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FTC bans TurboTax from advertising ‘free’ services, calls it deceptive (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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FTC bans TurboTax from advertising ‘free’ services, calls it deceptive::The Federal Trade Commission ruled in a final order and opinion Monday that TurboTax, the popular tax filing software, engaged in deceptive advertising and banned the company from advertising its services for free unless it is free for all customers.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This confuses me too as an Aussie. Partly because we do our taxes July-november, but also because it's just a simple form that's mostly pre-filled here too. Businesses I believe do have a more complicated form to fill out, but as an individual person you just hop online, read through a few pages of pre-filled info (or what most people do: just spam next through it) and you're done. They tell you how much they've recorded you paying in tax, you confirm it, then they tell you how much money you either need to pay or you get refunded (or nothing at all if you got your taxes spot on/don't need to pay tax)

[–] demonsword 1 points 7 months ago

yes, this is similar to how it's done here in Brazil too, except our taxes season is between March and May