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In December 2018 i made the mistake of hiring Coastal Tax Partners/Rescue One Financial/Elite Tax Defense to help me with my past due taxes owed to the IRS. Looking back I remember thinking "who the *** is coastal tax partners and how did they get my information?" The woman on the phone assured me that i had filled out my information and told me how great coastal tax was and especially this Andrew Gubler guy who is supposed to be the owner of the company and I figured I needed help no matter what so I spent an hour on the phone with that woman, even though she sounded like a man, and i should have stopped when I heard people laughing in back ground using the f word every other sentence.
What kind of tax firm does that? So then i was told to do my research on mr gubler on linkedin where I could see what a hot shot he was. Of course, turns out you can write anything on linkedin and no one verifies it. so he has made up everything about him.
Finally i got to tlak to Mr. Andrew Gubler and he was so *** and arrogant talking about how everyone is scared of the IRS but the IRS is scared of him. He told me at least 5 times that he was the MANAGING TAX DIRECTOR and only HE can approve us to get help. Then he tells me they have attorneys with 100 years of experience and that he can get my past due amount to settle on pennies for the dollar.
LIES LIES LIES. First of all Andrew Gubler isn't some tax director of anything. He is a salesman and all he cares about is making money by taking mine through lies. Second I found out by going to the California Secretary of State website that Coastal Tax Partners doesn't exist.
There is no company with that name anywhere. Look it up yourself. Even worse is that they dont have a dozen attorneys like Mr. Gubler said.
NO instead they have some guy who is like a paralegal. And what do these paralegals do? NOTHING YOU CANT DO ON YOUR OWN. I heard they call the same number you or I would call.
Even worse they email the same information that i sent them. They literally do nothing and they try to get as much of my money as possible. I listened to their excuses for a couple of months but suddenly they never called me and when I called it seemed Mr. Andrew Gubler was too buys finding his next victim to give me my money back Instead I end up talking to a different person every time and NO ONE knew what the *** was going on.
I tried to get my money back for weeks but more lies and excuses are all I got.
So instead of getting money back, I want to make to warn everyone not to do business with COASTAL TAX PARTNERS or the scam artist, con man, liar Andrew Gubler. He is no tax pro he is just some guy willing to take your last dollar if he needs to.
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This guy is a scam artist. I am 76 years old and fell for his spill and ended up financing 3650 and a total of 4882 with interest thru a 3rd party United Consumer Financial Services. I am still making payments to them to keep from ruining my credit and it has been over 1 1/2 years and nothing has been done. His fall guy is Justin Bettinger who supposively works for Elite Tax Defense and is located in North Carolina. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THEM. I am still paying for something I never received.
Found this about Beau/Ben and Allison/Alyssa from way back in 2015/2106. They are the ones writing the negative reviews both here and Trustpilot, for anyone interested:
I have never had any issues with Andrew. I started going to him over 8 years ago to get my tax debt resolved since then he has been working with me on my ongoing tax filings and his current team at Coastal Tax Partners have been the most professional company I have ever worked with. The person that wrote this initial review "Arete Fin" sounds more like a mad girlfriend or disgruntled employee instead of a customer that had a bad experience. The intimate details into Andrews personal life seems way too involved for the average customer to know. Anyone who has ever had any real experience with Andrew would be able to tell that these are false accusations made by a childish "adult" rather than an actual customer.
Last year my husband and I signed up with Coastal Tax Partners. Not only were they professional but they were in constant communication with us through the whole process. Our tax debt was reduced significantly so we will continue to file our taxes with them. Thank you so much Andrew and his team!
Looking at the OP something isn't adding up. The name is Arete Fin which stands for Arete Financial. Arete Financial is part of the SAME PARENT COMPANY as Coastal Tax Partners. Why would a company write a bad review about itself? It looks like the former manager of those companies was fired and decided to try to sabotage them as payback. Looks like he was fired for a good reason based on this post. The 2 comments after are just dummy emails and friends he's asked to help him with his sabotage. Really sad. Hopefully people do enough research to see how phony this is.
Hi Everyone, I'm the notorious [censored] referenced above. These are fake complaints lodged by the former director, who was fired and replaced by me. He was clearly a bit upset. I was taught never to run from anything and face it head on. If you have concerns or questions regarding this complaint, please contact me directly at [protected]. I'll be happy to explain everything in detail about who this poster is as well as the accompanying comments. Look forward to speaking with you soon, and excited to help you resolve your IRS or state tax issues.
Apparently the site is hiding my phone number which [protected] you can also email me at agubler@elitetaxdefense.com
Perhaps you should sue him for defamation.
Yes this clown is a notorious [censored] with NO TAX CREDENTIALS.
He keeps opening up TAX RELIEF company's in different names.
STAY AWAY
DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS COMPANY. They took $3500 from my mother who is 80 years old and its been 6 months and they haven't done anything. They aren't even licensed to offer tax relief services. Elite Tax Defense is just another name for Andrew Gubler's other failed businesses. IF he was so good why does he have to change business names every year. Anyone who rips off the elderly should get what they deserve.