Originally Posted by rrgg
You are mistaken.
Regardless of the inaccuracies of the NYT article, they were correct about the debit card offer. I already confirmed it. Through this H&R Block software offer, you could use pay1040 to put taxes on your debit card and the convenience fee would be waived. If it's offered in 2007, I will definitely switch to H&R Block.
I don't know why you think it's so hard to believe. H&R offered a gift to help win over customers from TaxAct and TurboTax.
Edited to add: Maybe H&R had a limit on the fee-free payment. I didn't ask, but it would address your "perpetual motion" statement.
If H&R Block is eating the cost to win over customers, fine. But what is so wonderful about paying with a debit card? Don't you have to have the money there in your account at the time you pay, so you don't even get the float the comes with a check payment, as well as the record of payment a check gives. With H&R Block or anyone else, DO YOU GET MILES AND PAY NO FEE ("Tax Payment
Bonus Thread", and this is the Miles Buzz forum)? If there really is such an offer out there, that is one gives miles and takes no "vigorish," then that in my view would be the equivalent of a perpetual motion machine.
And note, my focus wasn't the minor inaccuracies in the NYT (e.g., 25K for a domestic saver ticket), but the superficiality of the advice offered.