{"id":9,"date":"2010-04-21T03:21:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T11:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sohotaxtips.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2010-04-21T03:21:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T11:21:25","slug":"tax-season-sales-are-down-for-tax-preparation-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tchouse.com\/services\/tax-season-sales-are-down-for-tax-preparation-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax season sales are down for tax preparation services"},"content":{"rendered":"<img style='float: left; margin-right: 10px; border: none;' src='http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar.php?gravatar_id=06f487349ca5db61fc949fa0d9ba3e4e&amp;default=http:\/\/www.tchouse.com\/images_ori\/tchsIcon.jpg' alt='No Gravatar' width=40 height=40\/><div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/twitter.com\/share');\"  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"TCHouse\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/tchouse.com\/services\/tax-season-sales-are-down-for-tax-preparation-services\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/sohotaxtips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/logoReuters.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/sohotaxtips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/logoReuters.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-9];player=img;\" title=\"logoReuters\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-590\" title=\"logoReuters\" src=\"http:\/\/sohotaxtips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/logoReuters.jpg\" alt=\"Reuters News\" width=\"186\" height=\"46\" \/><\/a>According to a Reuters News Release, H&amp;R Block and Jackson Hewitt Tax Service sales dropped this tax season. The largest tax service, H&amp;R Block Inc. (NYSE: HRB)\u00a0based in Kansas City, MO, US with offices in the US, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, reported a 5% drop in the number of tax returns filed for the 2009 tax year. \u00a0The tax service giant and its chief competitor, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service (NYSE: JTX) located in Norfolk, VA, US continue to lose market shares to online software like Turbo Tax. \u00a0Jackson Hewitt, with over 5,000 franchises in the US, was founded by John Hewitt, a former Block employee, in 1982. \u00a0Turbo Tax is the tax preparation software product of Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU) headquartered in Mountain View, CA, US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Reuters News Release, H&#038;R Block and Jackson Hewitt Tax Service sales dropped this tax season. The largest tax service, H&#038;R Block Inc. (NYSE: HRB) based in Kansas City, MO, US with offices in the US, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, reported a 5 drop in the number of tax returns filed for the 2009 tax year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-changes","category-8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1OFQh-9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tchouse.com\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tchouse.com\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tchouse.com\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tchouse.com\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tchouse.com\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tchouse.com\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tchouse.com\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tchouse.com\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tchouse.com\/services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}