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Friday, March 30 2012
H&R Block redux
[15:55:56] matt [wronka.org]/Trip Despite importing previous-years returns, H&R Block as again decided to neither register that I'm repaying a first-time homeowners credit nor provide me with a visible way of indicating that I should repay it. Fortunately the IRS is actually very understanding in this regard and didn't charge me extra for fixing the discrepancy before returning my money.
[15:55:56] matt [wronka.org]/Trip Despite importing previous-years returns, H&R Block as again decided to neither register that I'm repaying a first-time homeowners credit nor provide me with a visible way of indicating that I should repay it. Fortunately the IRS is actually very understanding in this regard and didn't charge me extra for fixing the discrepancy before returning my money.
Sunday, February 26 2012
H&R Block
[16:19:28] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay I feel like the quality of the H&R Block on-line tax software has dropped this year.
First, if your page is about to time-out, and click the button to "save and continue", it will extend your session by reloading the current page, which loses all data that you've input--which is very frustrating if the reason you were taking so long is that you had to add lots of values and that work is lost now.
Secondly, it goes through its verification process, and I'm not quite sure what it's doing because it obviously hadn't calculated my mortgage interest deductions. Clicking back into that section and out, even after it said that it verified all fields, resulted in a significant swing from "owe" to "refund". It really makes be doubt whether I can trust it, but at this point my only option is to probably go through everything again by hand.
[16:19:28] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay I feel like the quality of the H&R Block on-line tax software has dropped this year.
First, if your page is about to time-out, and click the button to "save and continue", it will extend your session by reloading the current page, which loses all data that you've input--which is very frustrating if the reason you were taking so long is that you had to add lots of values and that work is lost now.
Secondly, it goes through its verification process, and I'm not quite sure what it's doing because it obviously hadn't calculated my mortgage interest deductions. Clicking back into that section and out, even after it said that it verified all fields, resulted in a significant swing from "owe" to "refund". It really makes be doubt whether I can trust it, but at this point my only option is to probably go through everything again by hand.