Here’s How TurboTax Just Tricked You Into Paying to File Your Taxes
April 22, 20198 min read1659 words
Published: April 22, 2019  |  8 min read1659 words
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April 23, 2019
A super practical article that outlines the many traps set by TurboTax to get people to pay for their service even though those people are entitled to free tax filing. I wish I had this article a couple of years ago. It does target TurboTax pretty directly even though there are other tax filing serves that likely do similar things, but the targetedness allows it to really fully describe the example well.
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