H&R Block's online tax preparation platform (sometimes
referred to as H&R Block at Home) is a spin-off from H&R Block's
long-standing retail tax preparation business (11,000 offices throughout the US
- wild!). Without a doubt, if you live in the United States, it's hard to NOT
see an H&R Block office in your town.
2012 – 2013 H&R Block Online Options and Pricing
Shown below is the overall pricing for the various options
on offer by H&R Block that pops up when you first visit their website. In
my opinion, as was the case with TurboTax, this table shows a nice overview of
the options and is pretty self explanatory/clear for normal folks like us.
There are four things that I want to make sure to point out though:
You don't actually
pay for anything until you officially click "file taxes." This means
you can go through the system and fill in your tax information without worrying
about accidentally paying for anything until the very end of the process.
The prices in bold
shown in the below screenshot are only the pricing for filing your federal tax
return. What this means is that you will have to pay an extra fee on top of the
ones shown in the chart below because you are required by law to file state
taxes. Don't be surprised by this!
According to
H&R Block's State Tax filing pricing, it costs $28-$35 (price depends on
current promos going on) per state to file your state taxes.
What this
means is that the state tax filing is perhaps where H&R Block makes most of
its money.....?
One of the nice
little perks about the paid versions of H&R Block is that they will
automatically save and import your previous year's tax information to the
current year. They will also auto-populate your employer details based on
solely their EIN. Nice things to have, but maybe not necessarily worth paying
for if you are pressed for money..
Finally, it's a
little confusing in reading the chart below, but if you have a self-employment
business/income (including farm business) to report, the only option available
through H&R Block is the $50 Premium version (please note, this is not
necessarily the same thing as merely having a 1099-MISC from some random side
income you did - more on this will be discussed below in the Income section).
E files your Nebraska
Taxes 2013 & Get Nevada
Taxes 2013
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