Help: Terrible Experience with Tax “professional” I met here

[Mitch Polatin]

Any help is appreciated. I met a tax person on this site. And we had a terrible experience. I dont know if I’m allowed to name the individual? I just didn’t want anyone else to get played. I’m also filing a complaint with the State of Florida.

Major issues

-unresponsive once we paid the down payment

-quoted a price

-months later got a bill that was more than double. More than $1,200 more than anticipated.

-I wrote him that I would’ve appreciated some notice, as with any business I appreciate some notice if my price is going to double.

-zero transparency other than “it was more work than I thought.”

-I never threatened not to pay, and said I would, I just wanted some explanation or itemization on costs.

-this is one of the worst parts, he then sent an email just to my wife, saying we had to do one more thing, but he wouldn’t do it until we paid him in full. So my wife assumed I had chatted with him and paid him in full. And then after we paid, he said based on our attitude he doesn’t want to help us anymore and won’t finish or tax documents for us.

Should I warn people? He was predatory in this site and scammed us.

Thanks!

I guess you learn and move on. Any advice is appreciated.