Before I went to this H and R Block I had never been to a tax place. Normally I did my taxes by myself using turbo tax. This year however, my situation was different. My fiance lived in MI for part of the year, moved to CT where she lived the other part of the year while working MA AND had a rental property in MI. We attempted to do her taxes via turbo tax, but it was a nightmare, so we went to H and R block on Hazard AVE. THANK GOD we did.
Yes, it ended up being significantly more money than it cost to file your taxes on turbo tax. BUT, the guidance given by our agent (Lila, whom I cannot say enough good things about), actually doubled our federal tax return (as it was when we did it by ourselves on turbo tax), made us break even in 1 state (on turbo tax we had to pay), gave us a small return from another state (we broke even on turbo tax) and had to pay a city tax in the other (this was so complicated on turbo tax that we couldnt even do it ourselves.)
Lila, our agent, tried her hardest to find every single possible deduction she could, while trying to make our H and R block fee the lowest, to the point of where hse spent about an hour trying to not file my fiance as a small business because it would have cost us 150 dollars extra if she did so.
If you have a 1 state return, i suggest going with turbo tax. It worked for me for years. But if you have a complicated return, absolutely go to this location if it is near you. Our agent was wonderful and our taxes were actually so complicated she consulted with 2 other agents who were happy to take time out to help.
It is worth the money if you can spend it and if your taxes are not as straight forward as they had once been. read more