Intuit charges big bucks just for ordinary people to pay their taxes. At the same time, they are doing everything they can to sabotage Direct File, the IRS’ free, easy, and popular tax filing tool. It’s a scam, and I'm not letting them get away with it.
And didn’t they contribute (bribe) $1million to the Orange Toad’s little party on Jan 20th?
Wonder how many can’t file electronically after DOGE ransacked the IRS AND SS.
My dad used to work for them
just nationalize them, HR Block, Liberty Tax, etc., and let them all work for the IRS.
That's actually a bad idea. "For $4.99, you can unlock the Child Tax credit! With our silver tier, unlock the Earned Income Credit and the Dependent Care Credit for $9.99! GOLD members can file Advanced Premium Tax Credit, Student Loan Interest Deduction, and Itemized Deductions for $19.99!! etc."
The IRS requires that our taxes be filed digitally and have an active bank account for direct deposit/withdrawal. They should not require that we buy software to file, we should be able to file on their website. Before all this computerized bullshit, all I had to pay was postage.
Adopt your presidential run policy list as pushback to Project 2025! Rally Dem support for these initiatives - public good, economic growth, SSA, protection of voting rights, restoration of choice, financial regs, gun reforms, healthcare, etc. Town Halls. Solid policy blueprint. Cohesive message.
We shouldn’t need these services at all. The government should send us either how much we owe or how much it owed back to us. Corporations and billionaires need to pay taxes. Let’s start there with tax reform.
You can't Direct File if you have a 1099-DIV, which I imagine is a lot of people. So, can you fix that part so I didn't have to use Turbo Tax?
I wrote my own tax tool. I am considering to make it available to public as open source software and free. It is not a full capacity. However more than enough for someone who has low income like me. Everyone, please share your advice and feedback.
This would be great! Reach out if you need some beta testers, happy to dedicate some time/energy to this! Appreciate you!!
I will make it ready after finishing touch, and release to you. It will be available on GitHub. Thank you.
There are other tax tools posted on GitHub, such as “tax-tool”, by wli12345. That one sounds more capable than mine and its layout looks like almost TurboTax, and automated. Sorry for that. I would have to add some legal protection, e.g. a good disclaimer. You may be interested in that one. 😢
Thanks! I filed my taxes a month ago but appreciate the heads up! :D
When I had complicated taxes, I used TurboTax and thought nothing of it. It didn’t cost too much. But now I have simple taxes and I’ve been looking forward to filing for free on the IRS‘s website. I’m old and living on retirement and every dollar helps. Keep this free option.
Respectfully Senator Warren but please most of your base doesn’t care about these issues right at the moment. Most of us WANT YOU TO FIGHT TRUMP FOR US, not TurboTax. Turbo Tax is NOT threatening our Democracy!
Put their CEO on The List with the others…
Thank you for always fighting for us and knowing right from wrong. POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Intuit who is behind them ?
Thank you Sen. Warren.
Respectfully, turbo tax is nowhere near the top of my concerns right now.
They've been doing it for years. It's only this year that they finally were like "yea only 37% qualify"
FreeTaxUSA has been my go to for years. They’ve been great and I’ve never paid a dime.
I used turbotax for years, it always carried my info over. This year, it was telling me I couldn't get the deduction bc my daughter wasn't "eligible for employment in the US". 😑 I spent HOURS on the phone with them, social security, etc, I quit, went to freetax and it all worked perfectly. 😵💫🤬
This is bad behavior on the part of Intuit toward their trusting customer base. Go get ‘em Ms Warren!
I did my taxes myself and filled out all the forms by hand and sent that in the mail. Intuit gets no more of my money.
I gave used TurboTax for many years to do my family taxes in Canada. That ends this year.
Whoever is doing your social media is hopelessly out of touch with what is actually happening in this country right now
My taxes should not pay for other people to do their taxes for free!
If we all could file our taxes for free, could you be sure that my taxes aren't paying for you to file yours? They might be. If so, I'd rather have my tax money help you than to have it go toward bonuses for CEOs of wealthy tax prep companies.
I wonder if this is why most of the larger retailers have transitioned to H&R Block this year?
they want your data to sell.
Wow! I was wondering why filing with Turbotax was priced so high this year! I tried “efile” first, and it was difficult! Thanks for addressing this!
I used FreeFile USA. It was great. Am praying they don’t sabotage it!
It is a f***ing scam. I had a foreign investment of about $10 so TurboTax made us upgrade at $180 because of this piddly little investment due to recieving a 1098 mics form. Yep, read that right. Full on scam.
My husband and I just finished another year volunteering for AARP TaxAide. We do taxes for free for most seniors. Look up your local group next year and make an appointment. Most of these seniors were otherwise being charged up to$300 for someone to do their simple returns.
There are other government-adjacent companies that practice similar shenanigans. They craft an RFB for the government to publish, which contains criteria that only the one company happens to be able to fulfill! One of these companies is in the same town as a major potato chip company.
Keep fighting. Also demand Schumer’s resignation. He’s a limp noodle who doesn’t have the will to fight.
The IRS has ALL of the data necessary to automatically calculate the tax bill of almost every taxpayer. They are prevented from doing this because of legislation bought and paid for by the major tax return corporations, whose livelihood depends on you needing them in the middle.
WTF?? Everyone is crooked and on the take! WTF??
Did my own taxes for the first time since the '80s because I found out Social Security was taxed, and found the instructions less than user-friendly. After a few reviews, figured it out and submitted a 1040sr with two numerical figures and 40 zeros. They complicate it on purpose.
I see comments suggesting this isn't an important topic now. It is. It's about wealthy corporations using political influence to further enrich themselves at our expense. Corporate money buys all kinds of politicians' favors and elections. Stopping that is a crucial goal.
Ever tried to cancel Intuit's QuickBooks? Misnomer. Should be called QuickSand. Or Octopus -- all their tentacles slithering around in your computer -- pop-ups, email, warning messages -- all repeatedly trying to suck you back in. No way in Davy Jones' locker I'd ever use their tax program.
There are always people ripping off the public. cbwrong.blogspot.com?m=1
And they make errors they refuse to fix! Rip-off.
HR Block does still offer free filing, you just have to tell them no like 40 times in the process.
Not all of H&R Block is free to file. I found this out the hard way after getting to the end of our taxes and was required to pay $140 to go further. Mind you, we had no changes from last year to this year either, I checked. 😒 Frustrating to get to the end and be stuck with no way out other than $.
Thank you, Senator!
Grrrl, you have been a dragon-slayer and we love you for it. But we are not fighting the same war. You’re still fighting Cersei while the White Walkers are storming the gates. We need you here, in this fight. So hop on a dragon and burn some shit down.
As a bookkeeper, I fucking hate Intuit! When they switched to subscription only models, I moved as many of my clients as I could to other programs. Bookkeeping software is basically just a database. It should not require a $10 (and up) a month subscription.
You're not talking about TurboTax, though. You're talking about QuickBooks. What other software did you recommend for people?
QuickBooks is owned by Intuit. And QuickBooks had a Monopoly on the market for decades. There are some other players coming out now, but they also have subscription models although they are priced a little better.
The biggest ones I can think of are Xero, Sage and Wave. And don't get me wrong, some businesses do require software with capabilities like this. But a service only business with no employees almost definitely doesn't.
I know QuickBooks is owned by Intuit. It's just that Warren was talking about TurboTax. But thanks for the info on the other accounting software. 👏. I think people often don't want to switch to something they aren't familiar with, but I agree, if you can avoid the monthly fee, do it.
And yes, the reason QB has maintained a monopoly is because people are very reluctant to change accounting softwares.
TurboTax is also owned by Intuit. My point was they are all around a crappy company that benefit the consumer.
freetaxusa.com was awesome! Free federal and $14.99 state.
It's also free state filing if your AGI is under $48k (or if you're active duty military with an AGI under $84k). 🙂
I used it for the first time after someone posted it on Bluesky. Was great! Will never go back to TurboTax.
Same! Glad it worked for you too!
FreeTaxUSA is listed on the IRS website as a "Trusted Partner". I have used them for about 10 years now.
Lasy year was our last year to use Turbo Tax. It gets more expensive to use every year. It’s less expensive if you’re a new user. You would think they’d value existing customers!
And their product is awful but one of the few games in town.
I couldn’t use direct file because I’m a 1099 employee 🙄 this entire system is so outdated
It is a terrible scam and has been for many years. Of course there are ENORMOUS other issues that are very pressing RIGHT NOW. Like constitutional-level issues.
When do we stop paying into it?
Get 'em
Absolutely! I have super easy taxes. Social Security plus a tiny pension ( under $1K/yr). Yet the site keeps recommending that I really need the paid version! It also asks about every item that would require Schedules that are not part of Free Version before revealing the amt of the Std. Deduction.
Why should anyone pay taxes or follow laws anymore? Seems arbitrary who has to pay or what laws are enforced?
It’s like handing Shitler money. 🤮
Never could see why we need to pay some third party to do our taxes.
I just finished my taxes today and was so frustrated by the time I finished because I felt I was bombarded with reasons why I should be paying for the “better plan”. Over and over… it was nuts. I honestly don’t think I will use them again. I did leave them a comment about it too.
"Sasan Goodarzi is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Intuit, where he leads the company in delivering on its mission of powering prosperity around the world." 🙄🙄🙄
Intuit is a scam! Filing taxes should be easy and free
I tried using other tax programs, but in the free ones, I could not get the ACA form I needed to file. Ended up back with turbo tax and $207.00 charge for a simple return with an ACA form.
The stupidest thing is that. The government has to do all the work checking 3rd party stuff, and this is far cheaper.
Yeah. I just paid about $143 to file fed and state.
Talk about how companies let them pay to manipulate online search engine results. You’re trapped between the manipulated results and the draw to file your taxes for free. But when you’re in their portal it’s impossible to file free. But I’m sure they have a bs explanation.
I use Free Tax USA! Free federal , $15 state!!!
Fuck TurboTax since it's a corporate-owned for-profit entity. Use DirectFile instead, you will get more back than what TurboTax would!
I think they need to find a new business. Take their winnings and move on. This tech should be free and provided by the govt.
I wish Direct File were easy. I wasted hours just trying to set up an account using the crappy "ID.ME" program. Gave up in frustration, then tried to submit the form online. But the form was utterly unreadable & inscrutable that way. Finally just filed the old way - printed forms out & mailed them.
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How has Intuit not been broken up as a monopoly? They constantly kill competition for any up and coming financial service product that shows promise to be better than theirs. I've been trapped into using their awful software for decades for personal and business. One of the worst corporations.
How about TaxCut or another software application? Have you tried any others? Why are you trapped?
2x I've migrated to other products only for Intuit to acquire & kill them, pushing me back into the Quicken product lines. It takes a lot of effort to migrate financial data from one platform to another. That's how. If only they didn't raise prices every year for no reason other than they can.
Here's my plan. Expand the IRS to do the jobs the tax prep industry does and then poach all the industry's pencil pushers. This strategy could be used on every sector of the insurance industry too (health, home, auto, etc). Hollow out both industries with government jobs. Bam, problem solved
I wish I knew about Direct File before having my taxes done this year. I feel like it wasn't promoted that hard, which I'm sure was intentional on the part of certain individuals.
I did my taxes here in Canada with Intuit and didn't pay anything
For years TurboTax was the only decent online tax prep. Now there are others & TT doesn't like that they don't get 100% market anymore. I could pay $179 to do my taxes with TT, or $0-$49 w/IRS free tax prep svcs. I used to use TT but now I see they're just like all the other corps...pure greed.
taxes suck
Get ‘em @warren.senate.gov !!!!
We should not have to spend our entire tax return to get our taxes done. If we even get one.
I’ve been complaining about this for years! Filing taxes should be easy and free like it is in other countries. This country is so fkd up 😒
So willing to hurt the very people who probably voted for them and those who didn't. Basically, #Americans!
Goddess Bless You! Go get 'em!
What are you going to do? I don't care nearly as much about this as Trump creating a Authoritarian Oligarchical Autocracy. Please fight that, focus most on that please.
how are you not letting them get away with it. in what 2025 world does any Democrat Senator or House Rep had any affect on anything.
I used to be able to get a decent TurboTax price before they changed it to free tax. Then it tripled. I have since found an actually free tax filing service.
H&R Block as well unless it is AN. simple you have to pay. The IRS knows what we owe, send us a bill or a credit slip. We can dispute if incorrect, that’s the fucking savings. Also, make the 5-% pay taxes.
This was our last year using it. It's gotten way too expensive and it's just not necessary to have it be that much money, especially people with standard deductions and very little going on financially.
Wish I heard about this yesterday…😲😤 I don’t have much confidence in the IRS either.
The solution is for the IRS to automatically do all of this.
DOGE would love to use AI to do this. The problem is that there will be no human to appeal to if it miscalculates or it is just wrong. Plus, the wealthy use all sorts of loopholes and they are really the ones making the calls here.
Can you file your State Taxes on the Direct File site or is it only the Federal?
democracy is under attack impeach americas hitler
Let me tell you about my bench.co nightmare.
I do not use them but honestly states always charge to file state taxes for some reason. Those should be free as well.
I have to admit they did this to me. I was doing my son’s taxes and at random times it would ask me if I wanted to pay for “Plus” I swear I clicked no and stuck with the free basic version next thing I knew there’s a charge on my account for $138
We already had this. You already let them take it away.
@warren.senate.gov I just paid over $300 to turbotax to file federal and two state taxes. Total scam!
Thank you, Senator Warren. Please keep up the good fight for us!!
I thought you already let fElon do that?
How bout we worry about the fascists regime and the disappearing of people, the blatant insider trading by many and the complete disregard for any laws🤬
Americans should not have to pay to file taxes.
Americans should not have to file taxes at all. It’s a scam.
I’ve done taxes for my family members every year using TT. But this is the last year. We were each given different prices for filing and my mother who didn’t owe anything was charged the most. I’m ashamed that we hit submit. We’ll do it on the IRS site next time if it’s still there. Or I won’t pay.
Look up you nearest AARP TaxAide program or VITA program. They file taxes for free.
Respectfully @warren.senate.gov don't you have bigger fish to fry right now? Like a lawless Administration? Insider trading? Just to name a few
Corporate lobbying and corruption like this isn't small fish. The same corporate money buys elections. The tax prep companies are just one part of that big, stinky fish.
Turbo tax has gone in the wrong direction IMO. but i would not file Direct File either. the tax calculation software collects more personal and financial data than necessary to determine your correct tax liability. get the numbers correct and accurate but dont put your information into databases
I paid $143 to file taxes that I OWED on lol.
I paid 229 ... kept making me deny deluxe then at the end bam I'd some how chosen it. Too exasperated by then, so yeah i just paid it
Ha! It took me 20 minutes to get the "Max" version off of there.
Yes they will. Senator Warren you have no teeth. No one will go to jail for this.
Let’s be perfectly clear… When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is ‘the role of Congress’ to remove him from office… Full stop. Any Questions?!
Thank you. I cringe every time I see their ad about free filings. It’s a blatant lie.
It's not really. They say it's free for simple 1040 tax forms. They went through a lawsuit about it and changed their advertising to reflect that.
Total lie!
It absolutely is. My 22-year old used it to file. Kept getting a stupid error code saying to correct his agi from last year. It WAS correct. Kept trying to refile to no avail. Finally paper filed yesterday. Ridiculous.
Why aren't you pushing for the 14th amendment section 3? What's the point of taxes when our rights are being stripped?!?!?!
Thank you Senator for doing more than posting “sternly worded messages of concern.” Your leadership is greatly appreciated and needed right now.
No, you're letting Trump get away with illegal deportations. When the Senate is back in session, you must #obstructeverything to give us more time to organize on the ground. Do you know why I bully you, but not Chuck, anymore? I've given up on Chuck. I think you still have some #fight. Prove it.