Suing Tax Preparer?

Question

We are wanting to sue our tax preparer. What kind of attorney would we contact to do this?

This person/s are in the process of the Dept of Justice trying to put an injunction on them & their so-called "company". The gov't says they scam their clients. They even shut down their website in 2000, which I wish I would have known 7 years ago. The IRS has been scammed out of millions of $$ in refunds and we are only one out of 68 people who have been audited because of this person/s. They have done thousands of tax returns for people all over the US since 1998. The IRS has been investigating them since 2002 and they have continued to do taxes and not telling their clients. When I confronted them with this they merely said, "It was a conspiracy against them by the IRS" & that "the IRS was out to get them." They even used someone else's tax #. She has told her clients that they can deduct business expenses when they can't. She even went so far as to say that you could deduct hobbies. They knew what they were doing & they did it anyway. I didn't find this all out until the audit.

Oh and our audit is over. We tried everything. We owe $11,000 + interest, b/c of them, not including a year of auditing nightmares. With 3 small kids we couldn't hope to pay this right away. We just don't know what else to do. It makes me mad to think they are still doing this to other people like us, and they are getting away with it.

Answer 1

If you're going to sue for damages, then you will be limited to the tax preparation fees. You can't sue for deductions or incomes that you incurred during the year. Those are your fault.

If I were you, I would let it go. If they did a bad job, prove it to them in person, get your money back, and save the attorney fees.

(Besides, April 15 hasn't arrived yet, and you still have time to correct the problem.)

Answer 2

A Tax Attorney?

Answer 3

Tax attorneys are very expensive and not a good idea just for this. Use an attorney who knows something about taxes and has sued people for errors and omissions.

Answer 4

if your tax refund replaced into despatched to her economic company account and he or she saved all of it, not merely her fee, then you definately can probable sue for that. the bigger project which you do not seem to appreciate is that accuracy is the accountability of the guy whose taxes are being filed. in case you have somebody else practice your taxes, then you definately might desire to examine what that guy or woman prepares and notice no count number if it particularly is authentic or fake earlier the guy documents it. in case you do not try this, then you definately are in charge for the fake assistance, and can be despatched to detention center.

Answer 5

That depends upon why you're suing for the most part.