"Mark" wrote in :

I know this is off topic, but as I sit here watching the tube as I
catch up on the world's home repair issues, I can't help but wonder -
are there THAT many people that are so poor they need to pay H&R Block
or some other store-front tax preparer the outlandish fees to get
their tax return a week or two earlier? With E-file they say you'll
get it in about a week.

Besides, it seems pretty clear that if you are getting $2,600 back you
probably should reduce your withholdings

Refundable credits. Credits for pumping out kids. Credits for doing a
little work...but careful...not too much or you won't get the credit. I
did taxes for a year. Like 160 of them. It's sickning. People coming in
and having paid in a grand in takes then they "get's a chek" for like 5k
(I'm not ****tin'!!!) due to refundable credits. It's free money to them
so they don't care if HR Crock gets a couple of C notes of it.

and bring home that extra
$216 each month rather than sending it to Uncle Sam and letting him
use it interest free for a year.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming................