Talk:Jackson Hewitt

Updated History
I renamed the 'Today' section (which refers to a period four years ago) to 'At Its Peak' and wrote a completly new 'Today' section detailing the company's recent struggles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.25.118.11 (talk) 02:28, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

New History
I added a great deal of history which was an area previously identified as having weakness, unfortunately I wrote a great deal from memory and had very little to support what I wrote by way of citation. I did cite one item which without citation would probably be percieved as biased, specifically regarding the circumstances under which John Hewitt left Jackson Hewitt. The citation is to the SEC filing that discusses Mr. Hewitt's departure. 98.25.107.63 (talk) 02:29, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Random notes
I deleted one sentence regarding Jackson Hewitt's policy on not disclosing taxpayer information, as I didn't see the policy stated anywhere in the cited USA Today article. Maybe I just missed it. At any rate, I would assume that Jackson Hewitt does have such a policy. After all, it's a Federal offense for a compensated income tax return preparer to disclose taxpayer information without the taxpayer's consent (up to a year in prison). See. Also, it's unclear what materiality this has to the story, since all compensated preparers of Federal income tax returns are subject to the same criminal penalties.

Regarding the quote from the "activist," I'm unclear on why this particular person's opinion about Jackson Hewitt is notable here. What is his or her connection to the story (i.e., what about the guy who runs the convenience store down the street, should we include a quote from him on his view about Jackson Hewitt?)? Maybe the significance should be clarified in the article. Yours, Famspear 17:39, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

I was fact checking an article about the franchise; I come up with several different founding dates--the wiki entry says 1960, Yahoo Finance says 1985, Yahoo Business says 1982, most everyone else says 1982. Interestingly the Jackson Hewitt site contains very little company history and no founding date--maybe they are trying to avoid mentioning the fact that the founder is no longer with the company? 64.173.193.1 22:20, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

I am not sure where 1960 came from. The company worked under the name Mel Jackson tax service for a few years in a more localized market in Virginia until Hewitt came along with aspirations of a national company in 1985 or 1986. Having said that, I find it a little absurd that an article about a 20-25 year old company is almost exclusively about a scandal effecting around 2% of their stores. It should definitely be in the article, but it should NOT be the main part of the article. Hsox05 20:00, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

25 Year old Company
Jackson Hewitt is a 25 year old company with silly commercials, but the article only includes a brief scrape of the about us section of the Jackson Hewitt website and a well written piece about recent litigation. Surely someone has some history on the company. This article seems to have a bit more information on the history of the company, but it's missing quite a bit too. maybe I'm in too early on this article. 70.129.243.150 04:41, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Public/Private
Someone who knows how needs to change company type in the company summary box on the right top of the article from 'Public' to 'Private' as when it emerged from bankruptcy Jackson Hewitt was owned by a group of private hedge funds. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.182.170.160 (talk) 18:02, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Jackson Hewitt introduction update
I am a Jackson Hewitt employee, thus not making a direct edit due to COI. Jackson Hewitt updated its logo in 2015. Here is a link to the corporate website: http://www.jacksonhewitt.com/. Thus I am requesting the image be updated. Jackson Hewitt also moved its headquarters from Parsippany, NJ to Jersey City, NJ in 2015. Here is a link to news coverage surrounding the move: http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2015/11/jackson_hewitt_moves_national.html. I am requesting that this also be updated in the text and in the summary box on the right-hand side of the page. Let me know your thoughts, appreciate the help.Angela Daniels (talk) 18:36, 1 December 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅. January  ( talk ) 18:19, 3 December 2015 (UTC)