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Tor some, associations with spring include seed catalogues, Easter eggs, kite flying or marbles. But for others, the approaching season is more ominous. It means the arrival of April 15 —and tax time.
That’s when the Washington H&R Block office traditionally reappeare. Office manager Marion Kuhn says this is its 9th year here, her 8th working in the Washington and Warrenton offices.
Kuhn says there are three people working in the Washington H&R Block office this year, but it’s best to make an appointment since tax preparers’ services are in such demand this time. Located in the Rappahannock News building, H&R Block is closed on Tuesdays, open until 7 p.m. on Fridays, and open Saturdays 9noon.
Each fiscal genius brings a solid background to the business that Kuhn thinks enables the preparers to cope with any complicated calculations. Kuhn has a bachelor’s degree in statistics and accounting and does opinion research for the University of Chicago.
Marge Atkins also has a degree in statistics and has been a preparer with H&R Block for five years. (She’s also assistant county registrar.) Atkins is in the office on Fridays by appointment.
Tax preparer Charlie Davis is spending his third year with H&R Block. He was previously a computer systems analyst and programmer for the federal government’s General Accounting Office.
Davis was an accounting major in college. He’s at the Rappahannock H&R office on Mondays and Thursdays by appointment and also works in the company’s offices in Culpeper and Manassas.
Davis, who lives in Hume where he also raises pigs, says he likes to keep his pencil sharp during the springtime when his accounting skills can “help a lot of neighbors.”
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