"The H&R Block Tax Stimulus Plan"

WNYC News | Jul 13, 2010

Interesting tidbit, via today's Financial 411 guest Anya Kamenetz: the president's stimulus package contains a huge, unintended boost for tax preparers: a more complicated tax code.

John Hewitt, founder of Jackson-Hewitt, even referred to it as  "the H&R Block and Liberty Tax Stimulus Plan" in an interview with BusinessWeek, and went on to say: "I love it whenever [lawmakers] pass tax changes...This one helps us because there are more tax changes that affect more people than any bill I've ever seen."

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