FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Sasirin Pamai)

The Federal Tra... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1966820 #turbotax #policy #intuit #ftc

Ars Technica: FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” https://arstechnica.com/?p=1966820 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #TurboTax #Policy #Intuit #FTC

Ars Technica: TurboTax-maker Intuit offers an AI agent that provides financial tips https://arstechnica.com/?p=1965752 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #confabulation #hallucination #generativeai #IntuitAssist #creditkarma #Quickbooks #MailChimp #AIethics #TurboTax #ChatGPT #chatgtp #Biz&IT #Intuit #GPT-4 #Tech #AI

TurboTax-maker Intuit offers an AI agent that provides financial tips - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

On Wednesday, TurboTax-maker In... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1965752 #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #confabulation #hallucination #generativeai #intuitassist #creditkarma #quickbooks #mailchimp #aiethics #turbotax #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz⁢ #intuit #gpt-4 #tech #ai

#Intuit now using #AI for #tax #advice https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/talk-to-your-taxes-turbotaxs-new-ai-agent-makes-it-possible/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

What's this ancient UI element behind the QuickBooks updater dialog window? Smells like shoddy code or lazy developers to me.

#Intuit #Quickbooks

Warning: Quickbooks Rant!

I'm not CW'ing this because I hope #Quickbooks or #Intuit somehow see it.

I've used Quickbooks since 2004 and its iOS apps the past 5-6y. The apps have never been as good as the full website experience (QBOnline), and that's not uncommon for many services I use. However, the app is not getting better. If anything it's getting worse! Crashes a lot. It's hard to find things you use a lot, like taking payments. Forgets that your card reader is there and has to keep reconnecting. Takes way too many clicks to find customers and items for invoices. Almost unusable dt the awkward moments spent in front of a client while their arm grows numb from holding their card out for payment. Compare that with Square, which I use for my art/writing business. Quick, easy sales interface and takes payments really fast. It's often done before I'm done making small talk.

Here's the part that really chaps my ass: I pay $35/month for Quickbooks Online whereas Square is free. Square doesn't do all the accounting stuff, obviously, but still-- Quickbooks, in all it's years of existing and taking my money, can't give me an app that doesn't make me want to rip my hair out?? I think that Intuit just knows it doesn't have to really do anything for the little guy. They can just keep stealing my money and giving me peanuts. I'm ready to change.

This Is How We Finally Kill Turbotax

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NvEEJdHffaQ&feature=share

#Intuit

@b_fung The inability to guarantee the #security and #privacy of #taxpayer data would be catastrophic for a voluntary self-assessment system such as we have in the #unitedstates. The #IRS has traditionally regarded major #tax prep firms like #Block and #Intuit as partners. It is finding out now that at least some of these firms viewed the #partnership as a one-way street.

I just filed my 2022 tax returns. Held my nose and paid Intuit $25 to e-file the CA return. I hate that company.
#intuit #turbotax

Thanks for asking me to complete a survey, #Intuit. I'd be happy to give feedback.

Oh, you don't want my feedback now?

#Intuit using the money people pay them to help with their taxes to turn around and lobby the government to keep taxes hard to file tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the United States.

They are aided in this endeavor by swivel-eyed lunatic anti-tax obsessives, like #GroverNordquist and #AmericansForTaxReform, who argue that paying taxes should be as difficult and painful as possible in order to foment opposition to taxation itself.

The tax-prep industry is dominated by a single firm, #Intuit, who took over tax-prep through its #anticompetitive acquisition of #TurboTax, itself a chimera of multiple companies gobbled up in a decades-long merger orgy.

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Attorney General Taylor Announces Distribution of $477,000 to 15,568 Alaskans Deceived by TurboTax Owner Intuit
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Consumers to Receive Checks in the Mail from Multistate Settlement Without Needing to File a Claim

(Anchorage, AK) – Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor...
https://alaska-native-news.com/attorney-general-taylor-announces-distribution-of-477000-to-15568-alaskans-deceived-by-turbotax-owner-intuit/67650/
#turbotax #intuit #reimbursments #settlement #deception #alaska

https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-new-york-united-states-personal-taxes-2427cfbc220382ca89ac992f6dde8030

#Intuit to pay $141M #settlement over ‘free’ #TurboTax ads

States Prepare to Send Checks to Consumers Tricked Into Paying for TurboTax
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A year after a $141 million settlement with Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, that emerged from an investigation sparked by ProPublica’s reporting, 4.4 million customers will receive compensation.

#TurboTax #Intuit #Taxes #Lawsuit #Tax

https://www.propublica.org/article/consumers-to-receive-checks-turbotax-settlement?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip

Intuit:
🎵 Fenytola

#Intuit

https://open.spotify.com/track/3T3gf6CExIpab7LOud2UpO

https://compostrecords.bandcamp.com/track/fenytola-feat-doug-carn-ray-obiedo

Ooh, #actualBudget looks like it might be exactly what I need. Just need to be able to import transactions and categorize to keep a handle on my spending.

Up and running locally in about 5 minutes. ✅ Imported transactions and categorizing the heck out of things 3 minutes later. ✅

Now frustrated that I can't spend the day doing this, but... #caregiver duties call...

(goodbye #intuit #mint -- I was never comfortable with them having access to my accounts)

#personalFinance

When GOP Attorneys General Embraced Jan. 6, Corporate Funders Fled.
Now They’re Back.
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Even as the Republican Attorneys General Association has leaned further into promoting Trumpism and sowing doubt about U.S. elections, major sponsors including #Amazon, #Walmart and #HomeDepot have resumed their contributions to the group.

#GOP #Elections #RAGA #AttorneysGeneral #Visa #CapitalOne #MasterCard #Intuit #Walgreens #GM #Altria #Comcast

https://www.propublica.org/article/raga-gop-jan6-amazon-walmart-comcast-contributions?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

They've figured out how to send those fake #GeekSquad renewal notices through #Intuit's notification system, which is in my contact list so they come to my inbox.