The Kansas City Tax-Increment Financing Commission has given H&R Block two weeks to respond to a report from the city concluding that minority participation was inflated during the construction of the company's headquarters in downtown Kansas City.The TIF Commission will hold a special meeting in two weeks to make a final decision about whether an honest effort was made to include minority businesses in the construction. Virtually the entire cost of H&R Block's oval-shaped headquarters w
The Kansas City Tax-Increment Financing Commission delayed a final judgment on J.E. Dunn's alleged use of front companies to meet minority hiring goals during its construction of H&R Block's world headquarters.Allegations that Dunn overreported minority participation on the Block project first surfaced in a 2005 lawsuit filed by a group of Hispanic contractors. The suit turned up evidence that several minority contractors served as fronts for non-minority businesses. In the most striking exa
