All Americans must file their taxes before the deadline in just a few days (Wednesday, April 15 for those who have forgotten). Many of you may have already completed your 2008 taxes well ahead of the deadline and are either enjoying your return, or struggling to save after having to pay. For the rest of you, however, you may be scrambling to pull all of your documents together, planning on heading to an accounting firm like H&R Block and squeaking in just before the cut off. As a result of tax preparation procrastination, it’s a commonly known that tax season is one of those hair-pulling times for accountants or is it? We took a peek inside H&R Block to see what employees really think come tax time.
In 2008, H&R Block worked with 23.5 million individuals on their taxes-many of these going into the more than 13,000 retail offices currently available across the U.S. But for all the effort put into these tax returns, we found that the payout for the individuals working in these offices is between $5 – $11 per hour which is just above minimum wage. (This is less than what Mac Geniuses and Geek Squad employees make to fix ...
