Please read the following:
Chicago
Heights, Ill.: In
mid-February a Liberty Tax preparer pulled a gun on a customer’s boyfriend who
police said threatened to beat him up during a dispute over fees. The
boyfriend, 34, has reportedly been charged with assault after confronting the
preparer over $500 in additional fees that the girlfriend was charged for her
return. Police told reporters the preparer, 45, had a valid firearm owner’s ID.
Kirkwood,
Mo.: A
53-year-old local man is accused of choking an H&R Block worker earlier
this month after reportedly becoming enraged about his “tax situation.” Police
told news outlets that the assailant knocked the Block employee to the ground
and is now charged with misdemeanor assault. The Block worker reported minor
injuries but did not require hospital treatment.
Deerfield
Beach, Fla.: A
bullet narrowly missed the ear of preparer Michelle Merced as she sat in the
office of Dixie Fast Tax in late February. “I wanted [tax season] to be busy
with people, not bullets, coming in,” she told news outlets. The shooting was
connected to a dispute outside her office and police confirmed that Merced and
her staff were not intended targets.
The
incidents come on the heels of reports of gunfire and the beating of a preparer in
the Detroit office of Tax City Tax Service on February 28 by a 19-year-old
local man after the woman he was in the office with couldn’t get her refund in
cash. Four people were shot in the scuffle and the preparer told news outlets
that she plans tighter security when she re-opens her office.
This
is hardly the first season refunds and taxes turned clients and their
companions violent. Two years ago, according to reports, a Toledo, Ohio, woman
and her son robbed and threatened to shoot their Liberty Tax preparer using a
curling iron wrapped in a towel.
LOL where is Jackson Hewitt in this article.
Retried
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