HENRY BLOCH, CO-FOUNDER OF H&R BLOCK, DIES AT 96

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Henry Bloch, who helped found tax preparation giant H&R Block, died Tuesday at age 96, the company announced. Bloch died of natural causes at St. Luke’s Hospice in Kansas City, Missouri. He founded H&R Block in 1955 with his brother, Richard, to take advantage of the vacuum left as the Internal Revenue Service stopped providing free income tax return service. Richard Bloch died in 2004. Henry Bloch retired as H&R Block’s chief executive officer in 1992 and as chairman of the board of directors in 2000.