Pisenti and Brinker, LLP (P&B) did my, my partner's, and our business' taxes for (amongst other years) the tax year 2010, electronically filed to the IRS...or so I thought.
In 2013 we got a letter from the IRS stating that they never got my partner's 2010 tax return, even though they had received a tax payment from him for that year, which was being held for allocation, pending the receipt of his return. We contacted P&B and notified them, and they claimed ignorance as to whether or not the return was ever filed. We responded to the IRS with a re-printed tax return (which we obtained from P&B) for 2010. We then got a letter from the IRS stating that he owed an additional $3,474.96 in taxes, penalties and interest.
It ends up that the additional taxes owed ($3,158) were due to P&B preparing his tax return wrongly, applying MY previous year's overpayment of taxes to HIS return, in error. The additional $247.86 in interest and $69.10 in penalties were applied because P&B never electronically filed his return, as they were advised to do, and as they actually did do with both my and my businesses' return.
Perhaps they never filed his return because they knew it was done incorrectly, but then they never notified us? In the mean time, we got stuck with an additional tax bill of $3,158, and had to pay $316.96 in penalties and interest STRICTLY due to their error. Before trusting your tax work to Pisenti & Brinker, I would advise any individuals, or businesses, to steer clear of this CPA firm. read more