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Charles McGriff

Denver, CO

Valley Stream, NY
September 24, 2024

I hired Charles McGriff on April 8th, 2024 after he called me and made me aware that I had a pending levy on me. I owe IRS back taxed from 2019 to 2021 and it is a large amount. He told me what he could do to help me, gave me a price of $5,000 then later that day changed it to $5,575 and said he could have the levy held and work out a payment agreement with them before they can enforce it. Weeks are going by I think he's working on it and I called the IRS agent in charge of my case to find out what's going on and she said she have no one on record to be my power of attorney in which I send and signed the form and returned it to him with the payment the next day with a $3,000 deposit. I paid the balance 2 weeks later. I contact him right away and he's saying that he sent them the info and he never did. We are going back and forth with him saying he's sent over everything, and I'm check with the IRS agent and she never heard from him. Now May 28th come around a month and a half later and my bank accounts are frozen, and they took the $13,000 that was in my accounts at the time which left me in financial ruin. I contact him and he's now saying he's going to the courts to do an appeal and he would've never had to do any of that if he was in contact with the IRS agent and sending her what she needed so we can negotiate a payment plan in the first place. I end up putting in the appeals for myself and dealing with the IRS agent myself and still she doesn't have any record of power of attorney from him on my behalf because he had no intentions of working on my case, he just wanted the money, and he did nothing. Now I can't afford to pay a real tax company to help me because he got paid for nothing, and they took my money I had left in my accounts. Charles Mcgriff has numerous other clients on this website complaining that he's ripped them off just like myself and I'm just finding out this about a month ago he needs to me investigated.