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by FatActor 1240 days ago
I've been using TT for decades. Their "tricks" are basically asking you 2 or three times during the process if you want to pay for a new feature. Pretty lame for tricks. But annoying still.

Also: just be rich. They don't investigate non-billionaires. Jeez.

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ProPublica reported extensively on the deceptive tactics they actually use, such as marketing paid services as free, and making the actually free filing site hidden from search engines.

Eventually they ended their participation in the IRS’s free filing program after all 50 states sued them for $141M for scamming the lowest income tax payers into paying unnecessarily.

https://www.propublica.org/series/the-turbotax-trap