TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on May 4, 2022

Intuit Inc., the owner of TurboTax, has agreed to pay $141 million for deceiving consumers into paying for tax services that should have been free. All 50 states and the District of Columbia have signed onto the settlement which was led by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery and New York Attorney General Letitia James. About 111,000 Tennessee consumers will be eligible to receive payments of about $30 for each year during tax years 2016-2018 they used a paid TurboTax product when they qualified to file free through the IRS program. An investigation into Intuit was initiated following a ProPublica report that showed the company was using deceptive digital tactics to steer low-income consumers toward its commercial products and away from federally-supported free tax services. Read more on the case from the AG’s Office.