H&R Block Software Glitch To Delay 600,000 U.S. Tax Refunds

mrquagmire sends this quote from a Reuters report: "Tax refunds for about 600,000 taxpayers claiming an education credit will be delayed, the Internal Revenue Service said on Wednesday, citing a software glitch at some tax-preparation companies, including industry leader H&R Block Inc. Refunds may be delayed four to six weeks from mid-February, likely not showing up until late March, the IRS said. ... On Tuesday, a Wal-Mart Stores Inc executive said shoppers had cashed about $2.7 billion in tax refund checks at its U.S. stores so far this year. At this point last year, that amount was about $4 billion. The IRS delayed the start of the tax filing season by eight days, to January 30, due to the enactment of tax law changes made to resolve the "fiscal cliff."

Comments

a software glitch, ha?

[roman_mir]

A software glitch?

I have a feeling that this software glitch is not really a bug, it's just when this function executed:

getTotalAvailableFederalBalance()

it returned 0, and somewhere along the line it triggered a condition known as: TreasuryIsBareException

Easily Handled

[Frankie70]

try
{
        avail = getTotalAvailableFederalBalance();
}
catch(TreasuryIsBareException e)
{
        printMoreMoney();
}