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H&R Block 2021 Tax Software (Digital Download): Deluxe + State $15, Deluxe $5, Basic Expired

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GetHRBlock.com has select H&R Block 2021 Tax Software (Digital Download) on sale when you follow the deal instructions below.

Thanks to Community Members Cossid & kstar1990 [discuss] for sharing this deal.

Deal Instructions:
  1. Visit the promotion page.
  2. Look for for a pop up window with the message "Wait! Save an additional $5 if you purchase now."
    • If you don't see the pop up window, try opening a new tab in your browser (or switching to another already open tab), wait a couple seconds and then return to the deal site tab with the original offer. Also try deleting cookies, disabling ad blockers, incognito mode or a different browser.
  3. In the pop up window, click "Save $5 Now" to activate your $5 discount.
  4. Select your product on the promotion page (prices after $5 discount):
    • Basic Free
    • Deluxe $4.95
    • Deluxe + State $14.95
  5. Click "Purchase Now" for your selection.
  6. $5 discount will apply automatically on Payment Info screen.
  7. Proceed to checkout & complete your order.

Editor's Notes & Price Research

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  • About this product:
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details & discussion. -StrawMan86
Please see this FP deal for better prices on these versions:
  • Premium $34.95
  • Premium & Business $49.95
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Edited December 13, 2021 at 08:38 PM by
Please read the instructions, as all of the prices require at least one step, some require two.

This appears to be the best total deal for H&R Block so far this year, and beats or meets prior year deals.

Deal link for Basic, Deluxe, Deluxe + State: https://gethrblock.com/blush
Deal link for Premium, Premium + Business https://gethrblock.com/olive50
This site is owned by H&R Block Digital, payments will be processed by hrblock.com and the key you get will come directly from an hrblock.com email.

Step 1) Click on link above. Wait for tax identity shield popup to display and close it.
Step 2) Open a new tab in your browser (or switch to another already open tab), wait a couple seconds and then return to the deal site tab with the original offer. You will now be presented with a "last chance" popup which will give you a $5 discount on all available selections, click "Save $5 Now".
Step 3a) If you wish to purchase Deluxe + State or below, select your product and check out, the $5 discount will be displayed on the individual product page.
Step 3b) If you wish to purchase Premium or Premium + Business, chose the product tier just below your desired version. The initial $5 discount will be on the lower tier product page (and will traverse to the upgraded product later). When you click purchase (you won't be charged here and will have a chance to review on the next screen), you will be presented a discounted upgrade (bringing your total discount to $10).

Basic: $4.95 - $5 = -$0.05 (unsure what happens here, not the version I purchased)
Deluxe: $9.95 - $5 = $4.95
Deluxe + State: $19.95 - $5 = $14.95
Premium: $32.49 now $39.99 -$5 -$5 = $22.49 now $29.99
Premium + Business: $39.99 now $54.95 -$5 -$5 = $29.99 now $44.95

If you don't get the last chance offer, clear your cache/cookies or try in a new private browsing session (closing all other private browsing windows first). Private mode in Edge or Firefox seem to work best.

Credit to kstar1990 and their similar thread at https://slickdeals.net/f/15492997-h-r-block-deluxe-2021-tax-software-w-efile-windows-mac-9-95-or-deluxe-state-19-95?v=1 - More details about verification of the gethrblock.com domain being legit there.

Edit: As posted in the other thread, here is a link [bestbuy.com] to one of last year's products on Best Buy where an H&R Block rep confirms gethrblock.com is legitimate.
Edit 2: Thanks again to kstar1990 for a new link for Premium & Premium + Business with even lower prices!
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Last Edited by stanclave January 25, 2022 at 06:28 PM
If you're purchasing Premium or Premium + Business and viewing from the Slick Deals homepage, expand the original post for a better deal. Premium for $22.95, Premium + Business for $29.99 or see the post dedicated to just that deal.

Some free tax software options...

Credit Karma Tax is now Cash App Taxes
1: Credit Karma Tax
https://www.creditkarma.com/tax

2: Free Tax USA
https://www.freetaxusa.com/

HOW TO DOWNLOAD AFTER YOU GET CODE FROM HRBLOCK??

Go to
https://gethrblock.com/blush

Click Support menu on top right side.

Click 'New Computer installation'

Fill in activation code & email

Download HR Block software

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Featured Comments

Stop trolling and posting false trash on this site.

I used to do taxes professionally and have found HR Block to be as good as Turbo Tax in terms of ease of use, and better in some cases where I have to manually edit a form.

In fact every year I'll compare HR Block to Turbo Tax online for a select few people and find the results the same, if not more comprehensive with HR Block.

Turbo Tax has tried to screw over American tax payers for decades, starting in the 90's / 2000's by forcing its customers to register their tax software via server activation. This meant if your PC died, or you had to factory reset due to a virus, you could not reinstall the tax software, or reinstall it in later years to do an amended return. This alone causes me to stay away from Turbo Tax. Every year I have to file 2-3 amended returns for prior years, and with Taxcut it is super simple.

Now Turbo Tax tries to lobby congress to keep taxes complicated so people are forced to use its software. Also, Turbo Tax tries to hide the free tax filing option from eligible tax filers and have been taken to task for that.

No matter which way you spin it, Turbo Tax is evil and anti-consumer. Stop spouting BS that HR Block is worse than Turbo Tax. No way I'm going to let this fly.
Turbo Tax interface is easier in some ways, but HR Block's interface is fairly easy as will, and allows easy manual control of the forms for more complex situations.
Exactly.
Don't listen to the troll.
Exactly. Suckers pay way more for Turbo Tax because they listen to trolls and don't understand that alternatives are just as good, if not better.
Thanks for the deal. This is the first time I'm able to purchase H&R tax software many months before tax is even due.

I used their small setup launcher to install, which isn't the full software install (file downloaded was too small for full install). Did some snooping to find the full installer that it automatically downloaded. One can find the full installer for backup/copy purposes in your C:\Users\<Windows user login>\AppData\Local\Temp directory. For me, since I bought Deluxe + State, the file name is: HRBlock_Deluxe-State_CW.exe
I had the same problem. I had to call customer support to get an email with a download link.
To save you the constant forwarding, here is the dept that actually helped me.

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12-10-2021 at 10:49 PM.
Quote from CndnMP :
Can't get it to work for me.
There are instructions in the thread I linked to that might help. Edge and Firefox seem to work fine. A new private browsing session seems to work best. If it fails, close all private browsers and try again.

Even without the extra discount, the base prices on this page are equal to the current best prices of the year.
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12-10-2021 at 11:08 PM.
12-10-2021 at 11:08 PM.
Got it to work immediately in Chrome. Thank you! Cheaper than I got it in 2020.
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12-10-2021 at 11:16 PM.
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Pay tax man day worst day ever
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12-10-2021 at 11:24 PM.
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Worked, but backwards. Clicking through OP's link, I got the $5.00 discount offer first. Clicked on it.

Then the Indentity offer popped up.

Once you see the Deluxe offered as a $9.95 option, click on it ... it will show a $9.95 less $5.00 = $ 4.95 on the next page.
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12-10-2021 at 11:26 PM.

Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank hqh51

12-10-2021 at 11:26 PM.
Thanks for the deal. This is the first time I'm able to purchase H&R tax software many months before tax is even due.

I used their small setup launcher to install, which isn't the full software install (file downloaded was too small for full install). Did some snooping to find the full installer that it automatically downloaded. One can find the full installer for backup/copy purposes in your C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp directory. For me, since I bought Deluxe + State, the file name is: HRBlock_Deluxe-State_CW.exe
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12-10-2021 at 11:33 PM.
12-10-2021 at 11:33 PM.
Thanks for posting.

I clicked back in this tab / OP's post to see the next step and the $5 off showed up when clicking back on the HRblock tab in Chrome, so didn't even need to open a new tab.

Already installed.
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12-10-2021 at 11:35 PM.
12-10-2021 at 11:35 PM.
Quote from broncobisley1 :
Thanks for posting.

I clicked back in this tab / OP's post to see the next step and the $5 off showed up when clicking back on the HRblock tab in Chrome, so didn't even need to open a new tab.

Already installed.
Correct, technically all you need to do is de-focus the deal tab. Opening a new tab is just the easiest repeatable instruction.
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12-10-2021 at 11:37 PM.
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Bought, instructions worked perfectly (actually didn't even need to close the identity shield popup first, just switched to another tab and back and the $5 discount was offered in a popup on top of the identity shield popup), downloaded, installed, and opened software just fine. Did get charged sales tax, but this deal is low enough for me.

Tip from another SD thread on H&R Block software: you're getting a 4MB launcher that then downloads a 47MB installer (at least for Deluxe+State). The installer exe file is downloaded to C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp
and the installer file is called HRBlock_Deluxe-State_CW.exe in case you want to save it
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12-10-2021 at 11:49 PM.
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Instructions worked exactly as provided for Deluxe plus State. Used Brave on Win7 to make the purchase and do the .exe download. Will install and make the first pass using the Win10 machine in late Jan when I get my W-2. Probably won't have all my filing docs until late Feb.

Thx for the deal!
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12-11-2021 at 12:06 AM.
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I paid $39.99 for premium & business last yr on amazon + 3.5% refund bonus on amazon
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Is this site even legal? H&R Block website is hrblock.com and the SSL certificate for this website belongs to some other company.
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