H&R Block is continuing to attempt to take advantage of the woes faced by Intuit's TurboTax this tax season. The company is offering taxpayers the opportunity the pay half of what they paid another tax preparer last year.
Block had already offered free desktop software to unhappy TurboTax users.

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A Minneapolis, Minn.-based tax preparer has been charged with filing hundreds of phony tax returns and repeatedly failing to file her own income and corporate taxes. Rona Griffin, 52 years old, faces 34 counts of preparing fraudulent tax returns, three counts of filing fraudulent tax returns, seven counts of failing to file income and corporate tax returns, and 8 counts of failing pay corporate and income taxes.