SEC Form 4
FORM 4

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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility
Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
Yabuki, Jeffery     W.

(Last)                      (First)                      (Middle)
4400 Main Street


(Street)
Kansas City, MO     64111

(City)                      (State)                      (Zip)
USA
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol

H&R Block, Inc.   HRB
6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)

                        Director                           10% Owner
           X          Officer                             Other
          Executive Vice President and COO

7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)

X   Form filed by One Reporting Person
      Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
3. I.R.S. Identification
    Number of Reporting
    Person, if an entity
    (voluntary)
4. Statement for
    Month/Day/Year

    May 01, 2003


5. If Amendment,
    Date of Original
    (Month/Day/Year)
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security
    (Instr. 3)

2. Transaction Date
    (Month/Day/Year)
2A. Deemed
      Execution
      Date, if any

      (Month/Day/Year)
3. Transaction
    Code
    and
    Voluntary
    Code
    (Instr. 8)



Code  |  V    
4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed (D) Of
    (Instr. 3, 4, and 5)





        Amount      |         A/D         |         Price          
5. Amount of
    Securities
    Beneficially
    Owned
    Following
    Reported
Transaction(s)

    (Instr. 3 and 4)
6. Owner-
    ship
    Form:
    Direct(D)
    or
    Indirect (I)

    (Instr. 4)
7. Nature of
     Indirect
     Beneficial
     Ownership

    (Instr. 4)
Common Stock, without par value
04/30/2003

J (1) |     
  10.7450   |           A           |   $42.8500
(2)
D

Common Stock, without par value
05/01/2003

J (1) |     
  56.3660   |           A           |   $37.7000
68,349.6965
D

Common Stock, without par value




1,004.6940 (3)
I
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Yabuki, Jeffery W. - May 01, 2003
Form 4 (continued)
Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security
    (Instr. 3)
2. Conver-
    sion or
    Exercise
    Price of
    Deri-
    vative
    Security
3. Transaction
    Date

    (Month/
    Day/
    Year)
3A. Deemed
      Execution
      Date, if
      any

      (Month/
      Day/
      Year)
4. Transaction
    Code
    and
    Voluntary (V)
    Code
    (Instr.8)



Code | V    
5. Number of Derivative
    Securities Acquired (A)
    or Disposed (D) Of

    (Instr. 3,4 and 5)
6. Date Exercisable(DE) and
    Expiration Date(ED)
    (Month/Day/Year)






  (DE)     |     (ED)  
7. Title and Amount of
    Underlying Securities
    (Instr. 3 and 4)
8. Price
    of
    Derivative
    Security
    (Instr.5)
9. Number of
    Derivative
    Securities
    Beneficially
    Owned
    Following
    Reported
    Transactions
    (Instr.4)
10.
Owner-
ship
Form of
Deriv-
ative
Security:
Direct
(D)
or
Indirect
(I)
(Instr.4)
11. Nature of
      Indirect
      Beneficial
      Ownership
      (Instr.4)
Call Option to Purchase
$23.1875



09/07/2002 | 09/07/2009
Common Stock, without par value - 80,000
80,000
D

Call Option to Purchase
$16.1875



06/30/2003 | 06/30/2010
Common Stock, without par value - 70,000
70,000
D

Call Option to Purchase
$32.2750



06/30/2004 | 06/30/2011
Common Stock, without par value - 90,000
90,000
D

Call Option to Purchase
$46.1500



06/30/2004 | 06/30/2012
Common Stock, without par value - 90,000
90,000
D













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By: Michael K. Post per Power of Attorney                   05-02-2003    
** Signature of Reporting Person                                     Date


Jeffery W. Yabuki

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Yabuki, Jeffery W. - May 01, 2003
Form 4 (continued)
FOOTNOTE Descriptions for H&R Block, Inc. HRB

Form 4 - May 2003

Jeffery W. Yabuki
4400 Main Street

Kansas City, MO 64111

Explanation of responses:

(1)   Units acquired under the H&R Block Deferred Compensation Plan for Executives, as Amended and Restated. Each unit has the value of one share of Common Stock.
(2)   The reporting person is voluntarily updating his end of period holdings to reflect the acquisition of 324.8316 shares (including shares acquired through dividend reinvestment) under the H&R Block, Inc. 2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, which qualifies as an employee stock purchase plan under Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(3)   Units held under the H&R Block Retirement Savings Plan. Balance updated to reflect 30.364 units acquired under the Plan.
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LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY

(SECTION 16 FILINGS)

        Know all by these presents, that the undersigned, Jeffery W. Yabuki, hereby constitutes and appoints each of James H. Ingraham, Bret G. Wilson, Brian H. Schmidt, and Michael K. Post, 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) with respect to the securities of H&R Block, Inc., a Missouri corporation (the “Company”) and deliver and file such forms with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, any national securities exchanges 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, or such attorney-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, 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 foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed this 5th day of March, 2003.

/s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki
Jeffery W. Yabuki

State of Missouri    )
County of Jackson  )

        On the date set forth above, before me appeared Jeffery W. Yabuki, 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/ Paula C. Panarisi
Notary Public

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