The Federal Trade Commission has been investigating Intuit and its marketing of TurboTax products, following ProPublica’s reporting that the Silicon Valley company deceived tax filers into paying when they could have filed for free. The FTC probe, run out of the commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, centers on whether Intuit violated the law against unfair …
Credit Karma is a site that I often suggest to consumers to obtain free credit report monitoring and credit report reviews, even if only for two credit bureaus. As long as users are aware that the motivation for Credit Karma to provide those free services is to market additional financial products, they can get the …
Last fall, Intuit’s longtime CEO Brad Smith embarked on a farewell tour of the company’s offices around the world. Smith had presided over 11 years of explosive growth, a period when Intuit had secured its place in the Silicon Valley pantheon, and the tour was like a long party. In Ontario, employees wore T-shirts with …
by Jessica Huseman ProPublica, March 20, 2017, 1:22 p.m. Here’s how preparing your taxes could work: You sit down, review a prefilled filing from the government. If it’s accurate, you sign it. If it’s not, you fix it or ignore it altogether and prepare your return yourself. It’s your choice. You might not have to …