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Posted By: Bluto In Response To: Re: It gets better!!!! (Michael J McMillan)
Wednesday, 8 February 2006, at 9:39 p.m.
I just thought I'd let you know somehting here.
I used to use HR block, too. Then, 2 years ago I decided to try TurboTax (online). MAN was I happy I did. Not only was HR block costing me money in terms of they fees, but they are terrible at taxes. Turbo Tax is A BUNCH cheaper than HR Block and I usually end up getting money back from the govt or at last owing less.
The last year I used HR block, I went in and had them do my taxes. But I did not take what they did and pay for it just yet. i told them I would be back.
Then I went home and did my own taxes with TurboTax and it was the difference of actually owing money and or getting a refund. Needless to say, I never went back to HR block and have been using TT since. HR cost me from 150 to 250 every year. With TT i never pay more than $40.
When it comes to home business taxes, HR block is clueless, from my experience with them. Last time I went there, the guy taking care of my taxes was insinuating that I might have been cheating on my taxes in the couple years previous to that year. Needless to say I was not happy with him. But when I told him that HR block was the one who did my taxes for me, he was speechless. The guy was an idiot, to say the least. I was gonna speak to his MGR but I did't. I knew that I would never go back there at that point. Even if I did't use TT I would have just tried another tax service like Jackson-Hewitt or some other place. that guy really pissed me off.
Thought you might like to know.
Bluto
> I got my 1099 last week. I work as an independent contractor, or at least
> that's the lie they tell me, so it's a 1099. Now, having gotten it last
> week doesn't necessarily mean I'm ready to march down to H&R Block. Nope,
> got a little bit of troubleshooting to do first. It's like this: My total
> gross was about 48,500 dollars. The line on the 1099 showing this says I
> made-- I am not making this up-- a little over five million dollars. Other
> drivers in the fleet got 1099s saying they made anywhere from three
> million to just slightly under seven million dollars. That's not bad for
> driving a truck, eh? The company says it was a computer glitch and
> corrected 1099s are being sent out. I'm still awaiting the corrected paper
> as I write this.
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