Performant Financial Corporation Debt Collection Complaint

Performant Financial Corporation Debt collection department,

Other (i.e. phone, health club, etc.) Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed Debt was paid New Mexico

-/-/- the N.M. Dept. of Taxation notified me that I owed state taxes for -/-/- in the amount of $3500.00 and that the account had been assigned to a collection agency. I contacted the collection agency called Performant Recovery and made arrangements to pay $100.00 per month on one of my bank credit cards beginning -/-/-. I agreed to pay this until I could investigate the allegations and so that the collection agency would not contact the credit bureau and damage my credit. I knew that the alleged amount owed was drastically wrong because my earnings from my work for the entire year was only around $75000.00. I hired a C.P.A. and together we did my -/-/- state tax forms again : I owed $260.00! Also, -/-/- I had called the N.M. State Taxation department and was frequently in contact with an employee there who was handling my account. I sent the N.M. State Personal Income Tax


and reimburse me the overpayments that I made. Also, I called the Performant Recover company several times and was left " holding '' for 20-30 minutes every time without ever speaking to a human being. I then left messages about stopping the monthly charges. However, they never stopped charging my bank credit card even at this writing! Phone calls to the N.M. State Taxation and Revenue Dept. were never returned and the woman who had handled my account was sent to a different department. The new person never returned my calls or contacted me in any way. My bank fined me late charges for not paying the $100.00 bill per month and I filed complaints with the bank ; but Performant Recovery kept charging my credit card and still is. They are sending threatening letters to me about what they are calling a " delinquent account '' for a balance of $2600.00 when I owed the state of N.M. only $260.00.! They need to be stopped and they need to reimburse me for all the overpayments!