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    Business ProfileforGardner & Thomas LLC

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    Customer Reviews

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    Customer Complaints

    1 complaints closed in last 3 years

    0 complaints closed in last 12 months

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    Business Details

    Location of This Business
    3431 Magic Oak Ln, Sarasota, FL 34232
    BBB File Opened:
    2/12/2023
    Years in Business:
    5
    Business Started:
    8/15/2018
    Licensing Information:
    This business is in an industry that may require professional licensing, bonding or registration. BBB encourages you to check with the appropriate agency to be certain any requirements are currently being met.
    BBB records show a license number of AC37412 for this business, issued by Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation

    These agencies may include:

    Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation

    2601 Blairstone Rd

    Tallahassee FL 32399

    (850) 487-1395

    http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/

    Type of Entity:
    Limited Liability Company (LLC)
    Business Management
    • Mr. Thomas Thomas Jr., Manager
    • Kimeth Gardner, Manager
    Contact Information

    Principal

    • Mr. Thomas Thomas Jr., Manager

    Customer Contact

    • Mr. Thomas Thomas Jr., Manager
    Additional Contact Information

    Fax Numbers

    • (941) 229-2391
      Primary Fax

    Customer Complaints

    1 Customer Complaints

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    Most Recent Customer Complaint

    02/14/2023

    Complaint Type:
    Product Issues
    Status:
    Unanswered
    On 2-1-22 I met with Gardner & Thomas CPAs, we agreed that they would take over my business accounting, book-keeping, payroll and personal and business tax prep. They advised me they would let me know what the monthly fee is once they figure it out exactly. On 2-23-22 I received notification by text that ADP was set up and ready to process payroll, this was started on 2-25-22. On 4-10-22 I found a journal entry called owner distribution in the amount of $2477.67 created by Gardner & Thomas, I have been unable to obtain an explanation for this. On 5-7-22 my employee received a paycheck for $79.97, the paycheck should have been for $654.27. The following week my employee received the correct paycheck via direct deposit twice. On 5-27-22 I received *** notification that Gardner& Thomas failed to file/pay the 941 for Q1 22. On 6-1-22 Thomas and Gardner advised me to ask the employee to write a personal check to return the duplicate paycheck. On 6-10-22 I paid the taxes to the *** for missing 941 for Q1 '22. On 6-14-22 Gardner & Thomas notified me after they had already applied to use my personal one-time penalty abatement with the ***.On 6-15-22 I notified Gardner & Thomas by email and text that their services were no longer needed for bookkeeping or payroll. During the process of getting set up to do my own payroll I discovered that Gardner & Thomas had added themselves as a **** employee on my payroll, without my knowledge or permission. On 1-18-23 I received incorrect W2s for all the employees. On 2-6-23 I called ADP regarding the incorrect W2, was told I have no access as per Gardner & Thomas instructions. On 2-9-23 I picked up my paperwork to file the personal '21 taxes as ********************************************* have ignored multiple requests to have these completed. Filed with my K1, was the personal and private financial data of a different person. I found in my corporate filing an entry for $1609 for a distribution. I have not received a distribution in this amount.

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