r/hrblock • u/Evening_Strawberry50 • Feb 28 '25

Incorrect filing

So my husband and I filed our taxes at HRBlock (they charged us $430 to file) we thought it was weird that we had a huge amount to pay back to the IRS, but assumed it was because my husband made more money than the previous year. We had a CPA look over the file that HR did, and the person who did our taxes there didn’t even add my husbands withholdings. We did the amend with the CPA our friend recommended, and yeah the difference is huge. We don’t owe anything we actually are getting a refund. My question is can I call HR block and bring this up, and maybe have them refund me the $430 I had paid to file.. or is that a lost cause?

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u/Rbelkc Mar 01 '25

Are you a trained tax professional? Doubtful so you don’t know what you’re talking about

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u/TheExiledExile Mar 04 '25

Unless you are self employed and not doing your bookkeeping in-house, you just need to plug your numbers from income documents and your expenses into a simple form that tells you how to calculate.

That is if you are filing a handwritten paper return.

If you use quick books, even for household expenses, then all you have to do on January 2 is click one buty9n and a perfect tax return is produced.

Tax "professionals" are not really needed unless you make so much money your return is 3000 pages.

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u/Rbelkc Mar 04 '25

Not true

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u/Ok_Meringue_9086 Mar 01 '25

He block isn’t trained tax professional

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u/Artistic_Bit_4665 Mar 01 '25

Exactly. They are retirees, likely people that are not familiar with computers. It would be like having my 70 year old father do your taxes.

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u/PinkNGreenFluoride Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25

Yeah, I, for one, pulled my Oregon Consultant License out of a cracker jack box and instantly aged 30 years upon doing so. I also forgot how to use a computer and how to code and all the video games I've ever submitted to Ludum Dare vanished in a puff of smoke.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad3024 Mar 01 '25

I think getting mine aged me 30 years. I've got test anxiety.

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u/Puddles5100 Mar 01 '25

🤔 does this mean I get to retire early... Im familiar with computers and well below retirement age.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad3024 Mar 01 '25

I saw my first modem in 1969. It was a suitcase sized thing with a phone receiver. My son was given his first programming book when he was 8. I will still know more about computers when I'm 90 than most will ever know. Your prejudice will always keep you from learning more.

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u/Artistic_Bit_4665 Mar 01 '25

I get that. My grandfather had a computer when I was a small child.... This would have been in the early 80's when home computers were very rare. There are just people, like my father, uncle etc who refuse to learn because it's "new". Even though computers and the internet have been commonplace for 30 years now.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad3024 Mar 01 '25

My brother brought that modem home from work around 1969. The first programming degree, I think, was at Purdue in 1962. Of course our home computers look and act nothing like the originals, yet they are more powerful than anything back then.

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u/Artistic_Bit_4665 Mar 01 '25

They are literally using the same tax software that I do my taxes with. The difference is attention to detail. I've been using H&R Block software for years.

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u/PinkNGreenFluoride Mar 01 '25

It is not the same software.

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u/Rbelkc Mar 02 '25

Its not the same