Complaint Review: Instant Tax Service - Fesum "Fez" Ogbazion - Dayton Ohio

Yes, ITS will employ you and not pay you. Or pay you cash and not submit the taxes. I worked for them and funds were not available when I went to cash my check. Also, one tax season I was paid less than the previous season (they said expenses were to high) so they paid less. You are correct when you say they dont do background checks and will hire ANYBODY. Any fool crazy enough to work ALL day, 7 days a week. Then they try to convince you that the weekly salary is a GOOD THING. But when you do the math you are making less than min wage. I was usually there 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, and 8 hours Saturday and 5 on Sunday (during peak). Fez is Ethopian not Nigerian. I don't know how much he 'KNOWS' about tax preparation. You don't have to be a CPA,Tax Attorney or EA to own a tax business. Really its the rule of reinventing yourself. He hires people that usually know ENOUGH about BASIC tax theory and their target market appears to be anyone qualified for EIC. How simple is that. Line 7 of the 1040 (A), minus deductions, times your tax rate. Then add the federal withholding to the EIC amount and BINGO clients are HAPPY. Most didnt care how much it cost them, they just wanted their money--RIGHT THEN AND THERE. If he is wrong he will have to answer to any wrong doing.

I am Joyce, the ex-employee who started section. Please, read Business Week Magazine April 2, 2009 article "Boom For Tax Prep" (just type in Instant Tax on search). Article has 3 paragraphs about IRS investigating Instant Tax. referring to Fez-president as Nigerian. Several people have contacted me through Ripe-Off and we are going to sue in Arizona for federal nationwide abusive practices on employees and possible franchisees. There is one franchisee suit currently in Maryland federal court. When this tax season ends and the employees are not paid what they were contracted to be paid---hourly plus bonus (around country no employees get the bonus in amount promised if they get any bonus----in particuliar ITS pays off in cash with settlement agreements that say "no joining suit"---those settlement are bogus). If you worked for Instant Tax and got paid in cash--you had your withholding stolen, you credit for working for 3.5 month stolen, so you got no stimulus payment, and you got no unemployment benefits at end of season (which H& R Block employees claim). Please, contact me if your pay was below what you were contracted to get and you got no w-2 or 1099. Also, most franchisees never get the right amount from Instant Tax? It has happened all over the United States. Please e-mail me through this web site----all the people that Instant tax has abused need to work together. The Attorney General of Arizona is still investigating Instant Tax so anyone who makes comments on this website is adding to growing out cry about Instant Tax abusive process (I keep sending these comments to AG). In particular, IT still advertises that you need no knowledge of tax prep to open an Instant Tax franchisee. The 2008 tax stimulus plan has a provision for requiring licensing of all paid tax preparers by 2010, so every non-trained tax person with an Instant Tax Franchise could have wasted their money and time building up their franchise in 2010---unless they are getting licensed like H&R Block requires of their managers. Instant Tax is taking more money from the tax payers than other services---proven by the fact that Instant Tax uses Drake processing which has 3 levels of possible preprogrammed fees---Instant Tax uses the highest cost on Drake and then adds more charges. Instant tax is still just hiring anyone who speaks Spanish in Arizona and not investigating their possible past criminal record.

ITS Financial, LLC d/b/a Instant Tax Service (ITS) would like to issue the following statement in response to the false and defamatory post listed by Joyce Good Samaritan (Joyce) in Phoenix, Arizona: ITS is a franchised company with nearly 1,200 locations nationwide. While ITS vigorously denies the false and defamatory statements made by Joyce against ITS, it is very important to understand the difference between corporate stores, which are wholly owned by TCA Financial LLC (TCA), and the company's franchised stores, which are run by franchisees through separate business entities, which have been granted an Instant Tax Service franchise. Neither ITS or TCA owned or operated any corporate stores in Arizona during this past tax season. Therefore, the allegations contained herein allegedly concern franchised locations. Having said that, in defense of any franchised locations in Arizona, I encourage any prospective franchisee or consumer who may have concerns related to Joyce's posting to consider the following facts: Joyce claims to be a retired California attorney. To the best of our knowledge, that is false. An ITS representative recently visited www.calbar.ca.gov in order to conduct an attorney search on Joyce, as the company is in possession of her full name. According to the California state bar records, Joyce was never an active member of the bar association. ITS is hesitant to release Joyce's full name here due to potential privacy issues. However, assuming Joyce has nothing to hide, then ITS would certainly welcome a rebuttal from Joyce, which lists her full name, bar number, and prior areas of legal practice. Next, Joyce suggests that the Attorney General of Arizona weighed in and ITS closed all offices in Arizona by March 15, 2008. While Joyce may have filed a complaint, to the best of our knowledge, these false accusations were never investigated and no Instant Tax Service offices were shut down by the AG's office. Once again, please feel free to contact the Arizona AG's office at (800) 352-8431 to make your own personal inquiry into this false accusation. Furthermore, Joyce falsely claims that ITS is a conspiracy to defraud run by the president Fez' who is Nigerianhe knows nothing about doing taxes. To the contrary, the CEO of ITS, Mr. Fezum Ogbazion, is in fact, not Nigerian and has been preparing taxes and operating tax preparation businesses in the United States for over 15 years. Mr. Ogbazion apparently knows something about taxes because, according to the February 2008 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine, ITS was ranked the top new franchise in America. If you are interested in reading that article, it can be found at www.entrepreneur.com/franchises/topnew/index.html Perhaps, the true reason for Joyce's post along with the other false and defamatory statements that she has made through various email communications to ITS and multiple internet forums, has to do with the fact that she is trying to solicit money from ITS. In an email from Joyce sent to ITS on February 11, 2008, she wrote, I spent the whole weekend in ASU legal library tightening up my RICO argument --- or I shut up for $100,000.00 deposited into my checking account and not until then. We believe that this final statement speaks for itself.

Look up Maricopa County Court. This guy was in refinance before, with several judgements against him. I know someone that he owes money to. I hope Joyce follows through, as Identity theft is a horrible crime, and should not be tolerated.

This guy has had nothing but judgements on him. It appears that he has nothing but a cycle of ripping people off according to the arizona superior court. Buyer be ware!

This guy has had nothing but judgements on him. It appears that he has nothing but a cycle of ripping people off according to the arizona superior court. Buyer be ware!

This guy has had nothing but judgements on him. It appears that he has nothing but a cycle of ripping people off according to the arizona superior court. Buyer be ware!