- sounds like we have similar practices, loads and loads of small businesses and they are always a PITA. The way I've handled it all these years is to make sure the minute they walk in the door they know what we stand for - and it's doing things right, legally, morally, and ethically. I explain to them that they can actually have a lower tax bill AND sleep nights. Furthermore, I pick out half a dozen examples of the under-the-table, never file their taxes, live out of their trucks, kinds of people and ask how much profit exists in the end as a reward for cheating. After all, there's no point in doing something if there is no "up side". Then we make everything we do COD until they are firmly established. A lot of small business owners do what they do because they think that's what everybody does and that's how they have to do it to compete. We try to show them a better way. We do a lot of "and see, if you'd just pocketed this and you got audited, it would be so easy for the IRS to find it because . . Most of them are not sophisticated enough to even do a really good job of cheating. We view them as good people who just need a bit of help to be better people. If they still want to do things in a way we can't support, we move them on out. Usually simply getting more "preachy" does the job. If somebody comes to me for help, and has the ability to pay me, especially in this economy, I'm going to do my very best to give him the best service and the best guidance that is within my ability to give. However, if they can't get "it" past me, they have no shot of getting it past the IRS and Law Enforcement and "it" can't happen because "As much as I like you, I won't put my career on the line for you because my family needs to eat." It goes without saying that he'll need to bring cash for his still outstanding bill to the first meeting!
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From: "Robert Lukey"
To: taxchat@yahoogroups.com
Received: 10/24/08 12:16:57 AM
Subject: Re: [taxchat] Bad Client Question
You could respond back that your practice has changed since he left and that he doesn't fit into your practice anymore.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:10 PM, JoJo Zawawi <kuchekesha@earthlin k.net> wrote:
About 1-1/2 years ago, I had a bookkeeping / tax client that was a total pain in the behind, and as we got to know each other better, I started to find out that he was doing this and that illegal stuff, and I wanted no part of it. It worked out at that time that I did not have to fire him, because he fired me after I prepared his tax return and charged him tax prep rates, not bookkeeping rates. He stiffed me about $ 200 on the bill (paid bookkeeping rates for the time spent) and was very, very rude, and even threatened me that "his new bookkeeper will probably find lots of mistakes and he will bill me for it all", etc. Needless to say, I never heard back from him.Today he sent me an e-mail, apologizing and asking me for advice regarding his business partner. (What advice, I don't know. And hello, I'm not a lawyer !)Of course, I want no part of him.
The question: Do I respond politely, telling him I am busy ? Or do I not even respond ?Cheers,
JoJo
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