![]() Still, the settlement requires the company to stop misrepresenting its products and make its disclosures clearer, in addition to implementing other consumer-friendly improvements. Intuit pulled out of the official IRS Free File initiative last year, though the company continues to allow some customers to file taxes for free. To do this, it allegedly changed the name of its filing services multiple times (including calling the commercial version "Free Edition"), hid its IRS Free File webpage from search engines, and made specifics about pricing and eligibility hard to find. ![]() TurboTax was accused of funneling people seeking the the IRS Free File offer to its own "freemium" product, which was widely advertised as free but actually charged fees to many customers. The agreement comes after New York and other states investigated TurboTax for encouraging customers to use paid tax prep options when they could have filed at no charge through the IRS Free File, a partnership between the government and several name-brand softwares to help Americans below certain income levels do their annual taxes. ![]() Hawaii Alaska Florida South Carolina Georgia Alabama North Carolina Tennessee RI Rhode Island CT Connecticut MA Massachusetts Maine NH New Hampshire VT Vermont New York NJ New Jersey DE Delaware MD Maryland West Virginia Ohio Michigan Arizona Nevada Utah Colorado New Mexico South Dakota Iowa Indiana Illinois Minnesota Wisconsin Missouri Louisiana Virginia DC Washington DC Idaho California North Dakota Washington Oregon Montana Wyoming Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma Pennsylvania Kentucky Mississippi Arkansas Texas Get Started
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