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FTC to put five tax preparation companies on notice

The Federal Trade Commission communicated to five tax preparation companies that they could face penalties of up to $50,120 per violation for the misuse of consumers' confidential data. These preparation tax companies were sharing sensitive information such as finance, marital status, number of children and more and monetizing (getting financial benefit) from the taxpayer /

By |2023-09-25T22:53:08+00:00September 27th, 2023|Categories: Individuals|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Federal Trade Commission – deceptive free claims from TurboTax

Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission FTC released the initial ruling where TurboTax (Intuit) was deceiving customers with the use of "free" tax preparation that required the payment for those services. Also, this initial ruling could be applied to other "free" promotions that are truly not so. As mentioned in CNBC's article, Intuit already had an

By |2023-09-10T00:14:42+00:00September 10th, 2023|Categories: Business, Individuals|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |
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