H&R Block ad re Obamacare

[LCP]

You've seen it .... the lady claims she read all 900 pages and she's gonna tell all her clients all they need to know.

I call BS ....we have some H&R Block people here don't we...any comments?

[JohnH]

Sorry, no comments allowed until you've read all 900 pages.

But Ana Maria has clearly disqualified herself from ever holding public office. You can't be reading the stuff before you vote on it - that's against some sort of rule in Washington.

[JoshinNC]

I read all of it

Didn't understand all of it, but I have read it all. Front to back.

[thomtax]

My thoughts when I see that big smile while stupidly bragging about reading the whole thing - So what? Do you know anything about filing a tax return?

LT

[FEDUKE404]

Smoke and mirrors

My thoughts when I see that big smile while stupidly bragging about reading the whole thing - So what? Do you know anything about filing a tax return?

LT

My thoughts exactly. With all due respect to the Block members of this board, it is merely a marketing gimmick. Stated in a different way, are there really that many things in Obamacare that actually have any effect on calendar year 2012 taxes?!?

Consider their "let us look over your prior returns for errors" come on, followed by countless stories of how they "found" new deductions resulting in huge refunds. Perhaps. But OTOH they can look over my client returns until the cows come home, and I seriously doubt they would have anything of substance to "correct."

Of course, Block is not alone in its advertising. J-H and Liberty pull similar tricks. The January tax market is entirely different from the March/April tax market, and they all just want to get you in the door by whatever means it takes to do so.

FE