Tax franchises

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

H&R Block is testing new technology that uses Facebook’s Oculus virtual reality equipment to provide avatars of tax preparers for customers of the future.

Chuck McCabe, president of Peoples Income Tax and The Income Tax School, has some suggestions for independent preparers to stay on the “cutting edge” during the summer.

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

H&R Block is looking for accountants, bookkeepers and salespeople to join its recently launched Block Small Business service.

Jackson Hewitt Tax Service reported the best results it has seen in over five years this tax season, in contrast with competing tax prep chains H&R Block and Liberty Tax.

Tax prep, bookkeeping and payroll services company and franchiser ATAX recently announced plans to double its U.S. presence over the next 20 months.

Major tax prep chains Liberty Tax Inc. and H&R Block reported that the number of returns they prepared this tax season were flat or down slightly.

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

H&R Block said Monday that two-thirds of tax filers among its client base who received health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act via the state or federal insurance marketplaces had to pay back an average of $729 of the Advance Premium Tax Credit, cutting their potential refund by nearly one-third.

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

A new tax prep franchiser called Happy Tax is hoping to make a dent in an already crowded industry with a new business model involving CPAs.

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.

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen met with the heads of some of the major tax software companies, tax preparation chains, state tax commissioners and other officials in an effort to combat the growing problem identity theft and tax fraud.

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

Taxpayers are willing to go through more steps when preparing their tax returns, such as confirming their identifications and proving additional documentation, if it can help combat tax fraud and identity theft, according to a new survey.

Nearly half of all American adults believe that the deadline to register for 2015 health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act has expired, a new survey has found.

The owner of several Liberty Tax Service franchises has been arrested after he was caught by police in the act of trying to drown his baby in a sink after brutally assaulting his wife.

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