I met with Mitchell Corn in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on 1/15/2015. Mitchell Corn represents Wall & Associates, 608 South Main Street, Blacksburg, VA. I signed an agreement to pay $5,000.00 initially and to pay $500.00 each month until my tax problem with the IRS and State of South Carolina for tax years 2013-2015 was settled. April 22, 2015 I sent an e-mail to Mandy Gallimore (my representative in Virginia at Wall & Associates) that IRS was going to take away $3,101.00 which was my tax refund for 2014 and asked for her help to stop that. Nothing was done but the IRS did seize the $3,101.00. This began my suspicion that Wall & Associates were doing nothing on my behalf. I requested a statement from Wall & Associates as to what they have done and when they did it of actions on my behalf. I received a letter from Alexandria Weber that on April 27, 2015 they sent a Notice CP 504 and IRS Form 433-A making a formal request to the IRS to place be placed as non-collectible. Since I initiated this agreement with Wall & Associates 1/15/2015 and they did nothing until April 27, 2015. I sought help from a local attorney. His assessment was Wall & Associates is nothing but a sham and will do nothing on my behalf. I terminated my agreement with Wall & Associates July 16, 2015. I have spent $7,500.00 with Wall & Associates and I feel duped. I plan to call the Virginia and South Carolina Attornies General to report this. I will also report it to the Better Business Bureaus.
My name is Angelique Pierce and unfortunately I have become the victim of the shady practices of Wall & Associates, a company I hired to help me resolve some tax matters. In 2013, I had a baby girl and my family was in a very tight financial situation. When my maternity leave ended in June 2013, I came to the conclusion that I was simply not ready to put my 6-week old baby into daycare and, as a result, I made the very difficult decision to go down to one income in my household (mine) in order to keep her at home. I figured that the only way I could meet my bills and family needs was for me to stop paying taxes (state and federal taxes) for a period of time. I did this for many months and, eventually I was forced to address the issue because the 2013 tax season came around. I had to make monthly payment agreements with the state of NC (the state I live in) for $200 per month (on a balance of about $1,600) and the IRS for $220 per month (on a balance of about $12,500). I had agreements in place with both taxing authorities but nothing yet in place with SC (the state I work in).
Eventually the state of SC wanted their money too (approximately $4,500) and they wanted it by September 30, 2014 or they threatened to take action (levy, garnishment, etc.). On or about, September 24, 2014, I went to the SC Department of Revenue office to see what arrangement I could make to pay down my tax balance. The representative stated the lowest payment they would offer was $378 per month for 12 months. I couldn’t see any way that I could add that much to my monthly expenses and still care for my family. I knew I had a big problem brewing because September 30 was just days away and I had no plan. I left the office without making any payment arrangement and came with up an idea to see if I could get some quick help from a tax attorney. This is where Wall & Associates came into the scene. Unfortunately, reaching out to this company for help was a HUGE mistake!
I met with John Robeson of Wall & Associates on September 25, 2014 in Charlotte to discuss my situation. During that conversation, I was made to feel that I was speaking to a tax attorney from an experienced tax firm. John told me that the first problem is that I am being double-taxed by the NC and SC and that I should not have ever been paying taxes in SC. He also talked about his company’s high success rate of being able to cut his client’s tax debts down to about 10% of the balance and how they use a tactic called an “Offer in Compromise” to get the job done. I was really on the fence because John told me that it would cost me $4,000 to even retain his company to take on my case (again, giving the perception of hiring an attorney), and then I would have to pay $400 per month for them to continue to work the case until final resolution. That was just money I did not have. I could feel myself becoming emotional because I couldn’t pay his retainer fee (I only had about $1,000 in my bank account) but I needed immediate help, especially with SC. So John continued to pitch me – he even retrieved a company email in his computer (which he claimed was confidential) that was supposedly proof of his company’s success rate. The email contained client info - stats from the prior week - and he turned his screen toward me as a way of proving that they would surely have success in my case as well. To seal the deal, he reminded me of how urgent the timing was with SC and even did this quick calculation to prove to me how making monthly payments to the taxing authorities will never get me anywhere. He also talked about the tactics that the IRS can use to collect their money – sending an agent to your home to see what assets you have that they can seize, taking the money in your 401k, etc. Then he offered to drop the retainer to $3,000 if I signed agreement that day. So I contacted my mother to see if she could help me in any way and, as awesome mothers do, she saved the day and loaned me the additional $2,000, but I couldn’t get it from her until the next day because she had to borrow it from her credit union.
So John’s solution was for me to pay the $1,000 immediately (September 25, 2014) and that would get them working on securing the Power of Attorney with each of the three taxing authorities and then I would pay the other $2,000 the next day. The deal was sealed and the agreement was for Wall & Associates to represent me “before the taxing authorities for personal income tax for the tax years 2008 – 2014 Federal / NC DOR / SC DOR” as stated in the contract. After I paid the $2,000 on September 26, 2014, I asked John what I was supposed to do with the payment agreements I had in place with NC and the IRS. He directly and firmly told me not to make any more payments to them.
Let me now get to the crux of this situation….
A case team was assigned to me (Ashley Jarrells, Brandon Groseclose, Brittany Stanley, and Christie Craft) and I was contacted by Ashley quickly after I made my payment. That is what initially made me feel that I was in good hands. Ashley was my original point of contact who I found it very difficult to communicate with from the very beginning. I kept trying to get clarity from her about the work that was being done and going to be done. She assured me that the POAs were filed, that they have already been in contact with the department of revenue for both NC and SC, and that they were negotiating my case with them. But I soon fell out of love with the team members because, while I waited for follow-ups from them (believing that my hard-earned money was being put to good use), I learned that it wasn’t.
On or about November 4, 2014 I received a notice via mail from the state of SC which clearly showed they were going to garnish my wages for 25% of every paycheck until they received their full balance. How in the world could that be when I paid Wall & Associates to avoid this very thing and they claimed they were in contact with them??? I immediately contacted my case team via phone and spoke to Ashley. I was furious and wanted a clear explanation of how this could be allowed to happen to me when I hired them to help me avoid these very issues. She did not do a great job at explaining the situation which caused me to ask more questions. I was so frustrated that I wanted exact details of when SC was called and when the SC POA was put in place. Ashley looked in her system and, to my surprise and great dismay I learned that, although I signed my agreement with Wall & Associates on September 25, 2014, my case team member (Brandon) did not make contact with the SC until around October 10, 2014. That, in and of itself, lets me know that my case was being mishandled from the very beginning. I told Ashley that I no longer wanted to speak with her and I wanted to speak directly to Brandon.
When Brandon called me, he tried to make me feel that he was doing everything he could to help. I asked Brandon who his contacts were at the SC DOR. I was appalled when I learned that all Wall & Associates does is call the same 800 number I could call and wait on hold like the rest of us and hope that they can get someone to listen to him about my case. So I told him that he was doing nothing more than I would do. He combated that by stating that they know certain tactics and how to work around the laws... blah, blah, blah. Brandon requested that I send him copies of the SC garnishment notice. At the time, I was traveling for work and had just arrived in my destination city, and I wasn’t able to get to a fax machine or a scanner. So I took pictures of the individual pages using my cell phone and emailed them to him on November 5, 2014. I didn’t get any response from Brandon about the images, but I received the following email from him on November 6, 2014:
My wife and I hired Wall & Associates in September 2013 to help in reducing tax debts and penalties the IRS had put on us for 4 years worth of audits. Prior to hiring Wall & Associates I had negotiated a payment plan with the IRS.
We paid a ""Retainer"" fee to Wall & Associates of $3750, and a monthly payment of $400. They were of NO assistance to us whatsoever! Claimed we made too much money to ask for penalties to be abated. After 5 months I received a letter from the IRS saying that they could not give information to Wall & Associates because THEY had failed to sign the power of attorney papers, so for 5 months (while I was paying them) they apparently had NO communication with the IRS.
In April 2014 I sent them notice that unless they give me a complete breakdown of the work that had been put in on my case that we would terminate the contract. They failed to do so and I sent a termination letter to them at the end of April. Since then, the phone is ringing off the hook trying to get me to call them back. I refuse!
Beware these schisters and do not use them or give them any money! If there is an attorney out there filing a class action lawsuit, count me in!! I'd love to take these b******** to the cleaners!! Contact me through Ripoff Reports.
Wall & Associates, Inc. Reviews
I met with Mitchell Corn in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on 1/15/2015. Mitchell Corn represents Wall & Associates, 608 South Main Street, Blacksburg, VA. I signed an agreement to pay $5,000.00 initially and to pay $500.00 each month until my tax problem with the IRS and State of South Carolina for tax years 2013-2015 was settled. April 22, 2015 I sent an e-mail to Mandy Gallimore (my representative in Virginia at Wall & Associates) that IRS was going to take away $3,101.00 which was my tax refund for 2014 and asked for her help to stop that. Nothing was done but the IRS did seize the $3,101.00. This began my suspicion that Wall & Associates were doing nothing on my behalf. I requested a statement from Wall & Associates as to what they have done and when they did it of actions on my behalf. I received a letter from Alexandria Weber that on April 27, 2015 they sent a Notice CP 504 and IRS Form 433-A making a formal request to the IRS to place be placed as non-collectible. Since I initiated this agreement with Wall & Associates 1/15/2015 and they did nothing until April 27, 2015. I sought help from a local attorney. His assessment was Wall & Associates is nothing but a sham and will do nothing on my behalf. I terminated my agreement with Wall & Associates July 16, 2015. I have spent $7,500.00 with Wall & Associates and I feel duped. I plan to call the Virginia and South Carolina Attornies General to report this. I will also report it to the Better Business Bureaus.
My name is Angelique Pierce and unfortunately I have become the victim of the shady practices of Wall & Associates, a company I hired to help me resolve some tax matters. In 2013, I had a baby girl and my family was in a very tight financial situation. When my maternity leave ended in June 2013, I came to the conclusion that I was simply not ready to put my 6-week old baby into daycare and, as a result, I made the very difficult decision to go down to one income in my household (mine) in order to keep her at home. I figured that the only way I could meet my bills and family needs was for me to stop paying taxes (state and federal taxes) for a period of time. I did this for many months and, eventually I was forced to address the issue because the 2013 tax season came around. I had to make monthly payment agreements with the state of NC (the state I live in) for $200 per month (on a balance of about $1,600) and the IRS for $220 per month (on a balance of about $12,500). I had agreements in place with both taxing authorities but nothing yet in place with SC (the state I work in).
Eventually the state of SC wanted their money too (approximately $4,500) and they wanted it by September 30, 2014 or they threatened to take action (levy, garnishment, etc.). On or about, September 24, 2014, I went to the SC Department of Revenue office to see what arrangement I could make to pay down my tax balance. The representative stated the lowest payment they would offer was $378 per month for 12 months. I couldn’t see any way that I could add that much to my monthly expenses and still care for my family. I knew I had a big problem brewing because September 30 was just days away and I had no plan. I left the office without making any payment arrangement and came with up an idea to see if I could get some quick help from a tax attorney. This is where Wall & Associates came into the scene. Unfortunately, reaching out to this company for help was a HUGE mistake!
I met with John Robeson of Wall & Associates on September 25, 2014 in Charlotte to discuss my situation. During that conversation, I was made to feel that I was speaking to a tax attorney from an experienced tax firm. John told me that the first problem is that I am being double-taxed by the NC and SC and that I should not have ever been paying taxes in SC. He also talked about his company’s high success rate of being able to cut his client’s tax debts down to about 10% of the balance and how they use a tactic called an “Offer in Compromise” to get the job done. I was really on the fence because John told me that it would cost me $4,000 to even retain his company to take on my case (again, giving the perception of hiring an attorney), and then I would have to pay $400 per month for them to continue to work the case until final resolution. That was just money I did not have. I could feel myself becoming emotional because I couldn’t pay his retainer fee (I only had about $1,000 in my bank account) but I needed immediate help, especially with SC. So John continued to pitch me – he even retrieved a company email in his computer (which he claimed was confidential) that was supposedly proof of his company’s success rate. The email contained client info - stats from the prior week - and he turned his screen toward me as a way of proving that they would surely have success in my case as well. To seal the deal, he reminded me of how urgent the timing was with SC and even did this quick calculation to prove to me how making monthly payments to the taxing authorities will never get me anywhere. He also talked about the tactics that the IRS can use to collect their money – sending an agent to your home to see what assets you have that they can seize, taking the money in your 401k, etc. Then he offered to drop the retainer to $3,000 if I signed agreement that day. So I contacted my mother to see if she could help me in any way and, as awesome mothers do, she saved the day and loaned me the additional $2,000, but I couldn’t get it from her until the next day because she had to borrow it from her credit union.
So John’s solution was for me to pay the $1,000 immediately (September 25, 2014) and that would get them working on securing the Power of Attorney with each of the three taxing authorities and then I would pay the other $2,000 the next day. The deal was sealed and the agreement was for Wall & Associates to represent me “before the taxing authorities for personal income tax for the tax years 2008 – 2014 Federal / NC DOR / SC DOR” as stated in the contract. After I paid the $2,000 on September 26, 2014, I asked John what I was supposed to do with the payment agreements I had in place with NC and the IRS. He directly and firmly told me not to make any more payments to them.
Let me now get to the crux of this situation….
A case team was assigned to me (Ashley Jarrells, Brandon Groseclose, Brittany Stanley, and Christie Craft) and I was contacted by Ashley quickly after I made my payment. That is what initially made me feel that I was in good hands. Ashley was my original point of contact who I found it very difficult to communicate with from the very beginning. I kept trying to get clarity from her about the work that was being done and going to be done. She assured me that the POAs were filed, that they have already been in contact with the department of revenue for both NC and SC, and that they were negotiating my case with them. But I soon fell out of love with the team members because, while I waited for follow-ups from them (believing that my hard-earned money was being put to good use), I learned that it wasn’t.
On or about November 4, 2014 I received a notice via mail from the state of SC which clearly showed they were going to garnish my wages for 25% of every paycheck until they received their full balance. How in the world could that be when I paid Wall & Associates to avoid this very thing and they claimed they were in contact with them??? I immediately contacted my case team via phone and spoke to Ashley. I was furious and wanted a clear explanation of how this could be allowed to happen to me when I hired them to help me avoid these very issues. She did not do a great job at explaining the situation which caused me to ask more questions. I was so frustrated that I wanted exact details of when SC was called and when the SC POA was put in place. Ashley looked in her system and, to my surprise and great dismay I learned that, although I signed my agreement with Wall & Associates on September 25, 2014, my case team member (Brandon) did not make contact with the SC until around October 10, 2014. That, in and of itself, lets me know that my case was being mishandled from the very beginning. I told Ashley that I no longer wanted to speak with her and I wanted to speak directly to Brandon.
When Brandon called me, he tried to make me feel that he was doing everything he could to help. I asked Brandon who his contacts were at the SC DOR. I was appalled when I learned that all Wall & Associates does is call the same 800 number I could call and wait on hold like the rest of us and hope that they can get someone to listen to him about my case. So I told him that he was doing nothing more than I would do. He combated that by stating that they know certain tactics and how to work around the laws... blah, blah, blah. Brandon requested that I send him copies of the SC garnishment notice. At the time, I was traveling for work and had just arrived in my destination city, and I wasn’t able to get to a fax machine or a scanner. So I took pictures of the individual pages using my cell phone and emailed them to him on November 5, 2014. I didn’t get any response from Brandon about the images, but I received the following email from him on November 6, 2014:
My wife and I hired Wall & Associates in September 2013 to help in reducing tax debts and penalties the IRS had put on us for 4 years worth of audits. Prior to hiring Wall & Associates I had negotiated a payment plan with the IRS.
We paid a ""Retainer"" fee to Wall & Associates of $3750, and a monthly payment of $400. They were of NO assistance to us whatsoever! Claimed we made too much money to ask for penalties to be abated. After 5 months I received a letter from the IRS saying that they could not give information to Wall & Associates because THEY had failed to sign the power of attorney papers, so for 5 months (while I was paying them) they apparently had NO communication with the IRS.
In April 2014 I sent them notice that unless they give me a complete breakdown of the work that had been put in on my case that we would terminate the contract. They failed to do so and I sent a termination letter to them at the end of April. Since then, the phone is ringing off the hook trying to get me to call them back. I refuse!
Beware these schisters and do not use them or give them any money! If there is an attorney out there filing a class action lawsuit, count me in!! I'd love to take these b******** to the cleaners!! Contact me through Ripoff Reports.