Client Reviews of Durenda D. Sharp

Avoid tax preparation business with Dee (Durenda) Sharp in Mustang, Oklahoma! When Dee is questioned with unreasonably high pricing, her response is "You Get What You Pay For" even though she took 28 days to finish one year of taxes for our micro small business with no employees (4-8 hours of work total). I had already done the weeks of work to prep a 40 page spreadsheet and complete the totals so that the process was smooth as possible for her. The fact that this is a pandemic and Dee knew our business was hit hard with the shutdown and she still price gauged us on top of it all is a testament to who she is as a person lacking empathy and lacking a moral compass to do what’s right by other people. I hope to help just one family out by reading this to avoid the level of stress and frustration this has caused my family. To make matters worse, Dee was completely unconcerned with it being a pandemic and our need to file quickly for our stimulus checks. She did not clearly state that it would take her a month to do this once all info was in her hands or we would have gone elsewhere. She did not clearly state her rate in total dollars terms either verbally or in writing or we would have balked and gone elsewhere. Dee will take your documents and hold them as ransom and force you to pay any amount she decides sounds good for her wallet. She says her rates are non-negotiable and flat out refuses to acknowledge, apologize, take responsibility, or adjust her rate for an inexcusable three weeks of her ghosting and not completing her work. She will come up with one or two things to ask you about weeks after her job should have been done and then tell you over and over that she has been waiting on YOU! This is clearly gaslighting her clients and it’s a premeditated holding of your property. I’m certain that not disclosing rates and then doubling fees while holding documents as collateral is ethical business practice. I would not wish this experience (especially during a pandemic) on anyone! From April 30th to May 3rd, I sent Dee all of the documents needed to finish one year of taxes. It should have only taken her a matter of a few hours to get my taxes done. At every turn, my questions went unanswered, Dee was condescending, and she purposefully kept me in the dark on the proper way to do this instead of telling me how to best prepare them for her needs. Over and over, Dee kept telling me that she was waiting on me, even though my turnaround time was 1-2 days and hers was weeks on end with zero remorse or acknowledgement. May 3rd through May 8th would have been a reasonable expectation of time for Dee to have completed my filing. She ghosted and zero communication happened. When I finally did message her on Friday May 8th, she was at the lake for the weekend. I even wrote her days after receiving no response to my May 3rd email questions and told her I wanted to get my documents back and go elsewhere. She ignored that message and continued to tell me she was completing my filing. I did not have a choice as I had trusted her with the only original copies of my property. She asked me to clarify some of my items and I promptly did so. On the 14th, she texted that she was finishing up my taxes. Two weeks went by with her ghosting again and not even as much as a text or call to touch base. When I tracked her down yet again on the 27th, her computer was broken. Finally, on the 29th of May, almost a month from when I first sent all of the info for her to complete my filing, she said the taxes were ready and she was charging $595! We had not previously discussed pricing as I am friends with her family member and my understanding was that I was being so patient with her because of a family connection and good faith arrangement. Instead, her rate was more than double what we have EVER paid a tax preparer for this same job with this same business over a decade of working with various people. I was shocke

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