LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
(SECTION 16 FILINGS)

	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned, Tony G. Bowen, hereby
constitutes and appoints each of Scott W. Andreasen, Katharine M. Haynes and
Thomas A. Gerke, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact to prepare, execute and acknowledge Forms 3, 4 and 5 (including
  any amendments thereto and other actions or filings necessary for or related
to such forms) with respect to the securities of H&R Block, Inc., a Missouri
corporation (the "Company") and to deliver and file such forms with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission, any national securities exchange, and
  the Company, as considered necessary or advisable under Section 16(a) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder, as amended from time to time; it being understood that the documents
  executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to
this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and
conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's
discretion.

	The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any rights and powers herein
granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could
do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact shall lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers
herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the
undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the
undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.

	This Power of Attorney supersedes and replaces all previously executed Powers
of Attorney with respect to the matters contained herein. This Power of Attorney
  shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer
required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of
and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by
the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the Secretary of the Company.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed this 29th day of April, 2016.


/s/ Tony Bowen
Tony Bowen

State of Missouri	)
County of Jackson	)

	On the date set forth above, before me appeared Tony G. Bowen, who is
personally known to me as the person who executed the foregoing instrument, and
such person duly acknowledged that such person executed and delivered the same
for the purposes therein expressed.

/s/ Valerie J. Owings
Notary Public

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