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I must agree with H&R Block concerning this lawsuit. I have been employed as a Tax Preparer during the Tax Season for several years. The company,and other such companies,I worked for require their employees to take the company's training courses & pass an exam before being allowed to actually prepare any tax return. The exam involves preparing a 1040 tax return. If the employee does not pass the exam then the employee is limited, most generally, in the length of employment &/or required to have each tax return the employee prepares reviewed by the Head Tax Preparer or Office Manager before the return is allowed to be filed. So for Intuit to suggest that I and other tax preparers are not reliable because we are not a CPA, Enrolled Agent, or Tax Lawyer is false and extremely misleading. I have never been told by any individual whose tax return I have prepared that I am unreliable because I am not a CPA,Enrolled Agent or Tax Lawyer. Intuit is not only effecting H&R Block and other tax preparation businesses; Intuiut is also effecting the reputations & livihood of many reliable tax preparers who are not CPAs, Enrolled Agents, or Tax Lawyers with this type of advertising. Also, in my opinion & experince most people who file a tax return in the U.S.A. file the short easier tax forms (1040EZ and 1040A). Niether of these forms Require the tax knowledge of a CPA, Enrolled Agent, or Tax Lawyer. Even the 1040 form / long form really does not Require a CPA, Enrolled Agent, or Tax Lawyer to be filled out and filed correctly. Intuit's ad is simply false,misleading and should not be allowed to continue.

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