Intuit schlägt FTC vor Gericht und beendet Beschränkungen für „kostenlose“ TurboTax-Anzeigen | Strafe aus der Biden-Ära verhängt; Unter dem US-Präsidenten hat Intuit nun freundlichere Regulierungsbehörden.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/intuit-beats-ftc-in-court-ending-restrictions-on-free-turbotax-ads/
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Republican voters: truly, what the fuck was the plan here? You guys have really just shit the bed for all of us to a degree that’s honestly impressive.
> The TurboTax website is designed so that any individual taxpayer can begin preparing a tax return in TurboTax Free Edition, but those who enter disqualifying information are prompted before filing to upgrade to a paid product.
Really captured the market of „fuck it, I made it this far and I’m too lazy to do it again, so I’ll just pay“ consumers.
> The Jarkesy precedent that helped Intuit beat the FTC is also at the center of a case in which AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile are challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to issue fines for selling customer location data without their users’ consent.
If you’ve ever wondered what Biden actually accomplished, it was a bunch of small stuff like this. Maintaining the status quo, yes, which is not what more progressive people want, but holding back the shitstorm as well with fights like this.
Americans already had paper thin protections, life under the Trump (pedo) admin has gotten objectively worse in so many ways that we don’t see.
Intuit getting exactly what they paid for
The focus is clear: rules and regulations are perverted by this administration to protect big business and oligarchs as they lie, cheat and steal. The rule of law in the United States is giving way to a more Russian-style arrangement where the ultra-rich and government prey on their people instead of benefit them.
Jeffrey Epstein was just one illustrative example of the utter impunity the top .0001% enjoy to wreak havoc on everyone else.
The chiselling will continue until there is only one corporation left, the world oligarchy. There is nothing greedier than governments by the rich for the rich.
BOYCOTT INTUIT
Is there anything this administration has done that supports MAGA’s fallacy that Trump is the president for the people? Quite literally I can’t think of a single policy that benefits the average person more than it benefits corporations and the wealthy. It’s freaking nuts. But hey trans girls are out of sports? I guess to them it’s worth it?
The easy solution here is to just not use Turbotax, and tell everyone you know to do the same. I switched to FreeTaxUSA years ago and never looked back, even handles my wife’s self-employment income (Schedule C) for free (Federal is free, $16 for state).
Intuit will go into the 401k market soon too. Fuckers want everything
Hell, yeah! Fuck you, little people! Get gud at reading or get steamrolled by predatory and deliberately misleading ads!
I, for one, am stoked about the future potential of our country to continue allowing and, dare I say, encouraging businesses to fleece defenseless citizens.
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Really need to consider tossing FreeTaxUSA stickers on all those TT stands at the stores. Might help get the word out for people still unfamiliar to the site.
I will never, ever use an Intuit product. They are the boring version of evil.
Liars and criminals
Many have moved to FreeTaxUSA. Intuit stock is down 50% from its peak.
Thats okay, I mean it really isnt and im tired of dirtbag companies getting away with shit.
But i started going to a actual tax person, yeah its $275 a year but they have me covered on all bases and often do their best to maximize my refund.
Up until I started using a actual tax professional, all these „free“ services usually weren’t free, didnt get much or any support and I was often lucky to get any returns.
Just a reminder that Americans for Tax Freedom fight to make it harder and more expensive to do your taxes (and republicans have gotten rid of the govts free service which we should have had decades ago) and the rest take legal bribes (legalized by SCOTUS) from intuit so people can pay groups like intuit. Corruption in action.
Related story from a few years back: Professor tries to set up pre-filing from govt (would be way better for like 90% of Americans who do standard deduction, save you time, money, and effort) and got shut down by republicans who don’t want taxes to be easy to do:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/episode-760-tax-hero
Stop using Turbo Tax, free tax USA is free and literally right there. Also they use a very similar system of inputting your info in.
they had to contribute to the presidential bribery fund trump killed the free tax filing system asap
Part of the government’s job is to protect citizens from corporations because if they don’t, no one else will.
Freetaxusa works great
Turbo Tax allowed identity thieves to file taxes using our stolen social security numbers to file taxes. The thieves did not pay the filing fee and Turbo Tax sent us an invoice to pay for the fraudulent tax filing. We did not use Turbo Tax at all to file and will never use them.