H&R Block

OK I just had a simple question about deferred retirement so I decided to call these guys. 1. They are not H&R Block. I asked if they do taxes and «yes» they do. I asked them if they could answer a simple question about deferred retirement on my W2 and where do I put this number?! The girl laughed and said «Oh but we don’t do questions if…» and there was a guy screaming «goodbye, goodbye» in the background. These A**holes didn’t listen to me long enough to hear that I would gladly pay for the advise. I guess they don’t need the business!

I have yet to find a «proper» accountant.
It seems like everybody’s got an accountant. For that matter, everybody’s got a lawyer too. «You’ll hear from my lawyer,» is such a common expression it’s become cliché. Well, I don’t have an accountant and I don’t have a lawyer. I haven’t quite figured out at what age they pair you up with a lawyer and an accountant but they never did for me. Maybe that’s when I was living in Europe and somehow they forgot about me.
Anyway, I feel like I *should* have an accountant, but I don’t. Instead I’ve been using H&R Block for the last 5 or 6 years. Perhaps it has to do with my constant moving from place to place and not getting the opportunity to «find» an accountant. Over the last 5 years I’ve lived at 3 different addresses in San Francisco, 1 address in Vallejo and now I’m here in Woodland Hills.
2 years ago I bought a house and last year I got married and we rented our house out. Through it all, H&R Block always finds some way or other to get me a fat refund. I think last year I got $ 9,500 back in taxes. This year, I’m expecting to get $ 13,000 back.
Can you say ‘sweet’? H&R Block totally rocks.