I have taken my taxes to a guy to have it done. It has been nearly 3 months and he says its not arrived yet?

Question

I have taken my taxes to him, and he has been saying for about 3 months that it would be next week before I received it. I have called atleast once every week since and he said the same "next week". He has recently stopped answering his phone and not returning my voicemail calls, when I contact the goverment they say no information is in the system and now it is past the deadline so I would be charged a penalty but he told me it was filed BEFORE I called them. Although I haven't paid him yet, he has told me he has filed it in January now it is April..Could legal action be taken against him if I am indeed charged a penalty?

Answer 1

Sounds like you are involved with a really dishonest guy. He would have had to have your signature to have filed them, so apparently he didn't. And if he had, there would have been no reason he couldn't give you your copy. Have you tried just showing up at his place of business? Or is it closed?

I'd call the IRS and ask them how to proceed with filing your return

Legal action might be able to be taken if you can find him.

Good luck.

Answer 2

Legal action? Good luck with that. You should have figured out after the first couple of weeks that something no good was up and taken your information to someone else. As you approached late March, didn't you begin to wonder that something was way wrong with this situation?

You only have yourself to blame. And yes, you will be facing penalties for late filing and interest and possible penalties for late payment if any tax is due with the return.

Get your records together and take them to someone else and get moving on this!

Answer 3

when you signed the tax forms and dated it you should have immediately received a copy from your tax agent. That's how you would prove that it was done. If you have all your info there at home with you submit another copy from you doing it yourself, or take it to another agent and have them to it for you and submit a letter along with it to the IRS saying you did do your taxes thru (and name the agent) but that you have not heard from him and now he has stopped answering your phone calls when you try to prompt him. Send that to the IRS certified mail return receipt to make sure they get it. The important part is that you get your tax info to the IRS. (be sure you sign and date it and make a copy of it for yourself when you send your taxes to the IRS. Ok, so you pay a penalty. If it is a humungeous sum then sue your first tax agent. If it is a small amount then just pay it and forget about that guy (it will take you a lot of money to sue that guy plus a lot of effort...just consider it a lesson learned). If then in the meantime this first agent does provide you a copy of what he did then surely it will have an old date on it and with that you can prove to the IRS you did do your taxes early. But if that paperwork is never filed by that guy or a copy given to you, then chalk it up to experience.

I hope you have the duplicate documentation that you provided to that first guy. If not then you'd best start ASAP in pulling that info together again so that you can file your taxes by yourself (or another agent).