It’s about time that Intuit was called out for their scam. Hopefully, the attempt to stop the federal tax filing will get dismissed as well.
Fuck Intuit and H&R Block, all my homies use FreeTaxUSA.
FTUSA is amazing. It’s either free or super cheap, depending on your state and income. I wish I knew about them sooner. I did my taxes on my phone at work during a slow shift.
A (now ex) coworker turned me on to FreeTaxUSA like a decade ago and I’ve been using it every year since then. It’s easy, free (for federal) and just works. I usually pay the $15 for them to file state/school since I’m a lazy fuck but really, my time is worth something after all. I’ve had zero complaints with them.
They should have been forced to do it the other way. “You advertise as free, so you have to provide this for free.”
I love how it’s gone so far beyond “We would like to assist people in paying their taxes.”
“We would like to prevent the US government from examining the possibility of creating it’s own online tax filing portal.”
“We would like to advertise our product as free using government channels and grants only to then turn around after the user has input their most sensitive data into our database and attempt to wring them for $100.00 or not be bound by our privacy policy.”
“Intuit will appeal this groundless and seemingly predetermined decision by the FTC to rule in its own favor and is confident that when the matter ultimately returns to a neutral body Intuit will prevail, as it has previously in this matter,” the company said.
Lmao
it’s insane how many words they have managed to write between the lines
I feel like this might be a good time to plug the IRS Free File Program. It’s a program that allows lower-income people to file their tax returns for free. While the program has been gutted in recent years by companies like Intuit leaving the program to either stop offering their services for free or to start offering a “free” alternative, it’s still viable. I used it last year to file my taxes.
