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4400 Main Street
Kansas City, Missouri 64111
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
TO BE HELD SEPTEMBER 7, 2005
The annual meeting of shareholders of H&R Block, Inc., a Missouri corporation (the ‘‘Company’’), will be held in the H&R Block City
Stage Theater at Union Station located at 30 West Pershing (corner of Pershing and Main Street), Kansas City, Missouri, on Wednesday,
September 7, 2005 at 9:00 a.m., Kansas City time (CDT). Shareholders attending the meeting are asked to park in The Yards Parking Lot
located on the west side of Union Station. The meeting will be held for the following purposes:
1. The election of four Class I directors (nominees are Thomas M. Bloch, Mark A. Ernst, David Baker Lewis and Tom D. Seip) to
serve until the 2008 annual meeting and until their successors are elected and qualified (See page 3);
2. The approval of the H&R Block Executive Performance Plan, as amended (See page 10);
3. The ratification of the appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company’s independent accountants for the fiscal year ending April 30,
2006 (See page 12); and
4. The transaction of any other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournments thereof.
The Board of Directors has fixed the close of business on July 5, 2005 as the record date for determining shareholders of the Company
entitled to notice of and to vote at the meeting.
By Order of the Board of Directors
BRET G. WILSON
Secretary
Kansas City, Missouri
August 12, 2005
A proxy for the annual meeting is enclosed. Even though you may plan to attend the meeting in person, please promptly vote by
telephone or Internet or by completing the enclosed proxy card and returning it in the enclosed postage-paid envelope. Telephone and
Internet voting information is provided on the proxy card. If you are present at the meeting and desire to vote in person, your vote by proxy
will not be used.