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," James said in a statement. "For years, Intuit misled the most vulnerable among us to make a profit. Intuit will pay for 'Scamming millions of taxpayers' Some low-income filers didn't use federally supported free tax services. WHERE'S MY REFUND TOOL: Taxpayers waiting for refunds find little help from IRS 'Where's My Refund' tool TWO-YEAR WAIT: We fought the IRS, sort of, and finally got someone to answer the phone The Fed announced these aggressive moves to fight it INFLATION FIGHT: Inflation is at a 40-year high. James said her investigation into Intuit was sparked by a ProPublica report in 2019 that found the company used deceptive tactics to steer low-income tax filers away from the federally supported free services for which they qualified – and toward Intuit's own commercial products. Under the terms of a settlement signed by the attorneys general of all 50 states, Mountain View, California-based Intuit will suspend TurboTax’s “free, free, free” ad campaign and pay restitution to nearly 4.4 million taxpayers, New York Attorney General Letitia James said.
NEW YORK – The company behind the TurboTax tax-filing program will pay $141 million to customers deceived by misleading promises of free tax-filing services, New York's attorney general announced Wednesday.
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