What I tell my clients who whine about my bill.

[kpangelinan]

Just an aside: Many offices aren't franchises, but are owned and operated by HRB's retail tax subsidiaries. That doesn't imply that prices in those offices are necessarily uniform across the country, or even within a single state.

Didn't know that either.

[snowshine]

Block prices are reasonably consistant within a given region for the corporate-owned offices. The only difference would be that various state returns have different price points and that premium offices are more expensive. Franchises are another story as they cannot charge more than the company stores but can charge much less. Here in WNC, the franchises south and west of us have much lower fees, while north and east are pretty much the same, only more likely to write coupons when needed.

Block released its quarterly statement last week and it showed the effect of losing the RAL business: returns are up but total dollar volume is down. This may be an artifact from the late filing of sCH-A, etc, but may also mean the RAL clients and their expensive EITC forms have chosen somewhere else to file this year. I will be glad when nobody has them and we are all omn an equal footing.

[kpangelinan]

Block prices are reasonably consistant within a given region for the corporate-owned offices. The only difference would be that various state returns have different price points and that premium offices are more expensive. Franchises are another story as they cannot charge more than the company stores but can charge much less. Here in WNC, the franchises south and west of us have much lower fees, while north and east are pretty much the same, only more likely to write coupons when needed.

Block released its quarterly statement last week and it showed the effect of losing the RAL business: returns are up but total dollar volume is down. This may be an artifact from the late filing of sCH-A, etc, but may also mean the RAL clients and their expensive EITC forms have chosen somewhere else to file this year. I will be glad when nobody has them and we are all omn an equal footing.

I'll be glad as well. Their stock hasn't been doing all that great either as just a few months ago, it fell to it's lowest since 1992 (went public in 1980?) is back up to 2001 levels, but still not good.