RHB / Eric:
See below from Markus. We need to discuss and have a plan of
action in place to deal with this.
Marc X. LoPresti, Esq.
Tagliaferro & LoPresti, LLP
45 Broadway,
(212) 732-4029
(212) 232-2398 (fax)
(310) 312-1860
(310) 445-1866
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From: Markus Karr
[mailto:Mk@Paradigm-ny.com]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 12:51
PM
To: Marc LoPrexi
Subject: corp taxes
Marc: I have paid all outstanding invoices for the
corporate entities ($3679) and I have agreed to pay a flat fee of $5000 for
completion of the 2008 corp taxes. The bulk of most of these amts
represents back-and-forth with the ownership tax people, not to mention
previously paid retainers which were also eaten up by this phenomenon.
This email serves as my official notification to ownership
that I will no longer take any responsibility for corporate tax filings.
I will not pay another cent and I wash my hands of it. The last straw was
my sending 2008 drafts to Rick Rowland on Jan 11th and it falling
into a black hole until last week. There was a real shot at being able to
complete 2009 by April 15th and finally getting back on schedule
that was wasted.
In my opinion ownership would be insane not to use Arthur
Bell for tax prep, at least in an advisory capacity, for tax years 2009 and
2010 (which hopefully will be the last necessary filing). The corporate
structure and history is too complex to inject someone else at this late
stage. But they are not going to do any work on 2009 until an agreement
is reached on how they are going to get paid.
Regards,
Markus Karr
PARADIGM