Democratic lawmakers call for investigation into whether Intuit, H&R Block hid free tax options
Lawmakers call on two federal agencies to investigate tax software giants for allegedly steering customers away from free government-sponsored tax preparation options.
Recent reports claim that tax preparation companies H&R Bloock and TurboTax creator Intuit have been allegedly adding code to tell Google not to list the free versions of their online tax preparation tools. "These companies' actions in hiding Free File [Alliance] from search engine results — and therefore from consumers — in order to artificially inflate profits and deprive low-income consumers of cheaper product merit investigation as unfair and deceptive practices," the group said in one of the letters, which were dated for Thursday and released Friday.
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