I’ve been working with a cpa for a few years. In the beginning, the support was great—they handled receipts, bookkeeping, and walked me through all the tax details. At that time, the four-figure cost made sense.
This past year, I handled everything myself. I organized the receipts, created profit and loss reports, and put everything together in an easy Excel format. Even with that, I was still quoted the same four-figure cost as when they were doing all the work. Their explanation was that pricing is based on the complexity of the returns.
For context, I only have three filings:
• One personal (just a W-2 and K-1 for self-employment)
• One LLC (very little profit)
• One corporation (no profit)
When I saw the bill, I decided to cancel before signing or picking up any documents. I let them know by email that I felt the cost was unreasonable and wanted to stop services.
Now they’re saying that if I don’t pay, they’ll sue. What are my options here?
Mindful I first coordinated to have them do my taxes through email in February, they didn’t get to them until June.
Posted by kyrdspeed
2 Comments
Did you still let them file your taxes? Also did you not know what they were charging upfront before they filed?
Yeah I feel like you should have had this discussion about pricing before they did the work. Unless of course no fee was discussed and its way out of the norm. .I would just pay their fee and move on next year with a different CPA if your not happy. Its not up to you to determine what they should charge. Just becauses you didnt sign the return doesnt mean they get back all the time they put in. I dont know what business you have but I am pretty sure you would flip script if someone did that to you.