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H&R Block has a rating of 1.2 stars from 287 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about H&R Block most frequently mention customer service, last year, and tax return problems. H&R Block ranks 74th among Tax Preparation sites.

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 7.1%
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Top Positive Review

“Managing taxes all year”

Vakhid G.
3/9/24

That is a truly impressive solution for managing taxes! I am myself quite a cautious person, trying to comply with all the rules the government imposes, so paying taxes is quite mandatory. With their mobile application, it's very easy to manage taxes, pay them and be an obedient citizen :) It doesn't take a lot of time to sign up, to understand how to interact with the mobile application because the interface is intuitively clear and navigation is very straightofrward. Thanks developers for this service!

Top Critical Review

“Horrible, but better than the competition when you can log in”

Chelsea W.
3/23/24

I filed my taxes with them last year and the experience was much better than with a certain competitor, but this year I couldn't file at all thanks to their two-step verification and lack of customer service. I changed phones (and numbers) since last year and now they won't let me into my account. The "customer service" number sent me an email which led me into the same horrible loop. Despite me having access to the email, entering the verification number, and entering the password, I could not file because I didn't have access to the phone number. This is sooooooooo ridiculous. They've permanently lost a customer because of this idiocy!

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Thumbnail of user tracyd540
North Carolina
1 review
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February 17th, 2022

I have been waiting to file my taxes because I'm being told they don't have a form (8915-f) ready for e-file because irs has not released that form yet but the irs has released it and it can be filed on taxslayer. I'm a little upset that this form isn't ready knowing that tax season was coming and they have more than just me needing this form. I have been a customer for several years now but makes me rethink and just want to do my own.

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Missouri
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June 20th, 2023
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After failing to do my taxes correctly and having them auto rejected from the irs. They then lie to me for months about not being able to see the taxes that have been filed. Then refuse to help resolve this issue and finally refused to give money back after failing to provide the service that I paid for.

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Florida
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March 13th, 2022
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I was a premium customer who always filed physically in their New York location. One year, though I provided all the info to my accountant and paid in time they forgot to submit the taxes. I was heavily charged for late filing by IRS. They promised to pay it…it has been a year and a half since, hundreds of email calls and open cases, and they don't give a …. I wouldn't get close to them if I were you, since they know how to charge but not how to take responsibility for an issue, even if it was caused by them.

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Texas
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April 20th, 2023
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Arnold only wanted to file a simple return and did not care how much I had to pay because of his incompetence. I called him and he stated he would not change my return even though he knew I had other deductions. When asked why? The only answer I got to any questions was I DON'T KNOW. He finally said he had no time to help me and hung up the phone on me. This is the worst case of incompetence. Will never use this rude person or The blockheads at H&R Block ever

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New Mexico
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April 1st, 2021

Absolutely horrible customer service. Don't even try, or waste your time trying call H & R Block customer service. The customer service reps were rude, disrespectful, and don't care about resolving your issue, they will just pass you on to another customer service rep, or put you on hold for 30 minutes to an hour. Do yourself a favor, and do your taxes with any company besides H&R Block.

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Don’t waste your time with H&R Block! There customer service will not help you.

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Just to file my taxes with H&R Block is a nightmare.

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Georgia
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May 13th, 2022

This company's support is laughable and embarrassing! Paid the extra to have live help online, no access to help. Tried to contact after, no help and no refund. Their own link to "provide feedback" doesn't work because they know their service is trash. Scam business for something you can do for free on your own.
Not to mention I never received my tax refund from last year after using their service.

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Don't!

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Thumbnail of user dianew1690
Massachusetts
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January 21st, 2023

Why is it every yr. You go to them to file your taxes the price goes up and up! Its a computor program all they do it put the info. In theres no figuring no anything the computor does it for them! And i paid over $100- more than last year! Its disgusting! Not going there anymore!

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Thumbnail of user sherwood_holly
Michigan
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April 9th, 2023

First a hard pull that stays 2 years regardless if you did it the last year. Second I don't believe they ever give over a couple hundred because I have good credit. Third even though they hold the first payment you have to get on the website and transfer it. This isn't a easy task actually! Don't do it!

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Thumbnail of user davidm5352
Michigan
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May 3rd, 2021

They charged me$ 304.00 for 20 minutes work. Would not recommend to anyone. Price gouging for sure. Always ask for an estimate before you start. I do not know how they get any repeat business. I would have given them 1/2 star if I could.

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Thumbnail of user bobs1722
Idaho
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January 23rd, 2022

File with them every year but no more. They held back the remainder of our child tax credit and when we called to find out why they said they had to charge us to answer the question or we could come in and have them done for around $400. We did them through TurboTax with ease and got our proper refund.

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Kentucky
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March 29th, 2021

Awful interface, good luck getting any help from anyone other than the useless virtual assistant. Despite using them for the past 6 years (because of the convenience of having my info carried forward), they absolutely screwed me this year & there is no way to reach a fkng human to straighten this out. Just did an amended return and can't even print it because every page has the "Client Copy Do Not File" on it. Horrible, frustrating experience. I hope this company fails miserably.

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It's awful. Might as well use any free service.

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New York
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March 10th, 2023

They made a mistake on my taxes and I had to pay back almost $1500.00 from 2021. I was charged interest also. I went to H&R Block to show them their error and I was to have been reimbursed at least for the interest. Well 3 months later and at least 20 calls (no exaggeration) and 4 case numbers - still nothing. Their service is unbearable - total incompetence and the gentleman in the Flatbush Avenue location totally has ignored me and just checked out. Never even responded to emails. This whole thing has been so unprofessional - believe me if you ever need them there is no accountability, no reliability and no caring about the customer. Horribly run business! Use someone else...

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DO NOT USE H&R BLOCK - TERRIBLE, UNPROFESSIONAL, NO PHONE SERVICE/CUSTOMER SERVICE - ALL AUTOMATED

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Thumbnail of user jackc856
Indiana
1 review
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March 22nd, 2021

Horrible product. They hire people off the street in the offices and the online tax products do not work. If your taxes say filed, the Indian customer service line have no idea why it never went through to the IRS. IRS is working on tax software. File your own taxes and save the time and money.

Tip for consumers:
Don't trust this site. You can use the free version but the file directly with the IRS.

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Thumbnail of user lag.thomas1
Michigan
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April 20th, 2023

This is my second year coming to H & R block and my last! I have a small 2 employee business making less than $70,000 a year. These scammers literally harass you into paying the $500 to file taxes. Are you serious? 28th Street location Grand rapids

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Thumbnail of user blancar35
Colorado
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June 15th, 2020

Last year when I used them. I was charged 563.95 i thought what was a lot plus the person said she would give me the $25.00 discount, but never added it in, thanks to her i may never go back to H & R Block. All the reviews here are not good to see, were are all the none greedy H & R people at?

Thumbnail of user samu174
Idaho
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February 14th, 2023

Avoid at all costs,efiled and discovered that
My idaho state tax for some unknown reason was duplicated for north Dakota, I've never been there,never worked there,and didn't fill out a state return for that state.just hoping it doesn't case me problems...

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"Free efile" won't be free if you need help,but they should fix thier mistakes without charge

Thumbnail of user davincismg
North Carolina
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April 18th, 2023

H&R Block's tax service is long and convoluted for no apparent reason. If you have any issues e-filing your taxes and need to start over, it is virtually impossible. I definitely will not be using their service again. Turbo Tax is a faster, more efficient, and more reliable route to e-file your taxes.

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Thumbnail of user meic25
Australia
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July 9th, 2022

Highly not recommend to anyone.
Horrible experience…. It supposed to be a professional phone call appointment for tax return, after most of the time waiting for the staff to learn how to open the files from her college, when half way through process, the staff told me she will call me back as she just have a walked in client to be done first, Have me waited more then an hour for her to call back to get the rest of few questions done.

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Highly not recommended

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Thumbnail of user jefft1034
Indiana
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March 25th, 2023

My husband and I filed our taxes this year through H&R Block online, again, as we have for years. We thought it was strange that we owed for federal and didn't get much back for state. Federal debt + state refund still had us owing $24.

We got a second opinion from another service: freetaxusa.com. We found it through our state's tax website.

$1773 refund.

All of the same info was entered in the same way on the same lines. It was effectively the same tax return but prepared by a different system. That is almost an $1800 difference. Never mind the fact that H&R Block wanted a heft fee to e-file them. It cost me a total of $15 to e-file with the other service, AND we have $1773 coming back now.

What kills me is they've probably been doing this to us for years. I wish I knew how to have past returns checked by another company to see if we got lowballed on those too, if that's even possible.

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Don't.

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Thumbnail of user gruvalcaba24
Nevada
1 review
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April 20th, 2023

Did my taxes online which I just received them and they weren't the amount I was supposed to get, for the past week Ive been on the phone with them because now all of a sudden they are having "technical difficulties" after they told me they made a mistake, had me under a refund advance when i never got one, which they were able to see but now i just keep getting the runaround from everyone and they are refusing to give me my money back after several agents admitted to their mistake! They were only supposed to take $74 for the deluxe fee and the refund transfer fee, but instead they took $1400!

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Thumbnail of user josephw803
Australia
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November 19th, 2020

Over-obsessed with NPS scores by cultivating work-culture of cultivating "creative" tax returns by bending rules and bowing to clients. The so-called "tax consultants" are by large not qualified up to professional level and very often lacks integrity. They always try to bend rules as much as they can in order to please clients at the expense of adding illegitimate deductions.

Thumbnail of user triciae2
Arizona
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April 7th, 2022

I made an appointment with Sade Murphy in Colorado Springs on my lunch break to file taxes for my deceased husband and when I got there the office was closed and no one would answer the phone. Total waste of my time!

Thumbnail of user peters1027
South Carolina
1 review
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April 1st, 2020

The absolute worst. Wanted 120.00 dollars for a simple tax return i. E. 1044ez could not get forms to file because everything is shut down due to virus went to H&R Block to file and got prices from one hundred and ten dollars to over one hundred and eighty dollars. What a crock they are ripping off people who don't have any other way to do the right thing and file there taxes they should be ashamed along with our federal government who recommend these people.

Thumbnail of user jonathank419
Pennsylvania
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January 23rd, 2022

So I did my taxes online. Had them all figured out. Aint been paid in six months fighting with PA UC. I want the tax advance sfter I show her how to do my taxes. I get denied the advance. Nothing like another kick and utter waste of money while im down.

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Thumbnail of user terryg287
North Carolina
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July 7th, 2020

First of all I drop my tax forms off at the end of June. No call for two weeks and it was a very simple tax return which I had actually done last year but decided to have a professional do it this year as sort of a double check.
I called to see if my returns are done and they can't find them. So I go to the office where I see that they are frantically looking for my tax forms which 15 minutes later they find them. They haven't been done yet So she does them in literally five minutes. And charges me $158. I said this is shameful you lost my forms no one contacted me it took no time for you to do this you should give me a discount. After talking to her and their manager there's no money in the bucket for people who came in later to file. This is a shameful way to do business I am on a fixed income making less than $20,000 a year. And let me mention again they lost my forms.
Never again.

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