Originally Posted by rrgg

Not true.

If you use the card for a point-of-purchase debit without pressing credit, you get miles. People have already reported this on other threads, for example when purchasing money orders at the post office (where the post office doesn't even allow it to be processed as a credit). You do not get miles when withdrawing cash.


As I said, the Aadvantage Debit Card gives you one mile per dollar on this transaction. Therefore I get miles for my tax payment without the convenience fee.

That's "what is so wonderful" about it.

If you'd rather have the float on a check payment, then fine, but it's not much of a float. In my experience the IRS cashes the check pretty fast.

As I said, through H&R Block's offer you get miles and pay no convenience fee. That is really the fee at issue here. Nevertheless, the potential other fees are (1) loss of float on a check (2) annual fee for the debit card if you don't already have it and (3) cost of H&R Tax Software if you do your taxes by hand. You can decide yourself if those are worth the miles.

As a side note, Citizens Bank also has a reward program on their debit cards, but I don't think it's for miles.