The Dark Knight vs. H&R Block

Bruce Wayne (aka Batman) may be out to get Block (H & R), not the villainous Bain. Seems like  H&R  did a tax return comparison between the  wealthy  Mr. Wayne and a competing super-hero and made a 17- million- dollar mistake on his tax projection.

In the first calculation (now pulled from their website) Block had Bruce Wayne reducing his taxes to zero by huge donations to charity. There’s only one problem with this – it doesn’t work now, and it never has. The tax code limits the charitable deduction to 50% of page one income (Adjusted Gross Income or AGI for short).

When a CPA blogger pointed this out, Block redid the calculation; and suddenly  Mr. Wayne’s tax liability changed from zero to $17,000,000. Oops!

I suspect that this is yet another attempt to make a case on how little the “rich” pay in taxes.
We’ve disproved this with IRS- provided facts in our blog posts and a follow up post for those doubting Thomases.

You might draw some conclusions about who should be preparing your taxes based on the first draft done for Bruce Wayne and the final (corrected) version. 

Here’s the data in graphic form:

• The first comparison
  
• The final result

Here’s the erroneous first version-

Here’s the corrected version- (turns out that the rich pay much more than their “fair share.”)