Free for a Fee: Intuit's TurboTax Scandal

Tax Notes Talk

Tax Notes reporters Paul Jones and Nathan Richman discuss the $141 million settlement over Intuit’s TurboTax Free Edition program and the potential tax break for Intuit.
For additional coverage, read these articles in Tax Notes:

• TurboTax Settlement May Open the Door to Huge Tax Break
• Intuit, States Enter Settlement Over ‘Free File’ Scandal
• GAO: Taxpayer Use of Free File Waned After Intuit’s Exit
• Intuit’s Ad Campaign for ‘Free’ Tax Software Draws FTC Ire
• Intuit to Exit Free File Alliance
• Intuit Fails to Secure Injunction in Tax Prep 'Bait-and-Switch' Fight
• Intuit Free File Arbitration Strategy Backfires
• New York Governor Calls for Investigation of Tax Return Preparers

In our “In the Pages” segment, Allison Christians, the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Tax Law at McGill University in Montreal, chats about her Tax Notes piece, “Let the GILTI/GLOBE Games Begin.”
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Credits
Host: David D. Stewart
Executive Producers: Jasper B. Smith, Paige Jones
Showrunner and Audio Engineer: Jordan Parrish
Guest Relations: Alexis Hart