Anthem Tax Services
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Anthem Tax Services has 1.0 star rating based on 4 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
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Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "BUYER BEWARE! ANTHEM SCAMMED MY FAMILY OUT OF $19,200", "Don't waste your money".
Consumers are not pleased with Billing Practices and Customer service. The price level of this organization is high according to consumer reviews.
The aggregated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
Anthem Tax Services has 1.0 star rating based on 4 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
- Rating Distribution
Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "BUYER BEWARE! ANTHEM SCAMMED MY FAMILY OUT OF $19,200", "Don't waste your money".
Consumers are not pleased with Billing Practices and Customer service. The price level of this organization is high according to consumer reviews.
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Anthem Tax Services ripped off my family and still no resolution after almost 4 years!!
It has not been resolved and Anthem is not being reasonable.
It has now been over a week since my initial review and since then Anthem and their “mediator” Todd Lewis from “Reputation MD” has been wanting us to take it down because we shared our story online. He said he was neutral and unbiased, but he ignored all of my documented evidence which clearly showed Anthem misled us and he has an “anthemtaxservices” email address so I that was an immediate red flag that I could not trust him!!
If you have been contacted by him, my sincerest recommendation is to keep all correspondence via email so he can’t lie or give you inaccurate information like he tried with us. I’d like to continue to share my experience weekly so that Anthem doesn’t hurt more innocent people. Unfortunately, back in 2021 my husband and I fell victim to their OIC scam. For years they kept requesting my husband gather bills, statements, etc.
thinking they were working on an OIC for us. In March of 2024 an Anthem representative said again he was going to file an OIC if we paid Anthem an additional $14,600 for their extended service. He told us, that based on his experience, “our IRS debt would be reduced to under $20,000”. After paying them a total of $19,200 over almost 4 years for their so-called tax expertise, we found out they lied (meaning they suddenly said we had never qualified for an OIC) and we now owe $224,000!!
They could have said that in the start. If you feel that you have been wronged or scammed by Anthem Tax Services, contact the BBB immediately. Together, we can fight against Anthem’s deceptive marketing, lies and misrepresentation. Todd failed to resolve our money back guarantee, and we are currently looking for legal advice to seek damages for all the economic damage that Anthem has caused us.
For all of you out there that own a house and cars, or if you make over $80,000 combined, you will probably not qualify for an OIC.
Based on online data, less than 36% of all OIC’s submitted are accepted and you can file an OIC on your own and only pay $205, rather than paying thousands upon thousands of dollars to companies like Anthem. We racked up tens of thousands in IRS interest and penalties because of Anthem’s wasteful delays.
Here is my story: In July 2021, my husband and I retained Anthem to help resolve our tax debt after seeing a commercial on TV.
Anthem uses compelling ads to prey on people like us who have IRS debt and don't know where else to turn. They use deceptive tactics to lure potential clients in. Anthem representatives told us that we would have a resolution within 30 to 60 days in writing, and we were promised an Offer in Compromise and that they would reduce our total payment to the IRS. Anthem said they would negotiate with the IRS for us, but they never even tried and we were blatantly dupped.
Anthem representatives constantly told us that the IRS was backed up with cases or negotiating and that was causing the long delay.
Months, turned into years and now, almost 4 years later, we still have NO resolution. Anthem dropped the ball, was extremely negligent, incompetent and did NOT reduce our debt by any stretch of the imagination.
Because of Anthem Tax Services negligence, my husband and I are now forced into the daunting process of taking out a Home Equity Line of Credit in order to pay the IRS in full all of the monies owed because our fees and interest are over $800 every week. We had no knowledge the interest and penalties were piling on compounded astronomically over the years to over $75,000.
To make matters even worse, in October 2024, we were coached by a so called Anthem Tax Specialist to buy 2 cars in order to reduce our IRS disposable income. She said verbatim, "it's better for you to pay for two new used cars, rather than pay the IRS." Even after nearly four years, Anthem still never filed an Offer in Compromise for us and said we would have to pay the whole amount anyway and there was nothing they could do.
We were blatantly lied to and they took all of our money over the years in 4 payments totaling $19,200.
Even after all of this, Anthem is not giving us our money back. Anthem's mission statement and guarantee, if they are unable to save money, rework payments, or deliver the expected outcomes, clients are eligible for a refund. We contacted Anthem over 2 weeks ago about our request for money back. They are not fulfilling their obligations!!
No family should ever have to go through this living nightmare like we did!
Buyer Beware!! If you believe you were wronged or scammed by Anthem, file a Better Business Bureau complaint immediately.
- Lie they make false promises zero transparency scammers
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: BUYER BEWARE! ANTHEM SCAMMED MY FAMILY OUT OF $19,200
Pacifica, California
Anthem Tax Services is a Ripoff and a Scam
This company makes promises it can't keep. Then you are told the truth about what they can't do and then they make promises about what they say they can do and then they don't keep those promises.
David Cruz, a slick salesman, stops taking or returning calls once he has an agreement and starts receiving payments.
The "Case Officers" don't respond to emails, don't take calls and don't return calls. The poor victim of this ripoff has laid out money better spent paying down their tax obligation than hiring this company.
User's recommendation: Don't waste your money
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Merced, California
Anthem Tax Services is dishonest and full of liars
ATS states on their home page on their website that if they cannot save you on owed back taxes they will refund their fee. This is a lie flat out.
Do not use Anthem. They are dishonest and thieves.
They didn't save me one cent and strung it out over 4 months so they could take more of my money. DO NOT USE ANTHEM more their
Incompetence and Dysfunction At It's Best
13 month horrible experience with Owner/Partners/Employees…All complicit with deceit, preying on hardworking people’s blight with the IRS and State Tax agencies. Argumentative/Combative/Manipulative/Rude and downright disrespectful!
Please take your business elsewhere as they are only capable of delivering false promises and lies! Be especially careful of the Partners (All 3 of them working collectively to destroy your character as soon as you start questioning they’re competency in managing your case). I firmly believe they threaten the employees from being open and honest with you. You will be placed on speaker phone without your knowledge as they try to entrap you and make you feel that you are a problem, even when you simply try to inquire about an update on your case.
What honest establishment would place you on speaker phone without transparency? No one should have their personal information shared with the entire company without notice! Owner went as far as to intimidate me into (Illegal Astrosurfing)…requiring that I place a positive company review on Survey Monkey for them to continue with my case, or else, my case would be closed and they would revoke Power of Attorney.
Meanwhile, they had done everything to screw up my case for 7 months!!!...Beware!!!...My case has never been completed. You can best believe if confronted, they will collaboratively lie!!!
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