Disturbing Conference Call

[Gretel]

Erchess, you might want to be careful about calling this fraudulent. I just read an very interesting book: The battle for health is over ph. Having low ph levels, which almost every one has, creates and supports a lot of health conditions. Drinking water with a higher ph level will support healing (cancer not excluded), but of course is not enough.

Where I have problems is when people use a strong word like "cancer" and the fear it revokes in most of us to sell something. At a least also some literature information (not from the company) should also be provided so people can go online or buy books to make a good informed decision.

[erchess]

Today a client asked me to join a conference call and since I had nothing pressing to do at that time (He is also a social friend and outside of tax season I call or drop by his house about that time almost every Friday afternoon.) I called in. It turns out that he and the co-owner who is providing most of the money were on the line with (as best I could tell) representatives of a company that wants to sell them water purification systems manufactured by other companies that were not named and that my clients would resell. The claim was made by one of the middlemen that the water from these systems is both more tasty and more healthy than tap water because it has reduced amounts of such things as pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and heavy metals and all that made sense to me. However they also claimed health and taste benefits based on the relatively alkaline PH of the water (between 7 and 7.5) and the 'fact" that the water molecules are compressed so that they are (I think) both smaller and closer together. It was also alleged that drinking this water increases oxygen in t he blood. The speaker said that she could not say that this water cures cancer or any other disease but she said it does flush out impurities from one's system. I really do try to believe that people I run into are honest but these claims strike me as fraudulent.

I may fire this client anyway but what I want to know is whether I risk discipline from the taxing agencies or any other risk to myself and my business from correctly preparing tax returns for a business that makes claims about its products that are false to the point of being criminal.