AG Nixon today announced a lawsuit against JK Harris, a company that offers to help consumers with debt and tax problems. Consumers complaining to our office paid in some cases $4500 to the company to help them with their IRS obligations. In many cases, the customers found them self off in worse financial shape after dealing with JK Harris.

We are also suing a lending company that does business with Harris - Professional Fee Financing Associates.

Two tips on this:

1. If you are in debt, work with a good credit counselor. You can find one here.
2. Before doing business with a company, check with our office to see if there are complaints against it. Use our KnowMO link.

The IRS put out a consumer alert warning of these kinds of companies four years ago.