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Expatfile Standard vs H&R Block Expat, with an advisor

Expatfile Standard is $239 cheaper for a federal return with an FBAR: $119 against $358 at H&R Block Expat, with an advisor.

The published price of an expat federal return plus one FBAR, before any extra forms. Every figure this site holds on both products is below, side by side. All 9 of them differ.

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Expatfile

Expatfile Standard

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How this score is calculatedRubric 2026.1. Each criterion scores 0–5 from verified attributes, then is weighted. Nothing here is entered by hand.
CriterionWeightScorePoints
Federal return with FBAR100%4.894.89
Total100%4.9

Excellent tier. Weights are published on the methodology page; a change to any of them is a rubric version bump, not a silent edit.

Software you complete yourself, at $119 a return for the Standard package, with the foreign earned income exclusion and foreign tax credit forms included. It does not file the FBAR: the package sends instructions to file it yourself, which FinCEN allows at no charge. Premier ($159) adds self-employment; Investor ($199) adds capital gains and FATCA reporting.

Who this suits

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Who it doesn’t

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H&R Block

H&R Block Expat, with an advisor

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How this score is calculatedRubric 2026.1. Each criterion scores 0–5 from verified attributes, then is weighted. Nothing here is entered by hand.
CriterionWeightScorePoints
Federal return with FBAR100%3.573.57
Total100%3.6

Strong tier. Weights are published on the methodology page; a change to any of them is a rubric version bump, not a silent edit.

The cheapest professionally prepared option published here, starting at $259 with the FBAR a separate $99. Both are 'starting at' prices that the page says may vary with your situation. H&R Block also sells a do-it-yourself expat package from $124 plus $49 per FBAR.

Who this suits

Nothing in this product's verified data distinguishes it from the rest of this table.

Who it doesn’t

No verified figure in this table counts against this product. We don't manufacture a drawback to balance the page.

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Points Architect. "Expatfile Standard vs H&R Block Expat, with an advisor: verified comparison." Rubric 2026.1. Verified Sep 2026. https://pointsarchitect.com/compare/expatfile-vs-hr-block-expat

BibTeX

@misc{pointsarchitect-compare-expatfile-vs-hr-block-expat,
  title        = {Expatfile Standard vs H&R Block Expat, with an advisor: verified comparison},
  author       = {{Points Architect}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://pointsarchitect.com/compare/expatfile-vs-hr-block-expat}},
  note         = {Verified Sep 2026; rubric 2026.1}
}

Canonical URL https://pointsarchitect.com/compare/expatfile-vs-hr-block-expat. Every row in the attribute table has its own anchor, so a single fee can be cited without citing the whole record.