![]() ![]() Many who were eligible for free TurboTax through the IRS program instead used the TurboTax Free Edition * and were deceived into paying, says New York Attorney General Letitia James. Why States Went After TurboTaxįor years, TurboTax parent company Intuit ran an ad campaign claiming it would help consumers do their taxes for “free, free, free.” Authorities say the ads created confusion between a free version of TurboTax that was available through the IRS Free File Program, and the company’s “TurboTax Free Edition” *-which, in fact, was free for only about one-third of U.S. If you wanted to file your taxes for free in recent years and used what you thought was a no-cost version of TurboTax *, you may be owed a chunk of the $141 million agreement. Millions of Americans will receive refunds from TurboTax because they were duped into paying for tax prep that was supposed to be free, according to a nationwide settlement announced by the New York attorney general’s office. ![]()
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