Complaint Review: Tax Defense Network

Josh Bartel was the case manager I had. He kept constant contact with me always stating "everything is moving forward to a positive resolution you will be satisfied with". One month before my last payment (I paid as agreed), he congradulated me saying "Congradulations, we have a resolution. Check your inbox."

When I check my inbox, I actually gasped. The tax debt went from $65K to $99.8K. The IRS said I made $461K in 2009, my job was installing "TV, Phone, & Internet service". I lost my job of 23 years as an engineer. I was on the verge of bankruptcy, and was losing my house to foreclosure. I was making less than a fifth of what I use to make, my mortgage was more than my monthly income.

I called Josh back, he continued to congradulate me. After a couple of hours of trying to get an explaianation, the customer service reps would send my calls to his voice mail. They eventually called me back when I refused to give them the last payment. They refered me their "Gold Standard Team" or something of that nature, even then it was only a ploy to retrieve the final payment. I never agreed to the terms, nor signed any other documents including a new power of attorney, or pay authorization, but Josh filed the unsigned agreement with the IRS anyway. As of May 2015, I'm still dealing with this issue.

By the way, I paid $5600.00 for this brutal hosing.