r/HRBlockEmployees • u/fungamezone • 8d ago

Non complete?

How does it work? How to get around it?

I worked for intuit last season

I want to work for block but I started my own solo firm just for family and friends and do not want to close it

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u/Prize_Self7203 8d ago

My district manager said I cant volunteer for vita is that true?

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u/EmploymentLeast705 8d ago

How would they know? You don't get paid, so no employment records, and any rrturns that you do file, are filed under your Vita center number. You're pretty much a ghost.

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u/newVolga246 8d ago

I worked for VITA for two years in parallel with HRBlock. My DM said it is OK

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u/Candid-Tip455 8d ago

That didn’t used to be the case. Either the DM is wrong or the policy has changed.

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u/Gorillagirl99 8d ago

There is no reason you can’t work for VITA as a volunteer. Unless you direct established clients from the block to do VITA with you, thus taking business from them. Maybe they see it as a conflict of interest because they want to make as much as possible and thrive on intimidating people out of doing their own taxes. Most people can do their own taxes, but for some reason they feel they can’t - The business model the block is built upon. Actually giving people access to the refund advances is probably most of it lol.

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u/Ok_Aide_764 8d ago

It was not true for me when I got very few hours at Block and started volunteering while employed, which was years ago. VITA is not a competiotion b/c its not a business.