Blue Tax
Reviews and Complaints

Blue tax's owner, David "justin" urbas has personally had liens filed on him by the state and IRS back in 04, AND he was ordered to pay a 1.3million restitution judgement in 06.

HIs company, blue tax/blue tax consulting corp has CA EDD employment tax liens for all quarters of 2012/2013. Can't even pay his own taxes, probably shouldn't handle other peoples tax problems

he is starting to operate the company under his wife's name, as well: http://www.corporationwiki.com/California/Los-Angeles/angelica-urbas/107770662.aspx

all information in this email is from public records search: http://losangeles.netronline.com/la-index.php search for justin urbas and blue tax and select option "search by grantor"

[protected] 2012-03-16 TAX LIEN BLUE TAX INC CALIFORNIA STATE EMPLOYMENT
[protected] 2012-04-17 TAX LIEN BLUE TAX INC CALIFORNIA STATE EMPLOYMENT
[protected] 2013-03-28 TAX LIEN BLUE TAX INC CALIFORNIA STATE EMPLOYMENT
[protected] 2013-07-16 TAX LIEN BLUE TAX INC CALIFORNIA STATE EMPLOYMENT
[protected] 2013-09-17 TAX LIEN BLUE TAX INC CALIFORNIA STATE EMPLOYMENT
[protected] 2013-10-29 TAX LIEN BLUE TAX CONSULTING CORPORATION CALIFORNIA STATE EMPLOYMENT
[protected] 2004-12-22 TAX LIEN URBAS DAVID J UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE
[protected] 2004-07-22 TAX LIEN URBAS DAVID J CALIFORNIA STATE FRANCHISE TAX

Number Date Type Grantors Grantees
[protected] 2004-01-13 TAX LIEN URBAS DAVID J CALIFORNIA STATE FRANCHISE TAX
[protected] 1998-02-05 TAX LIEN URBAS DAVID CALIFORNIA STATE EMPLOYMENT

These resources may help taxpayers faced with an unscrupulous "tax relief" company :

1) Contact the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and file a complaint. They oversee, and can sanction, Attorneys, CPAs, Enrolled Agents, Registered Tax Return Preparers (RTRP) and others: http://1.usa.gov/18tXSWN

2) Use IRS Form 14157 to file a written complaint against your tax return preparer: http://1.usa.gov/Qm1rSC

In all cases, always search the Web in the name of the person AND company you're thinking about hiring. Websites (such as this one) provide invaluable feedback to taxpayers and expose those organizations that don't have their client's best interest in mind. Good luck.

Michael Raanan, MBA, EA
Former IRS Officer
President
www.LandmarkTaxGroup.com

Don't fall prey to the new company brought to you by the wonderful Todd Lewis and Justin Urbas [Of the quickly declining Blue Tax scam]

You'll notice the similar childish animated poorly designed website FireFinancial.com that immediately reminds you of bluetax.com

They're not even trying to hide the relation, if you look at public WHOIS records of firefinancial, it's registered to Blue Tax VP Todd Lewis, and blue tax mailing address:

Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Todd Lewis
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: 8236 Remmet Ave.
Registrant City: Canoga Park
Registrant State/Province: California
Registrant Postal Code: 91304
Registrant Country: United States
Registrant Phone: [protected]

In case you didn't know, Todd Lewis is the malicious, degrading, demeaning vp of Blue Tax that will tell you that you are going to hell, or must prey on little animals.

He'll promise you the world on the phone, or if he does agree to a refund check, it will bounce, because Blue Tax doesn't have any new money. That's why their starting "Fire Financial" out of the same office. You'll see the domain is only 2 months old, so any claims of 'prior customers' or 'prior performance' are complete FRAUD.

If you want a little more backgrond on the owner of blue tax, that would be Justin & angelica Urbas, aka David Justin Urbas.

Look him up on http://losangeles.netronline.com/la-index.php, you'll see he has a nice track record of starting a company, defrauding the CA EDD [ca employment tax], and the IRS. It leaves his employees high and dry when they file their tax returns or file for unemployment, because according to the state, justin never sends any records to them.

Youll see he has tax liens against him by the state, by the IRS, under both Blue Tax, and XTS global, his prior companies.

He's now had to resort to using his poor wife's name [angelica urbas] to try to escape the public's eye. His wife is now listed as the president of blue tax consulting corp [http://www.corporationwiki.com/California/Los-Angeles/angelica-urbas/107770662.aspx ]

Think twice before putitng your financial and family's future in the hands of the Lewis and Urbas family who scam for a living, with no remorse.

I hired Blue tax THREE years ago and still NOTHING done by them, except steal my Money and close my case, (see below) I asked them to put me on paperwork and they promised by a certain date, and failed. I filed a complaint with the BBB and they sent me false paperwork that they really hadnt sent to the IRS, . Spoke with the IRS agent today, and performed Blue taxes Obligation myself.
. Although Blue Tax claims that they put me on the paperwork as requested on 7/30/12 the IRS advised that they did NOT submit this paperwork, period., and I completed this task via telephone with them personally (another job Blue Tax was required to perform on my account). Blue Tax, again, has lied about taking care of the job to which they said that they will do, in order to "TRICK" me to remove my complaint with the BBB In the meantime my phone is being blown up by TL, VP of Blue Tax, demanding and threatening me to remove my complaint against the company with the BBB.
I knew he lied about filing with the IRS so I asked him this:
As promised from you, I want the IRS agents name and ID number to which confirmed that I am PLACED on a Hardship.You promised via telephone to produce this information . As you said it would be included with the Hardship document sent to me via email, but again, it was not. We will talk after I obtain this information, to which you promised.

The following is his response, (this kind of mentality is what you constantly deal with regarding this egregious company:)
TL VP of Blue tax responded by saying:
That there was no such promise. He expressed that my fabrication of events and deceit continue to cloud my judgement of events and time lines.He expressed that I lied to us about being married and about the piece of property He expressed Blue Tax will no longer be held hostage to lies, bi polar personality, and verbal assaults laced with blasphemy and profanity. He said I may want to seek a small animal or child to whom may be defenseless against your attacks to pick on, but Blue Tax will no longer take your abuse. Then he closed my case and stated No refund will be issued.
He closed by stating to me that he knows that I mentioned that you don't believe in god, ( false) but as a god fearing company, we pray for your soul. It may be time to seek him and turn your life around

To TL VP of Blue Tax
I have asked your company not to have you contact me due to your unprofessionalism. You have not called me four times. You have attempted to bombard my phone with your calls, which are only continual rantings, along with personal jabs, to which I find harassing. Currently, you do not have the opportunity to conduct yourself in this manner on my voicemail.as I have had it turned off, to alleviate myself from your harassment. ... but now, after speaking with the IRS, I see there is attempted deception put into play concerning my account, in addition all of the above concerning your psyche.
My husband has nothing to do with this, and I see you searched out his cell phone number and contacted him and also attempted to contact him on two occasions. I did not sign a statement with your company stating that you could contact or involve him in my tax matter. We were not married at the (LONG) time ago that I employed your company, although you insist that I was.
You, personally, are not to contact me or any person in relation to me via telephone. ...
I contacted the IRS, the paperwork that you sent me is a complete lie.. I personally took care of the job with The IRS to which you said was put IN PLACE on the 30th of July, by your company, which in reality... was not. I want a full refund from your company for noncompliance to the services to which you advertise, which to date have remained services not rendered. My complaint to the BBB justly stands, after notification from the IRS that you have not fulfilled ANY of your duties, although you claimed differently, which I see is an outright lie to me, the client

Blue Tax is a fraudulent, irresponsible company which will lie to you for years and years. They never perform the duties to which they describe what they will do in regards to tax relief, and in the end if you are suckered into their bogus "A" rating by the BBB, you will eventually be in litigation for noncompliance to their advertised bull, seeking punitive damages and so on and so forth.File a complaint with the FTC, and sue them. Businesses like this need to be barred from this country. If you are a VICTIM of Blue Tax it is time that you file an extensive report of your dealings with them to the Los Angeles BBB and make sure their rating goes to what it should be "C' for Criminals or "F " for Fraudulent Failures. Do your part... and save people from this pathetic outfit and save them from dealing with the VP.

Well some things never change, unless your Todd Lewis who had one of the worst reputations in the tax business as seen above, and the started a new Tax Business Honest Tax and and goes by the alias Mitch Agnew! Same guy, different fake name!

On Feb 22, 2012 I posted a complaint against Blue Tax. This was a mistake! I wrongly confused Blue tax Inc., of California, with the company I was having trouble with. There is more than one blue tax company out there and I got the wrong place and person!
Blue Tax Inc, of California, is NOT to be confused with the other tax places out there.
I regret my mistake and hope I have not caused any future problems.
Greg Speaker

I have also been scammed by Blue Tax Inc. They got me for over $19, 000. on my credit card up front and never did anything for me. They took MY money BEFORE they sent me a contract to sign. Then They say, NO REFUNDS. Good timing . Now Todd Lewis says he MAY refund 2000. WOW They even convinced my wife to sign her name to my CC knowing she wasnt even on it. I did contact the BBB but they have not responded to me. Is there anything else I can do ? speakergb@cbpu.com