#TURBOTAX RETURN STATUS FOR FREE#
#TURBOTAX RETURN STATUS FREE#

#TURBOTAX RETURN STATUS FREE#

You must have used TurboTax’s Free Edition * to file your return in any of the 2016 through 2018 tax years. Here are the criteria you must meet to be eligible for a payment:

(Note that the refund amount is only about half of what a person would pay for the cheapest nonfree TurboTax plan, priced at $59 a year.) The settlement will pay certain TurboTax customers roughly $30 for each tax year they paid to use the TurboTax Free Edition *, up to a maximum of three years. The company says the agreement with the states now makes the FTC’s suit “entirely unnecessary.” There’s been no word from the regulatory agency. Separately, the Federal Trade Commission is pursuing a lawsuit against Intuit over the marketing of its free filing options. The company has agreed to pay restitution to roughly 4.4 million taxpayers and make changes to its advertising practices.

Intuit has admitted no wrongdoing as part of the settlement, reached with all 50 state attorneys general and Washington, D.C. “Today, every state in the nation is holding Intuit accountable for scamming millions of taxpayers, and we’re putting millions of dollars back into the pockets of impacted Americans,” says James, in a May 4 news release.

#TURBOTAX RETURN STATUS FOR FREE#

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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