'Free' TurboTax offers weren't free, Intuit ordered to stop 'deceptive' ads
The government could make tax filing free and a lot easier for everyone if it wanted to.
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Tax Filing Websites Have Been Sending Users’ Financial Information to Facebook
The Markup found services including TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block sending sensitive data
By: Simon Fondrie-Teitler, Angie Waller, and Colin Lecher
Major tax filing services such as H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer have been quietly transmitting sensitive financial information to Facebook when Americans file their taxes
'Free' Tax Claims Spell $141 Million Penalty for Intuit's TurboTax
Just a few weeks ago, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) skewered Intuit for the “free, free, free” ad campaign for its TurboTax subsidiary. Now the company has agreed to pay $141 million to customers who were deceived by misleading promises of free tax-filing services.
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced
Intuit Skewered for Influence Peddling and 'Free' Tax Filing Abuses
Hiring former regulators and politicians as lobbyists and apologists is common in Washington. But Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) says Intuit has taken influence-peddling to new lows with the tactics it uses to defend its TurboTax product’s “bogus” advertising for free tax filing.
Warren’s comments follow a Federal Trade
IRS Wants to Hear From Gig Workers
We hear a lot about how rich people supposedly don’t pay taxes. But the rest of us sometimes slip through the net as well, often using online payment platforms like PayPal, Venmo, CashApp and Zelle.
This is about to get a bit more difficult. The Internal Revenue Service is