngblood on December 23, 2008, and asked if I should contact the state of Kansas or should she do it since she was my case specialist. On January 13, 2009, I e-mailed Ms. Youngblood and informed her that I had not heard from her regarding the notice from Alliance One. On January 14, 2009, she e-mail me a Kansas Department of Revenue Power of attorney form to sign and return to her. She said that a representative will get in touch with the Kansas Department of Revenue and Alliance One.

I called Alliance One today, February 2, 2009, and they have not received anything from JK Harris. I have yet to call the Kansas Department of Revenue but I can almost guarantee that they have not sent anything to them either. On Friday, January 30, 2009, my employer received a Notice of Levy on my wages from the Internal Revenue Service. I panicked and first called JK Harris. My case specialist, V. Youngblood, was unavailable. I asked if they knew when she would be available and they said that actually she was being transferred to another department and that I was being assigned to a different case specialist. I explained my situation and we went around and around and around. She flat out lied to me about everything.

This forced me to call IRS. I asked if they had received any correspondence from JK Harris regarding my taxes and he said that the only correspondence they received was dated August 8, 2008. I looked back in my files and found the correspondence dated August 8 and all it was was an Account Transcript of the taxes I owed.....that's it. The only way I could get the levy lifted was to start a payment plan with the IRS, which I did. I immediately terminated my agreement with JK Harris & Company. I wish I would have done research on JK Harris before I decided to depend on them to help me with my taxes. I am going to fight to get my money back. Filing this consumer complaint is not the end of my fight!

I guess the lesson I learned is that I got myself into this mess and I will get myself out of this mess! I was just getting deeper and deeper in debt.....first it was my divorce, then I lost my job, then I was diagnosed with breast cancer (in 2003) and I am still fighting the cancer today. I was just hoping to eliminate my taxes so that I could get a fresh start and concentrate of paying my medical bills. This has caused me additional stress, anger, and expenses and that's the last thing I need right now. Company's like JK Harris need to be put out of business!

I was expected a refund over 2 yrs ago and keep getting the run around. I have now hired a lawyer and myself and 12 other unsatisfie customers are filing a law suit to get our money back . I was supposed to get a refund in 90-120 days its been way past that also these guys aren't registered w/the secretary of state they are under investgation.

they have in turn messed up my taxes for two yrs and cost us thousands of dollars. something MUST be done!

I with my own admission of stupidity did not know how to go about filing taxes. Being young ,without children and fairly prosperous, it never struck me as important. I wasn't getting a return. As I became older I found myself surrounded by smarter and more influential people who finally convinced me that there was an importance to filing. I never meant to cheat anyone and being christian finally stepped forward to do the right thing. I was running a small buisness and kept excellent records.

Everyone I know that did something similar had very little tax liability do to deductions . I was confident this could be resolved. I first met with a JK Harris assosiate in 2002. At that time I had been off work for almost 6 months do to a serious injury. Looking at another 4 months off, I had time for resolution. They took my money at the consultation and made me feel as though it was routine and no problem.3 months later ,I had heard from noone. I called and in my own way expressed disatisfaction. 2 weeks later I recieved all the 1099's I had ever been issued in the mail. I took this as there was action going on.

I went back to work, starving and concentrating on the catch up. Winter came and I was given the opportunity to go to Florida. I took it . A large hurricane had just gone through and it took sevemonths to settle. In the mean time another hurricane came through destroying the storage facility where my records were stored . A year after I had been here ,I was offered a management position in the feild I had spent my life in. Finally salary,bonus,health insurance and lots of tax money withheld. When it came tax time I still had no resolution.

It is now 2006. I called JK Hartris to find my status and they told me that my case was inactive and I went through the whole story of my taxes with them again. The basic jist was that I wanted to get back on the books ,straighten this mess out and fly straight . They sent me a contract to sign , which I did. I now think I have representation and someone to go to bat on my behalf, in my interest.2 more months went by so I called . At that time it was explained that I needed to send them some records that I had already explained to them, I do not have. They sent me some forms to fill out on a year by year basis with a copy of my 1099 for the said year. I filled them out to the best of my ability, being conservative. I owe the government money . I'm not a cheat and I have little to no documentation.

I sent them back and low and behold 3 weeks later I recieved those years of prepared taxes to send the IRS. I found 2 of them to have ommitted major deductions I had submitted so I called them. I feel as though I was talking to some teenager because as we went through it she saw that I was right and laughed it off. Just my life ya know. She made the corrections and promptly sent them to me. I sent them on to the IRS.I waited until the IRS started sending me nasty letters and 9 months had passed so I called JK Harris again. I was told that my case was inactive. I hit the roof . "what do you mean inactive?" I was told the lady that was handling my case was no longer there and my files had been left in the wrong department. Just the kind of excuse someone would like to hear about their taxes .Keep in mind that I have been sending them $270 a month this whole time.

Finally I was reassigned yet another case worker. I asked her what was going on. She went through the next step. In my anxiety I told her that I would be calling the next day and I want answers. She asked answers about what. I want to know how much I owe, How we proceed , an outline of a payment plan and when we plan to finish this. I was then informed that I had only contracted them to prepare my taxes. I went ballistic. Noone would pay $3200 to only have their taxes prepared. There are H&R Blocks on every corner. For that money , I could have had a local tax attorney prepare them. I argued the piont. My understanding was that this is a tax relief service. Who would prepare and send in their back taxes without a plan of resolution? Apparently me as she argued back. I hung up.

I called back the next day and demanded to speak to a manager of the complaint department. I told her the same thing I got the same trained responses. I felt like I was dealing with some teenagers laughing at me on the other end. She added information though. If I want JK Harris to represent me at the meeting with the IRS I would just need to call for a consultation and we then could discuss the terms and prices for those services. I flipped. I ended the conversation by saying that she and her company are a bunch of incompitent liars and when I am done with my tax deal, I will be hiring a compitent attorney to sue them for misrepresentation.

I now find that I owe the IRS $26,000 with the forms filed by them. Up until my dealings with JK Harris, I was not even on the radar with them. Now I get 5 nasty letters a week. I did stop pay JK Harris from getting anymore money from my accounts. Let them report it to the credit burreau. Try to get a home lone with the IRS chasing you. Something that never would have happened without their involvement.

These people are not professionals. If there is a license for this buisness, theirs should be pulled. If there is not a license, there should be. I have read several of thes complaints and quite a few people said what I have been thinking. There needs to be a class action suit against these thieving liars. There is no telling how many trusting , in need of help peoples lives these criminals have screwed with. LETS GET EM'

I signed up on Oct. 15 2008 owing $40,000. I was told about a former IRS Director employed by them, and that based on the interviewers experience my case would be settled for 10%. He also had me sign Powers that would have the IRS send all notices to them, or at least copies - I dont recall which. I was told Harris would negotiate for me and i should not contact IRS.

I just received a Notice of Levy, I now owe $45,000, NOT A PENNY WAS WAIVED BY THE IRS, and I just called them and was told JK HARRIS HAS NOT COMMUNICATED WITH THEM SINCE DEC. 11 WHEN THEY REQUESTED A TRANSCRIPT. Now the IRS thinks I have ignored previous letters from them since i thought Harris was working on it! These guys must be sued...they are in a business so consumer sensative in reagrd to their reputation and integrity they are sitting ducks if this comes to light. Can someone help...please!

If my wife finds out I owe this much, and liens are placed on our assets, my marriage is over. I cant sleep, i am a nervous wreck.

I met with an account manager in Myrtle Beach, SC - Spring of 2008 who assured me that J.K. Harris could have the penalties and interest abated. I then received a call from Ms. Wright who told me I was not eligible for any abatements - of course I had already paid $5,250. In October, I signed a release form and was promised a refund of $1,750 because J.K. Harris had not even filed a form. I have yet to see the refund and PRO - the individual who responds to my emails without any identification - says they can not say when I might receive my money.

These people are nothing but crooks praying on people who need help. There needs to be something done to shut these illicit operators down. Having trouble with the IRS is terrible - being ripped off by J.K. Harris just adds insult to injury! I am working with the IRS directly now as well as the State of NC - both of whom told me J.K. Harris was the worst firm in this business - by far.

So far, I am out $5,250 and my tax penalties and interest continue to mount.

Signed acontract with JK Harris to release levy on my husbands Disability to to prepare 2007 taxes and to get a payment plan to pay off debt and get rid of penalties. paid them $500 plus $225 a month. Asked for financial and bill information which I sent they said they never recived it they keep asking for info and claim they don't get it. I sent them notices from the IRS about levies nothing was done 3 months a go a garnishment was out on my salary when I called them after numerous calls they told me the levy was lifted and that it was my payroll dept's fault. when I called payroll they said they had not been contacted by any company.

tHen JK harris told me they sent ot to the wrong place it should have gone to NYS tax, I asked why a Tax relif co wouldn't no where to send the correct papaer work. I am so fed up with this company I am filing a small claims action against them. If there is a class action I want to be included. They are rip off artist of the 1st degree.

Salary being garnished. Husbands disabilty being garnished. I am having a hard time trying to pay bills with the decrease in wages and funds coming in.

I went to JK Harris for help about IRS. Payed them all the money they wanted and did not get help. IRS is still tryin to take all the money they say I owe. But do not owe anything because the kids I have are mine. When I call JK Harris they say I still owe them money. Who can I call to get help with gettin my money back and also help with IRS to solve my problem

IRS is still saying I owe them I need help bad Thank you

I contracted with JK HARRIS & ASSOCIATES through their local rep, C. Given, to obtain an IRS MASTERFILE on my income for the years 2003, 2004, 2005 & 2006 and to prepare my taxes and mediate a settlement with the IRS for pennies on the dollar for the back taxes that I owed. I paid $500 in cash and agreed to a payment of $80 a month for 10 months to pay off the balance of $800 to be taken directly from my checking account. When I received the first debit notice on my bank account, I found out that they were going to debit my account for $110, $30 more a month than was agreed on.

I called C. Given and threatened to close out my bank account if he did not change the debit amount back to the $80 that we had agrred on. They did get the debit amount straightened out and then I saw that they were charging me a $10 processing fee each month that I was not told about. When I finally received my taxes back, I called and tried to contact Chris to find out if he was going to help me before I mailed the returns to the IRS.

He would not return my calls and when I finally called the main office, I was told that I had only paid to have my taxes prepared and if I wanted JK HARRIS to mediate with the IRS on my behalf, I would have to come back in and sign a new contract for those services. The lady told me that paying $800 to have my taxes prepared for 4 years was a bargain. I tried to tell her that I had paid a heck of a lot more than $800 to them but she didn't want to hear it. I'm paying 18% interest and I've made 13 payments of $80 totalling $1040 and I've got at least 4 more payments to pay before I have [this] paid off.

They did not help me settle my debt with the IRS for pennies on the dollar and I had to spend my vacation days at the IRS office trying to work out a payment agreement so they would not attach my bank account. They actually cost me an extra year's worth of penalties and interest on my taxes that added a couple of thousand dollars to my tax debt. They lied and their TV commercials are a joke. If they had to pay restitution, it should have been distributed to the clients they ripped off, not a bunch of attorneys or the state

J K's consultant told me my tax debt would become reduced by approx. 60 - 70 % and that i would be able to make monthly payments that would start the very next month , this started in december 07, i paid him over $7,000.00 to straighten out my money problems with the irs and that i would be contacted by the main office to do more work like tax defferals in the stock market and business solutitions that would put me in a write off tax bracket where i would keep money instead of paying all kind of tax.

i went home and 3 months went by and my bank account was being deducted $250.00 @ month and they did nothing , the irs wrote to me and told me that if i had not start paying they would start siezing my property , i wrote them begging there forgiveness and told them about this deal i made with these tax profesionels , i figured at that point that i was being ripped off by a major company scheme. i proceededd to call J K arris daily to stop all the nothing they were doing and to get my money back so i could give that money to the irs. it took 3 months to stop everything and they came up with a settlement agreement of aproximitly 50% for the 3 different forms i signed ,, this would give be back about 3500 dollars , well to get my money i signed it ,,

now comes the better part , first they told me there was a different form i needed to sign and fax back , so they took another 3 months to get all 3 forms to me , the refunds as they callled it was split into 3 catogories , the first payment i recieved was in july , 6 months after this all started , then the second came in july , and the third release form came in august the 13th 2008 ,, this refund has NOT reached me yet , of course this is the larger of the 3.. not to bad for a company to profit on tens of thousands of people that they are doing nothing for , i paid over 7 grand and if i get the rest of this settlement agreement i will get almost half back ,, they profit over $3,500 just for making an appointment !!!

My wife and I were led to beleive that there was no way I could be held responsible for a Student Loan I took out back in 1988. I had no benifit from the school a supposed Business College. I was recruited out of a welfare office and told if I signed up I would receive all this money and stuff. Well being a homeless person at the time, I jumped on this opputunity. The Co. that owned the school was disolved in 1991. To make a long story short I still owe the money because of no action by J.K.Harris. In fact now I owe them $2,000 for what I can,t tell.

I paid JK Harris $3,500.00 to work with the IRS to release a levy. I was not satisfied with the work that JK Harris was performing. I asked for a refund. I received a letter explaining that I will receive a partial refund and it will take between 90 - 120 days. It's been over 154 days and I have not received a answer from them. They keep telling me that they do not know when the refund will be given. Is there anyone I can talk to regarding this matter. Thanks alot.

Signed with JKHarris in July of 200, July in 2008 I had to personally file my OIC, I've worked with 2 reps, 2 managers and I still had to do this myself. I believe I'm working with the same person, only they changed their name. Fortunately, I have email confirmations from JKHariss and have proof of their neglegence. I have been deailing with the IRS myself and will have my final response within the 45 days. JKHarris told me it would be 1 year, although here it is January 2009,

it took me working with the IRS and providing them with all the information they needed that this is finally coming to a resolution and it only took 45 days from the time I took it over. I paid JKH over $3500, my taxes at the time were only $16 I am now looking at $26 due to the fact that they prolonged the project. It makes me sick to read how everyone got them to help like I did and I'm not alone. I would hope that someone out their is willing to do a class action suit again JKH.

When you continue to read the complaints against them which is well over 4200 and it's all the same. They need to be stopped. They need to repay everyone back with interest. The people that I dealed with their (in which I've read a few others have used the same person) Rene & Lakisha, I believe them to be one in the same. I have over 188 documented emails from both representatives and they totally contradict themselves as well as prove they did absolutely nothing and prove that I did it all myself.

JKH called the IRS on my behalf on January 5th of 2009, what happened with the last 1 1/2, no one knows, they had me sign 7 Power of Attorneys during that 1 1/2. I plan to sue them. I plan to follow through with making them pay for all the hardship they added to my already pending irs problems. I am under the care of a physcian for stress/depression due to the irs pending problems I have. My taxes nearly doubled in the 1 1/2 that JKH took over.

I met with consulants from JK Harris in April 0f 2008. (Travis and his Supervisor) I was told that it was 99% chance that he they could reduce my taxes to at least $10,000 from $80,00. I prepared all of the paperwork they asked for and supplied them to the company. My representative's name is Rene. The first offer she sent us was incorrect. I found an error wherein she had not submitted all of the information. When I told her she said that the figures would change if she entered the corrected information.

Well she reworked the paper work and sent me another offer. This offer was much more than I had been told that it would be. I could not afford this offer. Finally she sent another offfer and I submitted it to the IRS. They rejected it. I have tried with no success to speak with her Supervisor. When I e-mail her it always takes several days to get a boggus answer. I would not advise anyone to use this company. I have lost close to $4500 on this scheme.

I am 64 years old and have been trying to get this debt resolved with the IRS for more than 5 years. I keep getting the run around with them so I thought I would if I tried this company I could finally get some results.WRONG! Because of the situation I am in I cannot get credit or get a decent rate on my mortagage. I would love to get some assistance, but at this point I cannot afford to.

Two years ago, I was sent information to a Law firm respresenting a class action case against JK Harris. The Law Firm stated that the case would be decided by mid 2008. I have not hear anything from the that case. I lost over $2500 using JK Harris Company.

JK Harris did not file the necessary documents with the IRS as contracted to do.

I needed help with my taxes so i called jk harris in march and went into the office on 3/10/06 i paid 500 up front as the first payment i was told they would help me our payments where 250 a month like 5 mos they did nothing for us we got garnished when i called they said they where working on it they needed more info i faxed more then they where helping they never called irs for us they didnt fix anything they where supose to fix or even help us when we said enoff was enoff they said they wouldnt return our money

we now are 10,000 in dept to the irs for back taxes late fees i lost my job due to stress they are taking more then we make we are strugling and they want to take more the irs does we cant afford this my husband is the only one working right now i dont see this getting better they should be punished for this i cry i am depressed worried that they will take our stuff what little we have they want our bank accout so they can get that too ty JK harris what a big help you where we could have given the IRS that 1500 dollors

I went to JK Harris office in Lorain in May 2006. I paid them $1500.00 up front to straighten up a IRS claim. JK Harris. They completed the taxes for me to file. They set up automated deductions to my credit card monthly. I took out a loan to pay the balance so my credit card wouldn't be effected. I have had nothing but the same run around as everyone else. Refusal to let you speak with someone in upper management.

Countless request to send the same information. Either they didn't receive it or the information is out dated. I finally contact IRS myself and is working with them to correct. In the meantime, I will be contacting the Better Business Bureau about the way JK Harris is ripping the consumer off.

This has caused continous loss of sleep. Fear of losing my home.

My wife & I went to JK Harris in Ocala, Fl. The person there told us we will only have to pat a fraction of the amount we owe to the IRS. Since then JKHarris has done very little to keep there agreement to help us with our tax problem. We've called seveial times without a responce from them. They keep telling us they will call us back. The IRS & JKHarris keeps asking us for more information about out income & financial payments. As far as my wife & I know JKHarris has not contacted IRS (as per IRS telling us) IRS keeps sending us letters for the information. Since JKHarris has done nothing, we sent the forms to IRS. Since JKHarris has not keeped there side of the agreement we stopped paying them.

In Oct IRS sent us a payment plain that is well above our income & payments. IRS states that we will make $194,172,99 this year. And we could afford to pay $1,499.00 each month. I receive SSI of $1,658.00 per month. We called JKHarris about this. JKHarris said to talk to the finance co about reducie our payments in half. The finance co did so. Buy they tell us that we must not be more then 60 days past due. JKHarris said if we just make one payment they will continue helping us again. Thay say we have to make two payments. When we called JKHarris back, they said Professional Fee was incorrect. One payment is enough.

We are now at an impasse with them. We are just starting to keep up with our financial problems. Since JKHarris & the finance co has agreed to have cut the payments in half the finance co should tell JKHarris to start helping us again. JKHarris tells us one payment is enough but thr finance co says it's not. Where do we go from here. JK Harris now tells us that we have to pay the IRS $150.00 each mo. That is the same amount we were told by the IRS to pay them a year ago. Is this how JK Harris does business? We pay them, they do not have us pay a fraction or what we owe the IRS, plus we still have to pay the IRS the full amount. Do we need help?

Let alone we have a small income the IRS says we will make (according to our estimated income) 150,000.00+ this year. I receive $1600 from SS plus pay from a part time job. That's less then 25,000 this year,

I hired J.K. Harris in April of 2008 for close to $5,000 to help with a few years of back taxes. On May 31st I found out that my paycheck was garnished by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I quickly called J.K. Harris only to be told that all of my paperwork was not submitted properly. My question to them was why did it take you a month to tell me. They had no answer!

I then asked them if they could contact the Commonwealth of Mass to let them know we are working to get a payment plan to pay this amount back. I called every day for over a week to have an abatement letter created. Again this went unanswered by J.K. Harris! In August 2008 I had a payment agreement with both the IRS and Commonwealth, and my paycheck continued to be garnished till mid September. For three months I asked J.K. Harris for the abatement letter and got NOTHING!!! I received a letter at the end of September 2008 that a new rep was handling the penalties and interest on both the IRS and Commonwealth. I have called more times than I can remember and no update or information can be given by this rep! DO NOT USE J.K. HARRIS!!!!!

Lost $5,000 to hire this bogus company, garnished paychecks for 3 months totaling over $3,800

j k harris promised for a fee which they collected from monthly drafts form by checking account to contact all parties i owed money to arrange for settlements and make arrangements for me to pay since 6/2005 for total amount of 1090.00. They told me to stop making payments. they would take care of everything - all they did was ask for 2 credit reports which i already had, and take money,

when i called i got one rep afer another stating they was new to case and had to start over because the previous person couldnt locate their records, and nothing came to me, call again time after time with different rep and they still did nothing. After years of frustration ask for money back and all they stated they give me back was about 438.00, that's been since beginning of 2008 and 11 months has passed and still no check as been sent - now when i call the phone line is busy, i even email them and still no answer.

Because of J K Harris making my situtation is worst i cannot get the job i want due to credit, cannot buy home because of credit, even rent a decent apartment, cannot get car loan, or credit card with a good discount rate, plus i am ashamed i could have been taken by these people, my blood pressure gone up and sometimes i can't sleep,

i can't believe our government would continue to let these type of practices to go on this country where, crooked law firms get away stuff like this, j k harris owner's should pay all monies they defrauded people, and go to jail.

I went to JK Harris office in San Antonio, Tx for help in October 2007 with an IRS matter. The intake specialist that I spoke with gathered all my information, and he said, that they could help me settle with the IRS for less than $600. He said, that in order for JK Harris to help me I had to agree to pay $500 down payment and $283 a month for 10 months starting November 2007 and supposely ending in August 2008.

Well, in Juen I received a letter from their loan agency informing me of their finance charges for JK Harris, and I immediately call JK Harris and questioned that. JK Harris specialist informed me that they had a loan department that finance for them and as a client we are responsable for paying the interest rates and therefore, my ten months was no longer ten months I had to make my final payment of $243 in September 2008.

Well, going back to the beginning of the year JK Harris kept sending my husband papers to fill out, which we completed and dropped off at their local office. We then got more letters stating that they never received or documents so I again submitted the documents requested. After all that they sent us my husband tax forms completed for the years he had already paid someone else to file, so again I was on the phone with JK Harris asking why they were filing my husband's information if I wasn't married to him at the time that I had the issue with IRS and he had already filed his taxes for those years. I never heard back from them and in June of 2008 I get a letter from the IRS with a final notice to intent to take posseession of my properties.

My family had to struggle for over 11 months to pay for JK Harris service. As it stands we will still be struggling because I had to come to agreement with the IRS to settle the matter, before they continued to take possession of what little we owned. My family lives off a tight budget and after paying all the bills we have close to $200 left a month and that is for food, but now we will once again have to struggle because JK Harris failed us. The IRS kept my returns for 2006 & 2007, and all this was due to a company that I did work for and they filed the wrong return.

I filed to resolve my tax problems with J K Harris abou 2 1/2 years ago and they agreed to settle by paying me back $3400.00. I have not seen or been contacted by the firm. What should I do? I agreed to not sue if I agreed on repayment.

I, myself is a victim too. I contacted JK Harris and Company in June to help me with my installment payment and possibly eliminate fees and interests associated with the balance I owed. The Rep that I met with said he could reduce my payment down to half and eliminate fees and interests. So I signed the contract and he transferred my case to a specialist in their head office. I could never reach him after that.

This so claimed specialist contacted me and seemed clueless about my case, I almost had to explain to her what I requested to them every time i spoke with her on the phone. She also told me that interests and fees were not going to be eliminated which is the opposite of what was told me at the initial meeting.

After I found this contradiction I became weary about the company. I started think about getting a refund. So i wrote them a refund letter and it took them longer than the 45 business days they claimed, and the letter basically claimed that they did 80% of what was being agreed to on the contract which means they are going to take 80% of the 1500 dollars that I paid. In reality they had done nothing for me, and what they claimed they could do in the first place, I later found out I can do myself over the phone through an automated phone service.

I paid my fee with a credit card, and I am currently a full time student so it is difficult for me to have to make that payment especially when there was no service done for me in anyway that was beneficial.

On October 3, 2007, I signed a contract with JK Harris to negotiate a settlement with the IRS. I agreed for JK Harris to withdraw $318.00 per month from my checking account for one year in exchange for their services. I also paid them a down payment of $500.00 the date that I signed the contract. They requested an enormous amount of financial information from me which included copies of all debts and assets for a 3 month period of time. I kept calling them and they told me they were working on the account. In August 2008, I demanded they complete their responsibilities under the contract. Their response was they now needed ALL OF THE SAME FINANCIAL INFORMATION AGAIN AS THE INFORMATION I HAD GIVEN THEM WAS OUTDATED.

I complied and sent this packet of information to them. I again contacted them telling them the IRS was going to place a lien on me as of November 14, 2008 unless payment arrangements were made. On November 7, 2008, I received a return call from a different agent, Michelle Bryant, telling me she had a note saying she needed to contact me or the IRS on November 14, 2008. I asked her where Cynthia was and explained the November 14, 2008 date was the deadline for the IRS lien. She stated Cynthia no longer worked for JK Harris and she did not see any documents in my file.

Later that day she left a voice mail message for me to send once again (this is the third time) ALL OF THE SAME FINANCIAL INFORMATION THAT HAD BEEN SENT TO JK HARRIS TWICE BEFORE. By now, my contract was paid in full to JK Harris and I could not provide her with all of the debt and asset information for the last 3 months in time for her to contact and prevent me from having a lien placed on my account.

I am a Public Defender working for the State of Florida and my annual salary is only $42,000. I went to law school at the age of 50 and now owe student loans over $160,000. I will be 68 years of age this December and all of any extra money I could obtain last year was spent paying JK Harris. If a lien is placed on my account I may lose my job with the State of Florida and could also lose my license to practice law. I informed JK Harris of this and their response was to continue stalling me by asking for the same documents over and over. They refuse to allow me to speak to anyone in authority.

When I send emails to anyone in authority, they respond by having the same entry level person contact me. It has been over a year since I signed a contract with JK Harris for their services and my obligation for payment to them is complete. To date, they have made no effort to fulfill their obligation to me. They are in Breach of Contract by failing to contact and negotiate on my behalf with the IRS. I believe the Federal Government should get involved and investigate the practices of JK Harris; especially since they practice across state lines.

I paid JK Harris $2,400 up front in full to help me with an IRS Notice to Levy in February 2008. As it turns out, I was simply late on a payment plan with the IRS. I was able to catch up on payments and no action was needed on my behalf from JK Harris. Therefore, I requested a partial refund. On May 13, 2008, I was informed by JK Harris that I would receive a refund of approx. $1,600. I signed and sent a "Receipt and General Release" on May 28, 2008, which was received and forwarded to JK Harris' Accounting Dept. for processing on June 11, 2008. The signed agreement stated that I would receive my refund in 90-120 days.

It has been almost 150 days now and I have not received my refund. Numerous requests to JK Harris have come up empty. JK Harris refuses to give me any information about the status of my refund. The standard form response I have received multiple times is that my refund is "subject to rescheduling until such a time as our Accounting Department confirms the printing and transmission of an individual check. I have also called their offices but I always get an answering machine and when I leave a message, I am told again that there is no information available about my refund.

I have begged JK Harris for more information because of my signed agreement, as well as letting them know that this is causing me great hardship. But I have wasted my time and still cannot get any information about my refund. The latest response I received on Oct. 28, 2008 was "We are currently working to process the delayed refund checks as quickly as we can, but we are temporarily unable to accurately project check dates beyond the current week due to the delays. We are hopeful that these delays will be cleared up soon, but until that time, any additional information regarding this check date would be purely speculative." I keep getting the run-around and there is no end in sight. I have no idea if I ever will actually receive my refund. JK Harris is free to delay my refund indefinitely. I do not think that continuing to write or call them will help. They keep giving me form responses that tell me nothing. I am very desperate and at the end of my rope.

They said they where going to help me with the irs. Im in awheel chair and i gave them 1000 and they wanted more and they had a collection people call me saying that i owed more, please help me, get my money back. I had to close out my acc. They keot taking money out.

im limeted on funds and getting around. they scared me when the collection people called, they never helped me.

I just got a form letter from them offering me $1542.00 settlement which is half of what they owe me ($3100.00) YOu know as well as I do it is a ploy to buy them more time. I advised the Attny. Gen. in S.C. & Florida and again I demanded they send me my $3100.00. At 70 years old and on soc. sec. only I hope the two attn.gens. put some one in jail. I will keep you posted if you like when & if I hear anything else. Keep up the good work

IRS HAS FILED A TAX LEIN AGAINST ME,

Desparation certainly does make us fools doesn't it? Even as I write this I can't believe I didn't see this coming.

We spent weeks gathering information for them. We mailed it off thinking that this would all be over soon. About two months later, we received a letter stating that they were still waiting for our information. We mailed it again; certified this time. A few months later we received another letter that they had not received our information.

Finally, after faxing them the copy of the signature of the person that had signed for our last package, they admitted they did receive it and we received our tax forms in the mail. We were told to sign them and take them our local IRS offices.

Up to this point, it was only the Federal that had contacted us, but we did as we were told and filed with both the Federal and State. About a month later, letters began arriving from the State IRS. We were receiving them daily. The fines and penalties doubling the tax that we owed.

We made several calls to JK Harris and just like everyone else, were told that our case manager had been switched. We sent all of this State paperwork to the new case manager. Then to our surprise we received a phone call stating that we had not paid them to help us with our State taxes, only with the Federal. If we wanted help with the State, it was going to cost us more money.

At that point, we knew we had been duped and requested a refund. After three emails and over a dozen phone calls, we finally received a letter stating that we would only receive half of what we had paid them and it would take 90-120 days for them to cut a check. We noticed some strange verbage in that letter which basically said that we were agreeing to not talk badly about them as a condition of them sending us a refund check. That one statement spoke volumes.

We signed the paper and sent it certified the following day.

We patiently waited the 120 days before we started calling and emailing. Every phone call was met with a machine and we left messages to please call us back. Almost a week later, we finally received a call. The woman on the phone said our paperwork was "in process" and she couldn't tell us when we would receive our check. When I started to remind her of their letter, she laughed at me and hung up.

I started sending emails. I received a few responses with the same answer, "we don't know when you will receive your check, but thank you for your patience". Our patience has run out and we are now hoping to join some class action suit against them. We were under the impression that by signing that paper for our refund, that we were entering into an agreement or contract of sorts.

We have done everything they asked of us and more, and they have done nothing. If we don't stand up and call them out as frauds, how many more people will they be able to rip off? The amount of complaints and money that they have in effect stolen, must count for something.

Someone please help us.

took $5500 from me an never did anything. tax bill was $92k now it is $200k. need my money back plus damages to pursue paying the IRS. Want to sue but dont know how

took $5500 from me an never did anything. tax bill was $92k now it is $200k. need my money back plus damages to pursue paying the IRS. Want to sue but dont know how

After I made an appointment with this agency I could not google their address. No problem. I had forgotten the information I had written down so on the way to my I appointment I called 411 and asked for their phone number. They were not listed in my town. Then the operator looked under the toll free listings. They were not listed there either. So here is a big company that advertises on the news channel that has an address that doesn't come up on google and a phone number that is not listed. What kind of organization is this? I am so grateful I wasn't able to keep that first appointment.

Fortunately I did not suffer any damages because this company rendered itself invisible to me.

Paid 680.00 deposit @ 241.00 a month and nothing was ever done. They kept asking for paper work kept sending it in only to find out 6 mos later that they contacted the IRS

Garnishment of my wages.

We've paid this company $2000.00 four years a go and the promblem was to help us settle with the IRS. We were in bankupcy and they told us that they could make us pay while we were in bankupcy and they would help us when we get out. We did and ask for their help, it's taken them over four years now and we are still being turned down with the offer of compromise. We have showing many times that we donot have the things they say we do. J.K.Harris knows this and have all the proof. We do not have the money. We believe in J.K.Harris and nothing is being done for us.

We've had three other persons handling our files and the second person realy mess us up. Their ads say they can help you, but we are not getting the help. When I call Angle to talk to her, she is always with other clients. I'm one too, I need her help too. I think this has gone on for far too long. Our money we paid them to help was for nothing.

Angel has the letter that we recieved on Oct.17,2008. I had to Fax it to her again, which cost us money again to send. I'm so afraid of what will be done to us. We just whated to give the IRS a compromise that we could pay. The Settlement Officer is Renee, Department of the Treasury which was given proof that we do not have the things which we told them were gone. J.K. Harris Company was suppose to help us, what can we do? Please Help us.

This has put a toll on our Health.

Paid them $1000.00 up front and $303.00 by bank draft($2100 Paid so far and I stopped draft10-15-10 & they say I still owe them $1079.00. They have never done any thing for me at all.

IRS filed tax lien on me 10-7-08.I have no assets, period and my soc.sec. is $1000.00 a month and I will be losing my house.

I met with an attorney who represented JK HARRIS & Company in Modesto, CA. After indicating to him that we were in tax trouble & were in a possition that would have our wages severly garnished from the IRS & Franchise Tax Board Of California, he calmed me by telling me that they could have all of this stopped if I were to pay a substantial down payment & set up monthly payments to come directly out of our checking account. After our meeting, I submitted the requested information that they requested from the packet that was given to me at the meeting. This information was the tax organizer.

I faxed this information to them on the 2nd & 3rd time. Each time, they told me that they never received it. I then sent it to the via USPS twice & both times, they told me that they never received it. I verify with the representative that the address was accurate & sent again. Finally, I am convinced that they are not who they say they are & have no integrity whats so ever. I then stopped all payments to them from my bank. At that point, I was finally able to received several calls & letters from JKH requesting $810.00 & that our account was put on hold because it was deliquent due to non-payment. I spoke with a representative on 9-12-08 (Chris H) & told him that because we have not received anything from JK Harris, we are cancelling our account with them & wish to have any & all monies payed to them at this point refunded immediately. He told me that I could fax this request to their consumer litigations department & that they would refund me my money after I give them a brief reason of why we wish to cancel our account.

Since then, I continue to recieve letters from them indicating that they have our account on hold due to non payment. My most recent letter from them (Walter Golden Accounting Specialist) dated 9-15-08 (THIRD & FINAL REQUEST) stated that they are placing our account in a Cancellation Pending Status & that if they do not recieve our TAX ORGANIZER within 15 days, they will cancel our IRS Compliance Engagement Agreement & consider ALL monies recieved as earned & non-refundable. HAH! How convenient! They insist on ignoring my request & pretend that they have never received anything from me when infact they received everything from a down payment & all documents requested. This is not right!

Mr Fleury supposed to consolidate my student loans and create one payment. However he convinced me that my current payments were going to thewrong place. He asked me to immediately close my account. When I did that he just disappeared. He never returned my phone calls. He took from me $1000, devastated me with default loans status.

A few months later a guy name Hartwell called me telling me that he is the director of the company and that he knows what happened to me. He asked me to give him a power of attorney over the phone. I asked him to give me my money back, he said he cannot do it. I told him I do not trust his intentions and I do not understand why he wants me to give him a power of attorney. I said do not call me any more if you do not want to return my money.

I was financially and emotionally devastated. I could not fix my loan status for a very long time. I asked my school to help me with making new arrangements.

I saw an Ad on TV and as i was looking for representation regarding IRS Audit, i called, met with a representative in my hometown. I signed up, paid $3000 initially, then $550 per month in 2 payments directly from my account for almost 10 months. After all these months and money, nothing was done, NOT EVEN A SINGLE PHONE TO THE IRS on my behalf!!!! As we speak, the IRS has started garnishment proceedings against me. According to the IRS, I owe over $89,000. I have all deductions/transactions from my account and if there is an action lawsuit going on please let me in. We should not let them get away with THIS!!!

I have a family of six and an extended family of thirteen in Uganda (Africa) who rely on me for almost everything from tuition to medical care. My mother is diabetic and was recently diagnosed with some heart problems, I am currently unable to meet their basic needs. Imagine watching your mother getting weaker and weaker everyday and you can't help, knowing that if someone had done their job you would not be in this predicament! In my culture, its shameful if a man is unable to take care of his elderly as well as his family. My neices and nephews look up to me as they have lost both parents due to HIV, they dont have anyone but me to care for them, now i cant do that as close to 55% of my income is about to be garnished! I need help! Thank you for this site!!!

It has been two years now and cannot get anyone to help from their office. they had taken a deposit, and will not respond to any questions, written or verbal. Do not what to do at this point. They should be put out of business.

Still have pending tax problems, now out more monies trying to retain, J.K.Harris & Company

I've been trying for several years to clear my account with the IRS. I kept seeing tv ads for jk harris & decided to contact them. The First person I spoke with assured me I definitely qualified to submit an offer in compromise which they would prepare & submit for me for a fee which at the moment I do not remember (I seem to be having this problem so I write everything down) They took $500.00 upfront which was the amount I paid to the IRS each month and the balance was taken in payments out of my checking account by a billing service. I gathered all the information they required of me to prepare this offer & after several months of mailin & faxing the same documents over & over I finally received the offer which was $1501 on a bill of over $18,000.

I called & was assured this was within the realm of acceptance for the IRS. The phone calls I made were seldom returned without me calling several times with the samr question. Very frustrating for me as I was already frustrated with my predicament. ms P called me to say They had received a counter offer from the IRS which they never would provide a copy for my file. Never did know what that counter was as the representative was changed at that very time. this new one has spoken with me to tell me that they were preparing a new offer to present my new info which they kept saying they hadn't recived from me but they finally found ( letter from the dr stating that I had been diagnosed with Parkinsons Disease). since I am employed full time as a caregiver I indicated that I don't know how much longer I can work & will then have only my Social Security ($973.00)At the time she called I asked her to come up with a more reasonable offer maybe 7 or 8,000 & she agreed they would. I have never received a call or a document regarding this new offer. i think this back in June 2008.

Now I have received a notice from the IRS that they have placed a lein so it shows on my credit reports- that interest & penalties will continue. I own in joint tenancy which we had intended to sell & can't now so the IRS will not be able to take the proceeds. The IRS has determined that I am in a non collectible status. I do have copies of all my paperwork.I understand there is a class action suit I might be able to join.?4995

ON 11/10/2006 I contacted J. K. Harris in reguards to my back taxes. They were going to help me by deleating a lot of what I owed in back taxes, so they said and for 5000 dollars they could handle it. The amount was quite a lot and I believed what they told me so I jumped for it. I paid J. K. Harris 1000 dollars down and borrowed the rest which totaled another 5100 dollars and I paid it off in five months.

Here it is 09/29/2008 and still nothing has been taken care of. It seems as tho I have done all the work by getting information together and sending it in and calling two and three sometimes four time a week to see what is going on. The IRS levied my Soc. Sec. once and now they are about to do it again as things are not being taken care of as I was told it would be. Meanwhile my tax amount keeps increasing.

So far nothing has been completed and J. K. Harris say they are working on things. What the out come will be I do not know but there is something wrong with this picture. Thank goodness I own nothing but I still have to live and it is on my retirement and Soc. Sec. as I am 65 years old. If I hear nothing soon I may have to go to the IRS my self and see if I can get help from on of their advocates which I shoukld have done at the first place.

I met with the rep from JK Harris in a pretend office, i.e. a room that use in an office in whatever town they are in at the time. He sat there and told me for $2,500 they would make all my back taxes go away. I was leary of his pitch, but was desperate and he was a smooth talker. I did some research and found out that you can get a Tax Advocate from the IRS to help you FOR FREE, so I went that route.

JK Harris keeps calling and bothering me. I am going to turn them into the BBB, as well as other consumer agencies. Their service is nothing but a rip off. SO BEWARE of their smooth advertisements. They do NOTHING but make themselves richer.

I suffer from emotional stress and they keep calling and bothering me. I want to find out where to turn them in so they will stop harrassing me on a daily basis.

I came to JK harris for help and the way it was explained to me, sounded so good that I could not refuse here to find out that the gentelman that I delt with, it was all a lie and I told a lot of friends good things about JK Harris, now I requested a refund and [they] told me could not refund me all of my money but sent me a letter to sign an said would return half,

I still think that is still unfair then the bad part is that I called and they said that we donot know when we will cut you a check that is not a good way of doing buniess. I was never late on a pament and I kept my word and mayed all of my pament on time and with all respect I think that [they] should do the same. Thank you

On their promise they could indeed help us and after they received their payment in full, they did absolutely nothing.I would have to call for 3 or 4 days just to talk to someone and then the IRS agent told us they were not doing anything to help us but it was almost too late.

We were told we were going to lose everything we had.We have to sell our things just to get by. My husband medical problems have also escalated.He is diabetic and because of the stress can't control his blood sugar.

Called JKH to help with taxes. Met at office in Boulder,Co. Started paying 100.00 a month back in April 7th, 2007 with a $500.00 down payment. Balance of $1500.00 total. In December 2007 I needed to pay the IRS so that I can close on my new house. I called JKH and told them what I had to do. They said they would send me a refund minus administrative costs.

March 2008 I recieved this letter from JKH stating my refund. That they will be sending it in 90 to 120 days just sign this letter and send it back. Here it is Sept. 16th, 2008 and everytime I call they give me this number that goes directly to an answering machine. Help!

I originally signed up with JK Harris by meeting with a representative at a local office. He went over all my information and told me that he could get my IRS and FTB debts down to about $7500 each, which as considerably lower than what I owed. I was eager to get this resolved so I signed up with JK Harris. The fee was about $4800 to resolve the tax liability. I had some cash problems, but in July 2007 I paid JK Harris in full.

On July 13, 2007 I received an e-mail from Melissa stating that they had received all my paperwork and a case specialist would be getting in touch with me. Upon speaking to the case specialist a week or so later, he told me he had all the information he needed and he was preparing my offer in compromise. At this time I owed approximately $120,000 to the IRS and approximately $19,000 to the FTB. (Taxes for 2002 thru 2004 had already been paid to the FTB by liens on my home and my bank accounts. JK Harris did nothing to stop the liens!)

I did not receive the offer in compromise from the case specialist and when I called to follow up I was told that he was no longer in the department and the information he gave me was incorrect and I would be assigned a new case specialist. In September 2007 I received a new packet from JK Harris to provide all the information all over again because now the information was outdated. Latasha was assigned as my case specialist.

After months of arguing with this person because she was treating me as though I was the enemy instead of treating me like she was there to help, I have been assigned another case specialist. Now its September 2008 and I finally received my offer in compromise. The offer is to pay the FTB $27,000 lump sum (on a $19,000 debt) and the IRS $21,000 lump sum or $48,000 in payments. My debt to the IRS with interest and penalties has grown to $213,000 because of JK Harris not taking care of this in a timely manner!

In the last year I have lost my home, my job and am deep in debt. I have nothing left. Every time I see a JK Harris commercial, I want to throw up! This company should be put out of business for false advertising! I wish I would have read consumer complaints before I wasted my money!

IRS debt has grown from approximately $120,000 to $213,000 with interest and penalties.

I paid JKHarris a substantial amount of money to handle my problem with the IRS. After a while JKHarris informed me that they could not do anything about my problem with the IRS. I asked for a refund of the money I paid them. They said they would refund $2062.00 of my money back. This was in March of 2008. They said it would take between 90 and 120 days.

In july when the time was up they said it would not be until August 22nd. When August 22nd came, they claimed they could not refund my money at this time, and, that they had no idea when they would be able to return it. I am seeking your help in obtaining my refund from JKHarris tax consultants thank you

Well, I have a 3 months baby on my hand so not much time to describe what JK Harris company done to me. I wish I had seen this page prior to going to them. What I have to say can be said in a few words.

JK Harris company/workers are a bunch of thieves, and instead of helping they make matters worse by taking your money and do then do nothing. I wish there was a way we could get them off the air. Every time I see their commercial it make me so angry that such mess has a right to do what they do to innocent hurting people.

I am still in the same mess I was in, after they took me for my money and did not even make a phone call on my behalf. Someone need to do something to stop these thieves.

I contracted with JK Harris in 7/1/07. I was asked to provide all kinds of information and I did more than once. I was told that once I got compliant that would work out a payment plan with the IRS. I would call and ask when and they would need additional infromation. This went on for a year and out of the clear I was told I have a new Case Specialist and from the fist contact I found the new CS rude and very non-coperative. She wanted everything new. I sent her everything and then I ask her if the IRS would Levy my checking account. I was told as long as JK Harris was in contact with the IRS I had no problem with my bank account.

My bank account was levied and I contact JK Harris and they start telling me that these is unusul and they would jump on this and try to get it lifted. The longer it went the less they wanted to talk about the levy and more talk about doing a settlement, Then they tell me that I need to send in new information and they will set up the payment plan. I still do not have a resolution to these problem and I am still sendilng in new ilnformation.

The IRS levied my bank account for $13,000.00( I took a second job to save this) and my interest and penalty is $30,000 on taxes of $30,000. JK Harris has cost me between $10,000 and $30,000 dollas. They pray on people that are having a hard time and they do not deliver any services.

It's August 2008. Contacted JK Harris in Miami FL March 2007! Tax liability over $200,000. The rep here had no idea what she was doing. After about 2 hours we signed a contract and paid this company $5,500. This is what they did - after one year, Yes one year and 3 case specialists later, they sent correspondence saying that they determined that a payment plan should be set up. I could have done that myself.

It's now August 2008 and I finally got to the SPEAK to the case specialist. She is reviewing the info. She will get back to us. Next year? Two phone calls and waiting and oh BTW do not call twice within a 48 hour period or your calls will be deleted. So disappointed. $5,500 to set up a payment program.

We are out $5,500 and nothing to show except a letter from JK telling us to pay the IRS.

I filed with JK Harris in July of 2007. Nothing happened for a while. I was transferred from one case specialist to the next. I paid the entire $2500.00 they requested. After they reviewed my case, they offered me unreachable deals with the IRS. I asked for a refund and that was in February, 2008. It is August and I still havn't received my refund. Please help me get my refund. They transfer me to voice mail or they will tell me the refund will be sent in 120 days. The date is constantly pushed back from month to month. Please help.

I've lost $2500.00 from JK Harris and they have not sent my refund of $1955.00 yet.

I, and my boyfriend,Mike, signed on with JKHarris in January 2008. They did nothing with our information for months (and in fact are just getting to starting Mike's offer in compromise-7 months later). My case has been transfered 3 times and was recently transfered again without my knowledge. I found out when I tried to email my case specialist and the mail was returned. In the meantime, I have faxed them notices regarding levys on my items for my boyofriend's tax liability. They did nothing with the information and even with consent from us to share information on our cases, my boyfriend's case specialist knew nothing of what was going on (he was just recently transfered again as well).

I get different information from each person I talk to and nothing seems to get done. They have had our cases now for about 8 months and have not even prepared an offer in compromise even though I got them all my information almost immediatly. When we signed on we were told the WHOLE process from start to finish with the IRS takes about 8 months. Here we are 8 months later with nothing done on JKHarris's side.

I left a message with the supervisor and SHE never even called me back. The same for Mike. No supervisor has ever called him back and he's called a few times. I am constantly calling them for information and am on hold for long periods of time. They rarely call me unless it is an emergency such as the IRS is going to seize my equipment in one week if I can't prove otherwise to stop them. Which, in fact, was not true. I had to call the tax advocate myself to find out what was really happening as my case specialist could not explain it to me and in fact admitted she didn't really understand it herself.

When they do call me it is on the end of the day on Friday so I cannot have time to take care of anything till the following week. My case specialist kept telling me she was going to do things and nothing seems to get done. She tells me she will have someone call me who can explain things better to me but no one calls me back. She says she will absolutely have my offer done by Friday and it never is. Always some excuse.

They do not have any lawyers in their firm for cases like mine. I feel as if they were completely misleading in their advertising and that I have done most of the work, they haven't done much. They have not lifted any burden from me and, in fact, things seem to be getting worse. I hired them to represent me and they really haven't come through on their end. They were incredibly misleading in their advertising and the ability to take on my case and my boyfriends.

When talking to one person on a team she might tell you one thing and then a few minutes later talking to another she might tell you the opposite. For example, I called about the seizure of my excavator. My case specialist had previously said it was going to be seized by the IRS in one week. This woman, on my team, said the IRS doesn't really seize equipment and mine was not going to be seized. Upon my request for her to check into that she found out she was wrong. However, had I not pressed her to check I would have been misled that my equipment was safe. I filed a complaint with the better business bureau and they never responded.

I am in jeopardy of losing my equipment, house and the IRS is levying my wages. I have 4 kids to support on my own. The IRS has put leins on everything I own and levied my bank account and wages. I'm not sure how much worse it could get but I'm sure it can. Now the IRS agent in Brattleboro, where I live, wants to meet with me personally to discuss paying my tax liability. I hired them to do this, not me.

My husband and I hired JK Harris for help with back taxes. Due to serious illness for the past few years, taxes fell behind. After seeing promising commercials on CNN, we felt they were a safe company. Our initial representative, David Stube, made us feel very comfortable. He reassured us that HE would be taking care of everything, how reachable he was, and offering that he would even meet with us in the evenings on his way in town from other appointments. We signed on the dotted line and scraped up $1000. Heck my tumor and treatment could wait, the IRS was calling. We were given a very vague packet and asked to fill this out.

Two weeks later another packet arrived requiring more information and also a NEW CASE SPECIALIST located in South Carolina. I tried to call and always got voice mail or the "main voice mail". One a person answered and I think it was by mistake because when they heard my voice they seemed alarmed and quickly said, "hold please". I sent numerous emails to Tremaine Grate (case specialist) but no reply. I even gave deadlines and specific times. I then received a letter from the IRS, four months after I gave my 1K to them and they never even contacted the IRS on our behalf as promised. Yep, its the same old song and dance as listed in all of these other stories.

I called the JK toll free number and left the most creative messages I could on every single voice mail that I could have access to. They even have an educational department. Wonder why, but I left them a message too. Funny, I started receiving calls in just a few minutes from folks is Charleston. (Not my local consultant or case specialist please note) I found out how to sever ties with this shady business. Email at : pro@jkharris.com also fax the email attention ROD to 877-. I hope this saves someone else the hours I spent on hold.

I suffered economic loss of $1000 that I was supposed to use for health care as I have a tumor and other severe medical issues that need attention. We use our extra money for medical costs but need to work to pay hospital bills; and out of fear of having our wages levied turned to JK Harris in good faith. It has been extremely stressful and shameful.

Had I not been sick I would have paid the IRS but unfortunately, I kind of would like to stick around a while. Thank you. Please stay away from this company if you are thinking its the way out, it is not. Hire an attorney that is local. JK Harris is just another way to more financial trouble and stress.

I thought I was doing the right when I contacted JK HARRIS to help me in Jan-2007. WRONG!!! This company should be put out of business.Two Thuosand One Hundred dollars later,nothing.My (case specialist)was a joke.She would not return my calls or e-mails.I would call and then be put on hold for maybe a hour or longer.Then I would hang up and call back only to told it was after hours.

The story these people have amaze me.Lost paper work,not in at this time,everything you can think of.On February 26-2008 I made a request for a refund by e-mail.Two months later there response was that I payed $1542.80,should of known! Well then they said I would get a refund of $948.00,where is the other $1152.00 I payed?So I contacted them in June and they said my check whould be here by July 4.Called back July 8 they said my check would be here July 18.Again called July 22, this time a check whould be here by Sept 12.What a run around.

I have names and dates of all the contacts with JK Harris.I know of at least 40 or more calls,most of the time to be put on hold.There is a lot more that I can and will say about this company.I'm just a hard working man that needed some help.

I hired JK Harris in June 2003 and paid them $2900.00 to settle tax problems I had with the IRS and NC Dept of Revenue. I was strung along until October 2005 I received garnisment letters from the NC Dept of Revenue. All they do is send you Power of Attorney forms and financial statement forms, the same forms the IRS would send you if you called them yourself! And that's the message....All JK Harris and all of those other so called "tax saviors" do is milk you out of your own hard earned money. Did you hear that? THEY DO NOTHING! YOU, THAT'S RIGHT, YOU CAN TAKE CARE OF THE PROBLEMS YOURSELF. The consequences I suffered are huge. My IRS tax debt is now over $60,000 and the NC Dept of Revenue has collected $15,000++ on an otiginal tax debt of approximately $9,000 and they still want another $8,000! JK Harris did nothing but did the hole deeper!

My husband and I had had some serious financial problems as well as family sickness. Our accountant told us about J. K. Harris who would work with the IRS on behalf of our back taxes. We met with a J. K. Harris rep. and he told us everything that would take place. (Right!) We paid about $2500 to this firm and they never did a thing! We told them that the IRS was about to levy on us and put a lien on our property. They said that they would get to that right away.

Each time I called to see what had taken place, I was et with a new advocate and had to go through the same details again. We had over seven advocates during the three or four years we worked with the, but they did absolutely nothing. When I called them, it was either a new advocate or a recorded message. Of course noone ever returned my calls. The IRS levied on our social security to tune of almost 500.00 monthly and we still have not been abe to clear up backtaxes due to accumulating inteest and penalities.

When we contacted the IRS and informed them that J. K. Harris was negotiating for us, they checked our files and said they had nothing in our records indicating that they had ever contacted them on our behalf! I could not believe that! When we received a letter inquiring if we would like to join in a class action suit against J.k.HARRIS, we IMMEDIATELY returned the letter indicating our desire to enter into the suit.

This year we received a from the IRS stating that J.K.Harris had informd them hat they would no longer be representing us. How could this be when the IRS said there was nothing in our files from JKHarris indicating that they were ever working on our case! What is this! They never said anything about returning our money, although we have asked about a refund several times. We also have heard nothing else about the class action suit. We don't know what to do and we need our money in order to help pay our back taxes. .

I have suffered mentally and this has caused a lot of stress on our marriage and also on our lives a we are in our sixties and seventies. Both of us have seen a severe rise in our blood pressure and I, as the wife, fear that I will not be able to continue assisting my daughter and her children, all of whom suffer with either a debilitating sickness or some kind of disability. If there is anybody who can help us, please contact us.

i was defrauded out of 8,050.00, and [their] office has done NOTHING, so now i will post our consumer affair is just like bbb, attorney general they are not for the people, they take the side of the companys that has money to pay thier way out of it,

I hired jk harris to resolve my tax problem back in April 2007.I owed 11,800.00 I paid them upfront $2000.00 to act on my behalf and help resolve my IRS problems. I had an IRS levy on my bank account and was unable to do any banking. Both on personal and business levels. After a month both accounts still had levy's and nothing was resolved. I took matters in my own hands and negotiated on my own behalf.Things were resolved in 1 day! Jk Harris did absolutely nothing! the only thing they did was cash my deposit check.

After that I requested a deposit refund of my $2000.00. The response I got it takes 90 to 120 days to investigate my request. Well after dozens of phone calls and pure frustration from incompetant employees. I finally received a waiver form in January 2008 entitling me to a $1500.00 refund. Apparently when you sign the power of attorney contract there's a 25% nonrefundable deposit fee charge. Anyway, and how surprising it takes another 120 days for your refund check to be issued. And charges should be brought up against them for misrepresentation charges.

It's now July 20, 2008 Over a year since I hired them and more so requested my deposit refund. No Refund I keep calling And get put through to voice mail stating this is a long and tetius process which could take sometime. They can spend Millions of dollars every year on false T.V. ads but a refund check don't have the money.

We contacted J K Harris on 5/22/08 to help us resolve a tax issue. The consultant Tibor talked to us and told us they could get us a resolution in compromise for $1500 (we owe $62,000). We explicitly conveyed that we wanted to work with a local company so that we had access to a person one on one. He assured us they were local. He said their fee was $4000 flat no matter what they had to do.

We told him we would have to take out a loan against a 401K in order to pay this. We also made it clear that once we took out that loan we couldn't get another one until it was paid back so if he thought it would be more than the $1500 to settle he should tell us before the loan was taken out. He assured us that it shouldn't go over that. He said we could post date a check for 30 days from then. We knew it may run a little over 30 days to get the money and advised him of that. He said that was ok, just to call them and let them know when they could cash the check but be sure to call before the check date. We agreed.

The money did not clear our bank until 6/25 and we did call and advise them to hold the check until 6/26. They agreed and the money was taken out of our account exactly on that day. Within a week of speaking to Tibor we received a call from Lauren in Charleston, SC saying she was our account rep. and that she had file a power of attorney to deal with the IRS on our behalf. When asked why we had to deal with her when we were told we would have a local rep she told us that their main office in Charleston was the only place that handled these issues. She kind of poo pooed it when told that Tibor had told of it would be handled here.

She said she would be sending out some forms for us to fill out regarding our financial situation and when she received them back she would be able to assess our situation better and move on from there. She said she would file a 90 day stay of collection so we wouldn't get garnished until we had the forms back to her.

We never received any forms and when my husband called her again she said they had been sent out on 6/19. I sent her an email stating that we had never received them and could she please mail again or send to my email. I never got a response. My husband has sent her email after email and called to leave messages and never gets a response to either. Today, 7/17, he called and the receptionist told him their system was down and she couldn't transfer any calls. Ever since they cashed our check we have not been able to talk to them in any way. We are afraid they are just scamming us and are seriously thinking of getting an attorney.

We are afraid that we have lost the $4000 that we paid. Also, that we have now exhausted our loan potential on the 401K account so can't borrow any more to pay another company to represent us or to pay any portion of the taxes due ($62,000).

I am very unsatisfied with my results , I had a business and was doing very well but in construction good workers are far in between. so i closed my buisness and had a cpa that had my records screwed up. so on but anyway to make long story short I called Jk harris to settle my claim I owed $5000.00 penialtys and intrest its $15000.00 so i payed up front 400.00 and paying 383.27 1st of every month plus 275.00 garnishment from my check twice a month.

they promised me they would remove the garnishment and thats been 6 months ago. Now they want me to try to get a loan from 2 banks to pay my debt.and i have been through 3 advisors and a represenitive. so thts my delima if you have any advise please do tell. Thanks Reggie in La.

I still have no answers i am probaly will get alone and pay it off and probly have to take jk harris to court for a refund , And My sons in Iraq fighting For our freedom and my family has to deal with this worries.