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| Ricksar Associates 20283 State Road 7 Suite 109
Boca Raton, Florida United States of America |
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Ricksar Associates Rick Abdallah Ripped off for services: Extremely poor quality of services and complete disarray and disorganization of company Boca Raton , Florida
*REBUTTAL Individual responds: The Tall Tales reported by Dr. William Trebbing
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Ricksar associates and their head honcho, Rick Abdallah, talk a good sales pitch but for me at least brought me nothing but frustration and further accounting problems. On recommendation I traveled from NY to Florida in APril of 2010 to meet Mr. Abdallah and discuss business accounting services, and legal business structures he claimed he was competent in setting up. Nothing could have been further from the truth. After traveling 3 hours on a plane he kept me waiting for an appointment 3 hours.
When we finally had our meeting, which lasted about 2 hours, he brought in another staff member and discussed with me all the things that could be done for filing tax returns I was late on, and one that had a deadline for October 15 2010. Being satisfied with the meeting after that time, and being told how his firm would proceed (all the while breathing in his second hand smoke for 2 hours), I proceeded home with the understanding I would send him a $5,100 retainer for all the work to be completed, as we also discussed setting up several business structures to aid in organization of my future goals.
I sent him the $5,100 promptly, and then anticipated he would contact me with his progress on my case. I waited........I waited.........and still waited more............finally called his office in mid May and spoke to Mr. Abdallah. He told me they were diligently working on the materials and data I sent and that within a month the tax forms at least would be completed, and they would have the business structures finished by the fall. I waited 2 more months.....still no word from them............
I finally called back in September and asked them what they had done.....guess what? Nothing! They had even lost the data and materials I had sent. Spoke to several people there and Mr. Abdallah, who assured me they were going through a hard time, firing people et al, and that he would personally stay up late and get the tax forms done by the weekend. This never happened. i could go on, but lets just summarize by saying about 50 calls and emails of my valuable time went into trying to understand what they were actually doing with the $5,100 deposit I sent them.
All in all, the tallied my deductions up which I could have done myself on my QUICKEN program, missed valuable deductions which I had to hire another local accountant to discover, did not set up any business structures as we discussed, and sent me my tax forms to be sent to the IRS on October 15 201 at 3:30 in the afternoon! All I had time to do was rush to the post office to send them in without even being able to examine all the mistakes they made. Nothing we initially discussed in April was ever completed, save the noted late arriving 1040's, they took forever to send me back my records so I could have another accountant clean up their mess,
I still did not have the business structures they said they would complete, and I discovered that Mr. Abdallah was not even a CPA! They wasted 7 months of my time, lying on the phone about work they never even started, claiming often times that they had higher priority clients. They refused to return any of the $5,100 I paid them to do work I could have received from a factory accounting house for $1000. I would steer clear from this organization, or at least do not pay for any services until they are actually completed.
When we finally had our meeting, which lasted about 2 hours, he brought in another staff member and discussed with me all the things that could be done for filing tax returns I was late on, and one that had a deadline for October 15 2010. Being satisfied with the meeting after that time, and being told how his firm would proceed (all the while breathing in his second hand smoke for 2 hours), I proceeded home with the understanding I would send him a $5,100 retainer for all the work to be completed, as we also discussed setting up several business structures to aid in organization of my future goals.
I sent him the $5,100 promptly, and then anticipated he would contact me with his progress on my case. I waited........I waited.........and still waited more............finally called his office in mid May and spoke to Mr. Abdallah. He told me they were diligently working on the materials and data I sent and that within a month the tax forms at least would be completed, and they would have the business structures finished by the fall. I waited 2 more months.....still no word from them............
I finally called back in September and asked them what they had done.....guess what? Nothing! They had even lost the data and materials I had sent. Spoke to several people there and Mr. Abdallah, who assured me they were going through a hard time, firing people et al, and that he would personally stay up late and get the tax forms done by the weekend. This never happened. i could go on, but lets just summarize by saying about 50 calls and emails of my valuable time went into trying to understand what they were actually doing with the $5,100 deposit I sent them.
All in all, the tallied my deductions up which I could have done myself on my QUICKEN program, missed valuable deductions which I had to hire another local accountant to discover, did not set up any business structures as we discussed, and sent me my tax forms to be sent to the IRS on October 15 201 at 3:30 in the afternoon! All I had time to do was rush to the post office to send them in without even being able to examine all the mistakes they made. Nothing we initially discussed in April was ever completed, save the noted late arriving 1040's, they took forever to send me back my records so I could have another accountant clean up their mess,
I still did not have the business structures they said they would complete, and I discovered that Mr. Abdallah was not even a CPA! They wasted 7 months of my time, lying on the phone about work they never even started, claiming often times that they had higher priority clients. They refused to return any of the $5,100 I paid them to do work I could have received from a factory accounting house for $1000. I would steer clear from this organization, or at least do not pay for any services until they are actually completed.
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The Tall Tales reported by Dr. William Trebbing
AUTHOR: Rick Abdallah - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, January 06, 2013
Dr. William Trebbing came to our firm after friends of his other Chiropractic Doctors had been served by our firm RICKSAR ASSOCIATES, LLC and their tax problems were successfully resolved, Those were Dr. Jeff Hazim of Fort Lauderdale, FL and Dr. Ken Barrett of Sacramento, CA. Both of whom are not only happy with our services but are actually advocates for the level and quality of service they received.
Dr. Trebbing Came to RICKSAR ASSOCIATES to prepare taxes for him, his business and for his "Common Law" wife. He also indicated an interest in starting a non-profit foundation. We were happy to be of service to him and welcomed him as a client. He was treated with the utmost respect. The company limousine picked him up at fort lauderdale airport and dropped him off. And in our office he was served beverages and snacks as we do with all our clients. Yes I am a smoker, no shame in that. However I smoked outside the office door in the smoking area.
We knew that Dr. Trebbing had been a tax protestor who had in some of the many abusive tax resistance schemes including "The Accepted for Value" Scam. Infact he had advised at least one other client to partake in the same. And the client is available and willing to testify to that if need be. We also knew that Dr. Trebbing had been under investigation by the CID "Criminal Investigation Division" of the Internal Revenue service just the year before.
After starting on his case,certain things started to come to the surface with the case. Such as unreported offshore Bank Accounts under fictitious Association Names in Panama. We also through Discussions we realized that he has properties that generated un-reported revenues in Panama as well. Those activities are illegal when not reported and having a bank account offshore that is unreported to the U.S. Department of Treasury is actually an FBAR violation that the government actually prosecutes for.
We asked him to supply us with the necessary information so that we can prepare the returns required in the manner that is legal and acceptable to the government. He sent us many different sets of information to prepare those returns. He also had unreported investments with a company called GLADIUS INVESTMENTS, which we advised him was a PONZI scheme, and sure enough it turns out to be just that. And the principals of that company were prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice last year and are currently serving prison sentences.
Dr. Trebbing was calling and engaging our professional staff working on his returns on a regular consistent and lengthy basis, not to mention he was extremely abusive to the Licensed Tax Professional that were working his case. In all there was almost 30 hours of telephone calls logged, and we still were arguing with him about what is a legal deduction or not among other items of contention, all he paid us was the initial retainer, which was minimal.
Dr. Trebbing only cared about getting his Non-Profit Foundation up and running for his own purposes. We explained to him on many occasions that we couldnt pursue setting up a non-profit organization for him until he was in full tax compliance.
After much abuse and lack of cooperation and understanding by Dr. Trebbing, and his unreasonablity, a decision was reached to just provide him with the tax returns he contracted us to prepare and not to bill him further, because he came through existing clients, but to drop him as a client. And at his request, all his documents were returned to him.
He was provided with quality service, treated with respect, and we find it very unfortunate that he would write those very damaging lies on blogs and hides his last name. We have copies as requires by regulation of all his records and his wife's records and if need be we are willing tohave any government agency examine our work and his documents and ascertain that we did our job at the highest standard of professionalism.
I am including below, one of the last emails sent to Dr, Trebbing by me, highlighting some of the points mentioned here.
Dr, Trebbing if you have any character at all, you would remove your comments, but it is comforting to know that we also have hundreds of Very Satisfied clients that will be happy to provide rebuttal to your claims regarding our service.
for all who read this please read what was said to Dr. Trebbing.
Rick Abdallah
10/14/10
to jgspitz, William, Francisco, ROSEMARY
Dear Will,
You are really being unreasonable with your constant bombardment of emails. What have we been doing lets see, WE HAVE SPENT OVER 28 HOURS GOING BACK AND FORTH WITH YOU IN PREPARING TAX RETURNS FOR YOU AND TAKING PHONE CALLS AND ANSWERING EMAIL, none of which you have been charged for, IT HAS BEEN EXPLAINED TO YOU THAT UNTIL YOU ARE IN COMPLIANCE, DO NOT DREAM OF HAVING YOUR FOUNDATION READY TO ROLL, THIRDLY WE ARE IN THE LAST TWO DAYS OF THE END OF THE EXTENSION FILING TAXES PERIOD, AND ON TOP OF ALL THAT WE TEND TO REAL EMERGENCIES FIRST BEFORE WE TEND TO ROUTINE MATTERS.
I LIKE YOU, BUT AT THE RATE THAT WE ARE GOING HERE I MUST QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT A SINGLE CLIENT WHO I AM NOT EVEN IN A POSITION TO BREAKEVEN ON IS WORTH ALL THIS. SO EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, I AM NO LONGER ANSWERING YOUR EMAILS UNTIL TUESDAY, ANY EMAILS RECEIVED BEFORE THEN WILL BE DISCARDED.
I HAVE GIVEN YOU EVERY COURTESY, I HAVE RECEIVED VERY LITTLE IN RETURN, NOW I MUST DO THIS UNFORTUNATELY. YOU WILL HAVE YOUR TAXES AS FRANCISCO PROMISED SO YOU CAN MAIL IT ON TIME WITH THE APPROPRIATE STAMP DATE.
WE WILL NOT TAKE CALLS ANYMORE THAT ARE UNNECESSARY, AND NO PHONES ARE TO BE ACCEPTED BEFORE TUESDAY, AND I WILL NOT ENTERTAIN OR EVEN READ LENGTHY EMAILS BECAUSE I DO HAVE OTHER WORK BESIDES READING LONG EMAILS.
THANK YOU FOR YOU UNDERSTANDING.
RICK
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Dr. Trebbing Came to RICKSAR ASSOCIATES to prepare taxes for him, his business and for his "Common Law" wife. He also indicated an interest in starting a non-profit foundation. We were happy to be of service to him and welcomed him as a client. He was treated with the utmost respect. The company limousine picked him up at fort lauderdale airport and dropped him off. And in our office he was served beverages and snacks as we do with all our clients. Yes I am a smoker, no shame in that. However I smoked outside the office door in the smoking area.
We knew that Dr. Trebbing had been a tax protestor who had in some of the many abusive tax resistance schemes including "The Accepted for Value" Scam. Infact he had advised at least one other client to partake in the same. And the client is available and willing to testify to that if need be. We also knew that Dr. Trebbing had been under investigation by the CID "Criminal Investigation Division" of the Internal Revenue service just the year before.
After starting on his case,certain things started to come to the surface with the case. Such as unreported offshore Bank Accounts under fictitious Association Names in Panama. We also through Discussions we realized that he has properties that generated un-reported revenues in Panama as well. Those activities are illegal when not reported and having a bank account offshore that is unreported to the U.S. Department of Treasury is actually an FBAR violation that the government actually prosecutes for.
We asked him to supply us with the necessary information so that we can prepare the returns required in the manner that is legal and acceptable to the government. He sent us many different sets of information to prepare those returns. He also had unreported investments with a company called GLADIUS INVESTMENTS, which we advised him was a PONZI scheme, and sure enough it turns out to be just that. And the principals of that company were prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice last year and are currently serving prison sentences.
Dr. Trebbing was calling and engaging our professional staff working on his returns on a regular consistent and lengthy basis, not to mention he was extremely abusive to the Licensed Tax Professional that were working his case. In all there was almost 30 hours of telephone calls logged, and we still were arguing with him about what is a legal deduction or not among other items of contention, all he paid us was the initial retainer, which was minimal.
Dr. Trebbing only cared about getting his Non-Profit Foundation up and running for his own purposes. We explained to him on many occasions that we couldnt pursue setting up a non-profit organization for him until he was in full tax compliance.
After much abuse and lack of cooperation and understanding by Dr. Trebbing, and his unreasonablity, a decision was reached to just provide him with the tax returns he contracted us to prepare and not to bill him further, because he came through existing clients, but to drop him as a client. And at his request, all his documents were returned to him.
He was provided with quality service, treated with respect, and we find it very unfortunate that he would write those very damaging lies on blogs and hides his last name. We have copies as requires by regulation of all his records and his wife's records and if need be we are willing tohave any government agency examine our work and his documents and ascertain that we did our job at the highest standard of professionalism.
I am including below, one of the last emails sent to Dr, Trebbing by me, highlighting some of the points mentioned here.
Dr, Trebbing if you have any character at all, you would remove your comments, but it is comforting to know that we also have hundreds of Very Satisfied clients that will be happy to provide rebuttal to your claims regarding our service.
for all who read this please read what was said to Dr. Trebbing.
Rick Abdallah
10/14/10
to jgspitz, William, Francisco, ROSEMARY
Dear Will,
You are really being unreasonable with your constant bombardment of emails. What have we been doing lets see, WE HAVE SPENT OVER 28 HOURS GOING BACK AND FORTH WITH YOU IN PREPARING TAX RETURNS FOR YOU AND TAKING PHONE CALLS AND ANSWERING EMAIL, none of which you have been charged for, IT HAS BEEN EXPLAINED TO YOU THAT UNTIL YOU ARE IN COMPLIANCE, DO NOT DREAM OF HAVING YOUR FOUNDATION READY TO ROLL, THIRDLY WE ARE IN THE LAST TWO DAYS OF THE END OF THE EXTENSION FILING TAXES PERIOD, AND ON TOP OF ALL THAT WE TEND TO REAL EMERGENCIES FIRST BEFORE WE TEND TO ROUTINE MATTERS.
I LIKE YOU, BUT AT THE RATE THAT WE ARE GOING HERE I MUST QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT A SINGLE CLIENT WHO I AM NOT EVEN IN A POSITION TO BREAKEVEN ON IS WORTH ALL THIS. SO EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, I AM NO LONGER ANSWERING YOUR EMAILS UNTIL TUESDAY, ANY EMAILS RECEIVED BEFORE THEN WILL BE DISCARDED.
I HAVE GIVEN YOU EVERY COURTESY, I HAVE RECEIVED VERY LITTLE IN RETURN, NOW I MUST DO THIS UNFORTUNATELY. YOU WILL HAVE YOUR TAXES AS FRANCISCO PROMISED SO YOU CAN MAIL IT ON TIME WITH THE APPROPRIATE STAMP DATE.
WE WILL NOT TAKE CALLS ANYMORE THAT ARE UNNECESSARY, AND NO PHONES ARE TO BE ACCEPTED BEFORE TUESDAY, AND I WILL NOT ENTERTAIN OR EVEN READ LENGTHY EMAILS BECAUSE I DO HAVE OTHER WORK BESIDES READING LONG EMAILS.
THANK YOU FOR YOU UNDERSTANDING.
RICK
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IRS Circular 230 Disclosure New IRS rules restrict written federal tax advice from lawyers and accountants. We include the following statement in all outbound e-mails because even inadvertent violations may be penalized. To ensure compliance with these requirements, we inform you that any tax advice contained in this communication (including any attachments) is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding penalties that may be imposed on any taxpayer or (ii) promoting, marketing or recommending to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein.
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Confidentiality Notice. This message may contain confidential or privileged information. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately.
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