H&R Block
Free No-Frills Tax Prep Software From H&R Block
H&R Block is offering Tax Cut Basic federal tax preparation software to directly compete with TurboTax. It’s free, for a price.
Avoid Tax Refund Anticipation Loans
- Some of America’s most cash-strapped taxpayers – those from low- and moderate-income families – spent nearly $1 billion in the latest year recorded for what is almost always an unnecessary product: the so-called “refund anticipation loan” at income tax time. With another tax season gearing up, consumer advocates at the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) and Consumer Federation of America (CFA) are warning taxpayers to steer clear of refund anticipation loans (RALs), one of the most avoidable tax-time expenses. New figures reveal that RALs drained about $960 million in loan fees, plus over $100 million in other fees, from the wallets of nearly 9.6 million American taxpayers in 2005. “Taxpayers can save themselves over a billion dollars by just saying ‘no’ to quick tax refund loans,” says NCLC staff attorney Chi Chi Wu. “These loans take a chunk out of your hard earned tax refund, and they expose you to the risk of unmanageable debt if your refund doesn’t arrive as expected.”
TRA’s are bad! Just say no.—MEGHANN MARCO
H&R Block’s Freudian Slip
The Consumerist has its fair share of typos, but at least we don’t make them in a fixed medium.
Two Free Tax Tools: DeductionPro and OrganizIT
Thanks to H&R Block, today is National Tax Advice day, and they’re offering two free tax prep tools.
H&R Block Leaves Guy With $3100 Bill
guarantee”, so Travis will be responsible for the bill. Whoops. H&R Block’s included “Accurate Calculations Guarantee” covers “penalties and interest caused by such error.”
Oxymoronically, H&R Block Teaches Tax Classes
With $174 and 11 weeks, H&R Block will teach you to fuck up tax returns like the pros.
H&R Block Snuffs Tax Efficiency
If your mind has folded in on itself like a Chinese Puzzle Box trying to grok the convolution of this year’s tax forms, we have good news: the IRS bureaucracy wants to make the process as efficient as possible. Unfortunately, the guys you pay to do your taxes don’t… and they’ve successfully lobbied to continue their monopoly on their obtuse arbitration of your income.
H&R Block Execs Gave IRA Fraud Big Hug, Spitzer Says
The cock just keeps rocking at the H&R Block terrordome.
H&R Block Sells User’s Info to Spammers?
Cior used H&R Block’s online service on April 9th to do her taxes and everything went just hunky-dory, except for one, small, dangling modifer:
The One H&R Block That Doesn’t Suck
Yes, Virginia, there is one good H&R Block store out there.
H&R Block Bollocks
H&R Block sucks bricks. They suckle upon cinder blocks so hard that even though we’ve never actually transacted there, but after hearing story upon story of their ineptitude, we just had to give their store the finger as we drove by this weekend.
Poll: How You’re Doing Taxes
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No-Name Tax Site Superior to H&R Block
John writes that he followed one of those free e-file links on the IRS website and clicked on H&R Block, because it was the only name he knew. After his mother’s passing, he had a little death benefits from IRAs and such.
Avoid H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt, Says Accountant
If you haven’t done your taxes, don’t go to H&R Block or Jackson Hewitt. That’s the advice we receive from Peter, a professional accountant. He says they will rip you off. And if they mess up, they’re not liable.
H&R Cock Blocked
Last week Intuit, makers of Turbo Tax, sued H&R Block for mimicking its advertising campaign. Block’s ad “copies the physical appearance, dress and mannerisms of the characters in the TurboTax ad, as well as the set, staging and pace of the advertisement,” said Intuit in a statement.
