California taxpayers will receive roughly $11.4 million through a nationwide settlement totaling $141 million with Intuit. The company was accused in a lawsuit of deceptively advertising TurboTax products as 'free' online when they were not, the plaintiffs announced Wednesday.
California taxpayers will receive roughly $11.4 million through a nationwide settlement totaling $141 million with Intuit. The company was accused in a lawsuit of deceptively advertising TurboTax products as"free" online when they were not, the plaintiffs announced Wednesday.
"We stood up for taxpayers who should never have been misled into paying for tax services they were entitled to get for free. But that's what we allege happened here," Feuer said."Hundreds of thousands of customers now will get money back -- and the practices we alleged at Intuit won't be able to continue."
Intuit's Freedom Edition product through the IRS Free File Program allows eligible filers to file for free, but in 2007 Intuit launched"Free Edition" that was only free for"simple returns."