Basile v. H & R BLOCK, INC.

JOHNSON, J.:

¶ 1 In this appeal, we determine the nature of the relationship between mass-market tax preparer H & R Block, Inc., and H & R Block Eastern Tax Services, Inc. (Block), and taxpayers who retained Block’s services to file their tax returns under Block’s Rapid Refund ®, service between 1990 and 1993. Plaintiffs contend, inter alia, that Block was their agent and/or fiduciary and owed them a corresponding duty to disclose that their purported rapid refunds were, in fact, short-term, high interest, refund anticipation loans (RALs) in which Block shared an interest with Defendant Mellon…