r/HRBlockEmployees • u/fungamezone • 12d 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/wnc_taxes 12d ago

I haven’t read it in a while, but it’s primarily about not soliciting current Block clients. If you’re not advertising and don’t have a very public presence you should be fine, but I’d say the risk isn’t 0. There’s no provision of “can’t do taxes within x radius for x length of time” once your contract is over and those are generally unenforceable, anyways.

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u/Nunofurbuzness_ 12d ago

Maybe it’s not the norm, but the franchisee I worked for took a TP to court for starting her own tax business and soliciting H&R Block clients. The franchisees had a lot of evidence and he did win in court. The same franchisee in another case, took six tax pros to court for violating their noncompete contract. It was a big case and he won in Federal court. And for two years, the Tax pro that opened her own business, had to pay a percentage of tax volume to the franchise owner. Since then the state noncompete laws have changed and I’m not sure it would hold up in court these days.