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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday <\/a>that Intuit\u2019s \u201cubiquitous\u201d advertising claiming its TurboTax tax prep software is free to use is misleading, and has asked a federal court to order Intuit to stop \u201cdisseminating the deceptive claim that consumers can file their taxes for free using TurboTax.\u201d <\/p>\n

According to the commission, the ads \u201csome of which have consisted almost entirely of the word \u2018free\u2019 spoken repeatedly\u201d mislead people into believing they can file their taxes for free with TurboTax. \u201cIn fact, most tax filers can\u2019t use the company\u2019s \u2018free\u2019 service because it is not available to millions of taxpayers, such as those who get a 1099 form for work in the gig economy, or those who earn farm income.,\u201d the agency said in a press release. The FTC said that in 2020, \u201capproximately two-thirds of tax filers could not use TurboTax\u2019s free product.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FTC is seeking a preliminary injunction that would prevent Intuit \u201cfrom engaging in deceptive acts or practices\u201d in its marketing and advertising, including ads for TurboTax. <\/p>\n

Intuit said in a statemen<\/a>t that it will \u201cvigorously challenge\u201d the FTC\u2019s complaint, claiming the arguments were not credible. \u201cFar from steering taxpayers away from free tax preparation offerings, our free advertising campaigns have led to more Americans filing their taxes for free than ever before and have been central to raising awareness of free tax prep,\u201d said Intuit\u2019s executive vice president and general counsel Kerry McLean.<\/p>\n

The IRS has a program that allows many Americans to file their taxes for free, as part of a partnership with the nonprofit coalition Free File Alliance. Intuit said last July it was leaving that program<\/a>, however, citing its \u201climitations.\u201d <\/p>\n

If all this seems a little familiar to readers, they may be remembering the 2019 series of reports by ProPublica<\/em><\/a>, which found that Intuit and H&R Block had misled people into paying to file their taxes. ProPublica found that both companies kept free versions of their software from showing up in search engine results<\/a>, making them harder for customers to find online. The IRS later changed the Free File<\/a> program, removing a provision that prohibited the agency from creating an online filing system of its own that could be a competitor for the software companies\u2019 products.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Source: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday that Intuit\u2019s \u201cubiquitous\u201d advertising claiming its TurboTax tax prep software is free to use is misleading, and has asked a federal court to order Intuit to stop \u201cdisseminating the deceptive claim that consumers can file their taxes for free using TurboTax.\u201d According to the commission, the ads […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy","category-technology","tag-policy"],"yoast_head":"\nThe FTC sues TurboTax to stop \u2018misleading\u2019 ads for free tax prep software - 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