Tax franchises

H&R Block announced that for the fiscal 2016 first quarter ended July 31 its total revenues increased $4 million, or 3 percent, to $138 million.

Highlights from some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Liberty Tax Inc. reported a net loss for its fiscal first quarter ended July 31 of $8.5 million, unchanged from the prior year.

The Senate Appropriations Committee is proposing to increase the length of the Schedule EIC for claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit, requiring taxpayers to include much the same information on self-prepared returns that paid tax preparers are required to ask them on the EITC due diligence checklist.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

It’s bound to happen. Your client gets a letter from the IRS—they’re being audited.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.