[Resolved]  IBSN — IBSN - not refunding my $360 even after 8 months now (File: M73290)

Address:West Bengal

Hi,
This is Koushik Chakrabarti from Kolkata, India. My IBSN File no is M73290. I am an old customer of IBSN and did my US Tax filing for both 2008-09 and 2009-10 through IBSN. However, the behavior IBSN has done with me obliges me to state that IBSN is no better than a typical fraud company who doesnt bother to return money (pending for 8 months) to its customers and doesnt even bother to respond to its customers inspite of repeated mails and telephone calls.

This is my 2nd year with IBSN for filing my US Tax. This year I paid $732.49 to IBSN on Mar-24-2010. The payment confirmation number is IBNIBN[protected]. This payment included US Tax Preparation charges as well as SDIRA charges ($360). Just before accepting the final tax documents, I discussed with Shobha Talari from IBSN and tried to understand the pros and cons of SDIRA option coz nobody from IBSN had explained me the SDIRA options previously. After discussing with Shobha, I decided not to go for the SDIRA option since I had lost my job in US and had permanently returned to India. So it wasn't worth to maintain an SDIRA account.

Shobha accordingly sent me the modified Tax documents and confirmed that SDIRA charges of $360 will be refunded to my Bank of America account since I am opting for non-SDIRA option of Tax Filing. Based on her promise, I accepted the tax documents and completed my filing. After that I had sent so many mails to IBSN and called atleast 20-25 times in their Hyderabad location number and almost everyone gave me an answer that they will return my money soon, and false promises like Finance is looking after it. I kept my patience and now they are not picking up the phone. Even nothing happened after I escalated the issue in IBSN website. It has been 8 months since then and I have no choice left but to raise this in Consumer Forum so that I can get my hard-earned money back.

I would ask IBSN officials to check all my mails to understand what kind of service IBSN had provided to its customers. Please get me my hard-earned $360 refunded. This is not a matter of joke. An amount of $360 may not be anything for you guys but this is a lot of money for a person like me when I had lost my job and returned to India permanently I will not gain anything by saying that IBSN is a fraud company and I don't wish to say that as well, but with the terrible experience I had, I would never deal with a company like this and would recommend everyone I know, not to get involved with IBSN on any financial matters, unless I get my money refunded.

Will I ever get my money back?

Thanks and regards,
Koushik.
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Aug 13, 2020
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They cheat customers also. I don't understand what these guys started business in first place? Don't you have any common sense to play with normal people's hard earned money? If you want to earn money by cheating others try politicians they are eating all the public money and companies like you also start cheating means how one should live in this country?

TO ALL THOSE WHO WANT TO FILE IT RETURNS THROUGH IBSN:

PLEASE DO NOT FALL PREY TO THESE FRAUDSTERS. UNTIL YOU PAY THE MONEY THEY WILL NOT EVEN ALLOW YOU SLEEP. ONCE THEY GET THE MONEY IN THEIR ACCOUNT, EVEN GOD CANNOT FIND THEM OR CONTACT THEM.

WORST COMPANY FOR IT FILING.

LOG ALL YOUR COMPLAINTS ON BBB.ORG and COMPLAINTS.COM

One final word, to all those people at IBSN - not only the management but also the employees... you are in one way or the other supporting / helping these crooks. You will also experience the same fate of the customers who lost their money. Even any one of you have heart kick them and take action so that they are sent behind bars.
IS THERE ANY WAY TO FILE POLICE COMPLAINT OR LEGAL CASE FILING AGAINST IBSN?

PLEASE TELL ME IF ANYONE IS DOING OR INTERESTED. I WILL BE THE FIRST PERSON TO JOIN YOU.
Even we are not getting our 387 $ even after exchanging close to 15 emails and 50 phone calls(half of which they never cared to attend) . Please let us know if you have any luck in getting your money back.

Anitha Vivekanandan
I have also tried to connect with these ibsn tax people to get back my 150$ which I paid as a fee for preparing my file file # I58702 which was wrongly created and was not supposed to be created in first place because due to the duration for which i was in US and the way i got paid for those days, it doesnt apply for me to file in US tax returns for the year 2010... but these guys didnt even let me know this till the very last moment where i had already paid of the tax preparation fees... then when they realised this they did say that it was a mistake from thier end and that they would be refunding my money... this was in March 2011 and now it is July 2011 but there is no response from them... i have sent nearly 10 mails and i dont remember the count of how many times i must have tried reaching them on thier US contact numbers as well as India contact numbers... I am now planning to raise this to Consumer Forum because though i escalated this issue on their website still there was no response from them... it is my hard earned money and IBSN does not have the right to keep this money if there is a mistake at their end in preparing the file...!!!

I will never recommend this company to any of my friends wrt to filing their US tax returns..
This year was my first time usage of IBSN for tax filing and I should say I am really disappointed with the service and response from IBSN. IBSN was suggested by one of my friend. I had used online tax filing site. I am filing US tax for 2010 from India. I have been repeatedly sending my query through internal message system many times and there is no response.

They filed by state tax return and since it was having lot of errors, State tax return was rejected. This was after I paid the amount for tax return. Since then, there is no response from IBSN even when i try to contact them through messaging or email. Their contact number most of the time never works (no one picks up) and when at times some one picks up, nothing significant happens.

There is absolutely no response from IBSN regarding this.There is no help from IBSN side to urgently process the same. The phone numbers or emails given in the site never works. No response from it. Phone number never works. IBSN has made mistakes in my CA tax filing report and the tax filing did not happen. Then I had to filing by myself through one of the US tax filing sites, after last date since IBSN was responding properly.

I have so many messages and sent so may mails and tried reaching them on thier US contact numbers as well as India contact numbers. Their phone numbers are mostly unreachable. Nobody responds through email/ online. They are not responding to any communications - emails, online communication process through their websites, or Phone.

IBSN should return the money that I paid for filing the tax return to me as soon as possible.
I will never recommed this company to anyone for tax filing.

** NEVER AGAIN I WILL USE THIS SERVICE FOR TAX FILING. THESE GUYS ARE COMPLETELY USELESS. LOOKING AT COMPLAINTS HERE, I SEE THEY ARE ALSO NUMBER ONE FRAUD**
This is normal of IBSN. Go ahead and do a "Credit card dispute" if you have paid them through your credit card.

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