FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign

Re:FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing ... by aidangrimshaw on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @06:12PM (#30849041)

Yeah, currently the user would print out the PDF generated by the site and mail it in to the IRS. E-filing is on the roadmap, but registering as an E-file provider is a pretty complex process. One of the options we were thinking about is scraping and automatically filling in fields on the free fillable forms site https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

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Re:FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing ... by freedomben on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @06:22PM (#30849125)

I worked on designing and implementing e-file a few years back for a startup. Happy to answer any questions or give any advice if y'all want it

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Re:FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing ... by ehsankia on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @08:09PM (#30849997)

> but registering as an E-file provider is a pretty complex process

Sounds like yet another thing the e-filing lobby worked to ensure their monopoly...

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Re:FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing ... by formerkrogeremp on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @08:32PM (#30850179)

Intuit and H&R Block have been lobbying for decades against tax filing. https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...

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Re:FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing ... by dataflow on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @06:17PM (#30849081)

Cool! Autofilling those forms sounds like an awesome thing if you can manage it! Best of luck! And thanks for doing this!

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