NEW YORK (AP) — The company behind the TurboTax tax-filing program will pay $141 million to customers across the United States who were deceived by misleading promises of free tax-filing services, New York’s attorney general announced Wednesday.
Highlights
- Intuit Inc.
- will suspend TurboTax’s “free, free, free” ad campaign and pay restitution to nearly 4.4 million taxpayers, New York Attorney General Letitia James said.
- The company behind the TurboTax tax-filing program will pay $141 million to customers across the United States who were deceived by misleading promises of free tax filing services.
- Intuit executives knew they were deceiving customers by advertising free services that were not in fact free to everyone, documents obtained by ProPublica show.
- “For years, Intuit misled the most vulnerable among us to make a profit,” James said in a statement.