H&R Block Customers Hit With Hours of Outages Ahead of Tax Day Deadline

The company says it was aware of an issue preventing some desktop software users from e-filing their returns but it has since been resolved.
H&R Block Customers Hit With Hours of Outages Ahead of Tax Day Deadline
A man holding a sign advertising a tax preparation office in Miami, Fla., on April 14, 2010. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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American tax preparation company H&R Block has reported some of its desktop software customers were left dealing with an outage and unable to e-file their returns for several hours ahead of the looming Tax Day deadline on April 15.

According to Downdetector, an online platform that gives users real-time information about the status of websites, apparent outages for H&R Block’s desktop e-filing tax filing software began around 9 p.m. on Sunday, arising during the night.
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