Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have been using H&R Block as a secondary tax program for years, primarily to check the result of either a professional tax preparer or another well-known tax program as I transitioned to doing my own taxes. This year, for the first time, H&R Block became my primary tax prep program. They have redesigned and streamlined the user interface. It has the cleanest, most intuitive user interface by far. There are very few repetitive questions, you don't have to re-enter data or spend time confirming entries. Help and advice are easy to access and contextually relevant. The organization and program layout makes it easy to switch between guided and user selected entries easily. Using Premier, I have yet to run into a case where I'm asked to upgrade to the next level for additional features. Last year we had employment(W2), self-employment, and investment income, some of which is fairly complex. H&R Block dealt with all of it smoothly and without any hiccups. Although we haven't received all of our investment 1099's yet, I track investment income and expenses carefully during the year. I fill out 1099's manually with the tracked values, then enter the real values as the actual 1099's are received. The manual entry is easy and matches the boxes perfectly. I get a number of different types of 1099's and so far there has been no problem entering any of them. The online retrieval for INT and DIV 1099's has worked well for the limited number that have been available to me so far. Let's face it, no one likes doing taxes. This year's H&R Block tax software makes preparing the forms about as painless as possible. Overall, the new user interface, automated entry, online retrieval, and contextual help make H&R Block the clear winner for tax prep this year.

Over the years I have used several different tax prep softwares, pretty much any well known brand we have used but I have recently settles on H&R Block. It just seems the most user friendly and easy to navigate and understand. The software almost literally holds your hand and walks you through the entire process step by step, question by question — end to the point of helping you even print off copies of your final return. An interesting nugget — you can get an extra 4% of your return back if you choose an Amazon card for part of your refund, though I don’t think I will be doing this. If you are particularly self-employed, or you get a decent amount of money freelancing, this software is perfect for us. One negative: It was quite a hassle to get the program downloaded onto my Mac as it is an .exe file and these don’t install easily onto Macs. Finally, I LOOVE the accuracy/audit review at the end of the return — it is reassuring. Totally head and shoulders above all the other tax programs I have used.

I have used another product for decades and decided to try H&R and was pleasantly surprised. I did have to start from scratch with my information but I prefer that than trying to import to avoid errors. This is a very complete tax program for homeowners with rental property and investments...really very nice software and again very complete.

I have been using H&R Block for at least the past 10 years. It has led me through the process of doing taxes with regular income, business income and rental income. I have been able to depreciate homes, and business equipment. I have also been able to figure out the tax implications of selling my main home and my rental homes. I have also been able to get tax credits for installing solar and getting an electric vehicle. Also, H&R Block makes it easy to figure out State Income Taxes even when you have to file in more than one state. I much prefer H&R Block over Turbo Tax

I got this thinking it would allow me to use HR Block locally on my computer in conjunction with the past decade's-worth of tax filings I've done on HR Block online. First step in the program: "Import your previous year's taxes" - no way to pull what I've done in their own web software. No way to export from HRBO to a format this app understands. In short, if you're looking to go from HRBO -> Local software, don't waste your money. If you want to start completely over w/o cloud backup/storage of your past year's taxes (you'll have to take the output files from this app and keep them safe vs HRB doing it for you with the Online product) then this is the box for you.