Tax returns dumped outside after eviction of Jackson Hewitt franchise

[Liberal_in_LA]

Abandoned S.F. tax office's returns left outside


A Bay Area woman named Kara got an upsetting call the morning of Oct. 22.

The caller said she had found Kara's 2007 tax return lying in a pile with hundreds of others on the ground in front of an abandoned Jackson Hewitt tax preparation office at 1734 Divisadero St. in San Francisco.

The tax returns were damp, meaning they had been out at least overnight. Kara, who did not want her last name used because she is worried about her privacy, was unable to reach anyone at Jackson Hewitt's headquarters in New Jersey or the San Francisco office, which had recently closed and moved a block up the street. So she called the San Francisco Police Department.

Bach said building owner Jack Abrass had been unable to get his former tenant, Lionel Mayrand, to remove "some remaining junk," including two shredding boxes and two sealed bags of paper. Finally, the owner's wife called a shredding company, which promised to pick up the items at noon on Oct. 20. When the shredders hadn't arrived by 1:30 or 1:45, Barbara Abrass called them and "they suggested I put it out by the front door. They said they would be by within an hour and a half," she said.

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Kara said when she called Jackson Hewitt's corporate office last week to report the incident, she was told they would investigate it. But the company has not provided her with details or answered her request for free credit monitoring. Kara, the woman who called her, Abrass and Bach said they have not been contacted as part of the firm's investigation.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/03/MNCS1LQB95.DTL#ixzz1clHg5YxK

[DeSwiss]

1. {SIGHS} - K&R n/t

[KamaAina]

2. Jackson Hewitt sucks

they primarily prey on serve low-income neighborhoods (the location described is at the edge of one). They promise the largest possible refunds, then deliver* by aggressively claiming credits and deductions that often aren't allowable.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. and they obviously don't care about the privacy of their clients.

[monmouth]

4. These clients paid upfront also. Hope they get their money back..n/t