| Many tax relief companies brag about their staff | | | | I can assure you that after working for the IRS they |
| chock full of former IRS agents. At first glance, the | | | | have become insensitive to you not only as a client but |
| concept seems good. Let's examine the reasons | | | | also as a human being. The IRS taught them to refer |
| people assume former IRS agents would be helpful | | | | to you as "the taxpayer" or a "taxpaying entity". IRS |
| and then determine if they carry any real value for a | | | | employees hold delinquent taxpayers in contempt for |
| person with tax debt problems. | | | | 20 years, that doesn't change when the early |
| Former IRS agents have an "inside connection" | | | | retirement starts and the Enrolled Agent sign goes up. |
| The implication of "knowing someone inside" is a hoax. | | | | When was the last time you spoke to a bureaucrat |
| The IRS has over 150,000 employees, no one has an | | | | who cared? Do you think a sensitive person could |
| "inside connection" with 150,000 people. If you call the | | | | seize your paycheck and bank account and then |
| IRS 10 times, you'll get 10 different people in 10 different | | | | auction your home after leaving you penniless? |
| States. If someone did have an "inside connection" the | | | | The Story of One Former IRS Agent Company: |
| IRS has a built in checking system to stop all special | | | | The JK Harris website states that they are the |
| deals. | | | | "Nation's largest tax representation firm, comprised of |
| Former IRS Agents have a "special knowledge" or | | | | veteran ex-IRS agents." The following excerpts from a |
| "know the system" | | | | June 2008 article by the Boston Globe are quite |
| Everyday our lawyers tell IRS agents how their own | | | | enlightening: |
| system works. Everyday we make them look in their | | | | "A Charleston firm that claimed to offer people help |
| own books to follow the laws Congress has laid | | | | settling their tax debt has agreed to pay $1.5 million in |
| before them. Everyday IRS agents make up the rules | | | | restitution under a settlement with attorneys general in |
| as they go, until we catch them and force them to | | | | 18 states, officials announced Thursday. Attorney |
| follow the real rules. This happens everyday. Retiring | | | | General Martha Coakley of Massachusetts and 17 |
| from the IRS doesn't suddenly wake up agents up to | | | | other state attorneys general entered into a consent |
| the law. Recently, an agent told us she does not | | | | judgment with JK Harris. |
| accept faxes. Well we've been sending faxes for ten | | | | Attorney General Coakley stated: |
| years, much to her dismay. Finally, we got her boss to | | | | "This company took advantage of people who paid |
| help her "find" the fax machine. She had only been | | | | for tax assistance and, in some instances, profited by |
| working there for 17 years, how could she be | | | | taking their money and not giving them any help at all," |
| expected to know where the fax was or to walk the | | | | "Taking their money and not giving them any help at all" |
| 12 steps to it. The scary news; three years from now | | | | - that sounds like a typical government job to me and |
| she can promote herself as the taxpayers good | | | | if you worked as an IRS employee, that sounds like |
| buddy. | | | | another day at the office. |
| Former IRS Agents are sensitive to your problem | | | | |