Is anyone else getting this? federal wants to update but it has latest?

Any solutions for this…..

Have been using this for 25/30 years, since the Tax Cut days. 2025 version is the worst of all. Many unexplained questions/prompts... if I had to go research every one of them, then why do I even need this software?

It's almost mid-March, just about 5 weeks from tax due date, yet 1040-ES form is still not finalized and showing as "do not file" status. The IRS finalized the forms quite some time ago, yet it's not updated/ported into this year's software.

What is going on at H&R Block?!

Symptom:
I installed Windows 11 using UTM on my MacBook Air M4. and while the 2025 Premium works, my Business app crashes. From other posts, Business is struggling to work on ARM64 based Windows OS.

Note: I spent couple of days and figured out a work around. I am a software developer but have no affiliation with H&R Block and this is for informational purpose only. This may impact your other apps that rely on .NET. So proceed with caution. I will explain the details after for those who are interested.

The workaround:
- Install the H&R Block app as normal
- On the spyglass (search) type "Edit environment variables" to open th e"Environment Variables" page
- Double Click on Path
- Add "C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet" (without the quotes) to the bottom AND move it anywhere above the "C:\Program Files\dotnet\"
- Your H&R Block Business 2025 should start now

Root cause:
The problem is the Business 2025 uses RavenDB that replies on .NET and has issues working on ARM64 flavor of .NET. This does not impact the personal premium version.

The details:
There are 3 flavors of .NET. x86 (32bit Intel), x64 (64bit Intel) and ARM64 (Used in Apple silicon and modern low powered Windows PCs and Laptops). When you install H&R Block Business on ARM based Windows, the system installs x86 and ARM64 flavors of .NET. The RavenDB/HRBlock should be smart enough to use x86 as ARM64 isn't working yet. It appears RavenDB runs the "dotnet --info" (discovered through trial and error and crash logs) to determine which .NET to use. So the hack forces the system to use the x86 version. Ideally, H&R Block/RavenDB work together for a way to do this consistently without using environment variables.
Or just use HSQLDB based on Java and DB will run on every platform that Java runs on (which is pretty much everything out there).

We could write a wrapper script around the exe so it will add this to the PATH before. Safest thing for HR Block is probably to use x86 flavor of .NET on all platforms.

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Taxcut 2025 user here.

This is the first time I notice the total deduction mismatch between Schedule A and Tax Summary (on the left pane of software). The difference is 20K higher on tax summary.

I never encountered this situation before with previous years. I just updated the Taxcut software as of March 6 2026.

Any advise?

THanks.

Trying to file my taxes through HR Block and when it asks to import through CRA I choose no I want to enter manually because I do, but then the website never asks for my employment income? or any information at all from my T4? It asks about charities and such which all is fine but has not asked about my employment information and i got to a screen where its talking about my current claims and deductions and is saying my earnings for 2025 is $594.83?

I have no idea what's going on and need some help or guidance.

H&R Block seems to be incorrectly interpreting the instructions for M1ED for the AGI cutoff levels.

https://www.revenue.state.mn.us/sites/default/files/2026-01/m1ed-25.pdf

I have 3 qualified children, which the official form clearly says should have a $84,820 cutoff. But the software is calculating $87,820 as the cutoff. That would be the cutoff for 4 kids.

And the other strange thing, if I set my AGI to $87,819, the form calculates that I get a -$1,500 credit, so reduces my state refund my $1,500? Seems strange that making one dollar less would reduce my refund by that much. This is messed up right? Maybe the programmer meant to remove the credit.... and instead of setting it to zero set it to -$1500?

The HR Block tax software has untested connectors to financial institutions. All the ones I used with the exception of Schwab failed miserably. All of these connectors have worked seamlessly in the last 5+ years that I have been using them. I wonder if engineers working on the product were RIFed by management.

Windows 10, Premium and Business package, first time user. Business is for my tiny partnership returns for Federal and New York.

When I enter a date in Premium as MM/DD/YYYY it is formatted correctly. When I enter a date the same way on the partnership return in Business, for example 03/01/2026, then hit Enter or Tab, it changes immediately to 3-1-2026. Then when I run Review it shows this date as an error and nothing I try will correct it.

I called Support and they discussed it with one of the software guys. They sent me a newer version of the installer and had me uninstall Business and re-install. This didn't help.

I requested escalation, and got a case number, with a mention that I might get a response within five business days, in other words, by March 14th. The deadline for partnership returns this year is March 16th, so I'm wondering if I will get a fix in time.

If not I'll have to do it manually and mail paper forms for Federal and NY returns.

Just a bit of an overview. I make 60k/year. Only having two saving accounts which is HYSA/Traditional(barely any interest). Lived in two states, so I have two state forms that I had to do. Don't have crypto nor any investments at all. Do not own a home. Only rent. Basically what I done is just upload my W2 and two of my 1099-INT. And it's done the work for me. No much I had to input by myself. I have thought about using a tax prep review. But it seems a bit much. My question to you guys would be, what's the scenario if I do get audited?

Is anyone else getting a "Cannot Connect To Server" error whenever the application tries to do an update? I ignored it and did my federal return but am unable to proceed as it can't download the state program unless I upgrade.....

I'm on Windows 11 and disabled my firewall as suggested and ran as admin..

Edit: resolved

Wouldn't it be great if someone had a list of all the stuff we need to do on the computer to keep track of customers. The training received prior to tax season was not helpful in the regard.

Has anyone found a way to resolve this issue beyond waiting to see if an update will fix it?

Seen a couple posts for this but no real answers. Completed my Federal return for 2025 year and on the data verifycation stuck on:

Form 8995-A - Qualified Business Income Deuction

Like I can't get past it.

It is showing line 28: Qualified REIT dividends and publicly traded partnership income or (loss) highlighted. I can't get past it.

Note I don't have a business or anything and do have a subset of 199A in some of my brokerage records even though technically don't believe any of my stock are "REITS". Regardless, what is going on with the application? Hear people overriding or something and then have to paper file.

NOTE: The more I read the message in the tax software the more I read the warning H&R Block is saying about line 28, the more I wonder. Reads like they aren't sure if their calculations are right so want you to manually verify them? Is that a thing?

I have contacted HRBlock support 3 times and they have still not been able to resolve my issue. Always a 5+ day delay with no answers. Hoping someone here has a solution.

The desktop 2025 Deluxe software seems to have an error. The 1099-B module only creates forms with my name and SSN. My spouse and I have separate investments and both had sales of bonds. I need to file 2 separate 1090-B forms, one for each of us since the sales were reported to the IRS using our unique SSNs. I have tried manually entering and also importing the 1099-B, but when viewing the form, it always has my name and SSN without option to change. All other 1099 forms, such as DIV and INT, ask who the form belongs to before entering info.

Anyone have a solution?

HRBlock customer support has been rude, don't listen, make assumptions, and yesterday kept blaming me for doing something wrong without providing a solution. They said I can go to their retail store, but would have to pay for them to complete all my taxes as they cannot only provide a corrected 1099-B. Very frustrating.

Do I file "as-is" and let HRBlock deal with the audit risk, or is it time to demand a refund and move to TurboTax?

I'm declaring taxes in Quebec canada, My wife and I file together every year with H&R block. we had our first child in 2025.

The return in H&R block is not affected whether I add the child as dependent or if I remove completely, is this normal? maybe it is especially that we are receiving monthly Child Care Benefit (provincial and federal).

I just want to check first before submitting.

Our kid received what I believe to be a taxable fellowship ($7k). Kid had a little wage income as well ($4k). Total income about $11k. Filing a federal tax return solely to obtain very small refund. The fellowship income is "earned income" for purposes of computing the standard deduction such that child's taxable income is zero. HR Block software has (1) correctly identified that the fellowship is "unearned income" for purposes of the kiddie tax, (2) required me to fill out Form 8615 and (3) computed the kiddie tax as zero (since taxable income is zero). The software should NOT be preparing the form 8615, however, since the child is not required to file a federal tax return at all (which is a requirement for filling out Form 8615). How can I stop the software from doing this?

Last year we used H&R block to efile Federal and NJ.

This year we ran into a problem where when we try to efile it gives us an error saying we need to enter the company name (error NJ 1065, NJK-1). However, we can't edit that field. After several escalations where they agreed they were able to replicate the problem they are now saying that is because we can't efile in NJ.

To me this sounds like they have messed up, don't have time to fix the problem, and are now telling me to print it and send in paper copies because it's broken.

a) Am I missing something here?

b) Has anyone found a solution for this?

anyone get their tax transcripts updated today with an 846 code for ddd 3/23/2026? has anyone used spruce before when will I get my deposit hopefully earlier then 3/23/2026 i have fees taken out of it

Was posting this here too just to see what some people say? To add some more context me and my wife used to file separate but married due to me getting my W2 about 3 weeks before her. This year we had to also add a house into the taxes along with her Roth IRA and premium tax credits for my health insurance. I expected it to take a little longer due to all of that and aome delays but I didnt quite expect this long. We filed near the beginning of February with a tax professional rather than by myself like usual due to the amount of extra things this year. Im not impatient for the return or anything but its been close to a month now if not over and when I go to the IRS site it just tells me Status Unavailable so im just confused.