Tag: tax filing websites

TurboTax to Pay $141 Million Settlement for Deceiving Taxpayers

New York attorney general Letitia James announced that low-income consumers who had been “tricked” by the financial software firm Intuit into paying for free tax services will be receiving millions in dollars as a settlement. The case revolves around Intuit’s TurboTax tax-preparation software. The $141 million multistate settlement with Intuit was announced last year. The…


Tax Filing Websites Might Have Given Facebook Your Financial Information: Report

Several prominent online tax filing websites have reportedly been sending Americans’ private financial information to Facebook, even in cases where users did not have an account on the platform, according to a jointly published report by The Verge and nonprofit the Markup. The companies, which included H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer, utilized a code snippet…