Jackson Hewitt Tax Services Inc.

• Public
• US

Dow Jones Description

Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. provides computerized preparation of federal, state and local individual income tax returns in the United States through a nationwide network of franchised and company-owned offices operating under the brand name Jackson Hewitt Tax Service ® . We provide our customers with convenient, fast and quality tax return preparation services and electronic filing of their tax returns. In connection with their tax return preparation experience, our customers may select various financial products to suit their needs, including refund anticipation loans (RALs). Jackson Hewitt, the Company, we, our, and us are used interchangeably in this report to refer to Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. and its subsidiaries, appropriate to the context. We are the second largest paid individual tax return preparer in the United States based upon the number of individual tax returns prepared and filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In 2008, our network consisted of 6,763 franchised and company-owned offices and prepared 3.39 million tax returns excluding Economic Stimulus Program (ESP) tax returns (3.46 million total tax returns). We estimate our network prepared approximately 4% of all tax returns prepared by a paid tax return preparer (paid tax return preparer market). We had total revenues for 2008 of $278.5 million which consisted of fees paid by our franchisees, service revenues earned at company-owned offices and financial product fees. ...

Director, President and Chief Executive Officer

Number of Employees 429

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