<story><title>Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit</title><url>https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/29/three-times-is-enemy-action/#ctc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WisNorCan</author><text>Intuit is consistently one of the least ethical actors in tech. They have a monopoly position in many of their products and take advantage of some of the poorest people through misinformation and lobbying.&lt;p&gt;Facebook &amp;amp; Uber have received most of the heat over the past few years. Intuit has strangely avoided the same level of scrutiny.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmckn</author><text>For sure. The IRS needs to offer a tax preparation platform, the grift in this industry is astounding. I&amp;#x27;ve always had decent experiences with TurboTax, but they&amp;#x27;ve gotten extremely good at making your taxes hell if you want to avoid giving them $89.99.</text></comment>
<story><title>Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit</title><url>https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/29/three-times-is-enemy-action/#ctc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WisNorCan</author><text>Intuit is consistently one of the least ethical actors in tech. They have a monopoly position in many of their products and take advantage of some of the poorest people through misinformation and lobbying.&lt;p&gt;Facebook &amp;amp; Uber have received most of the heat over the past few years. Intuit has strangely avoided the same level of scrutiny.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dhosek</author><text>Around 2009 my taxes grew complicated enough that I could no longer do them by hand and had to start using tax software for them. I&amp;#x27;ve consistently refused to use TurboTax because the company is so evil. H&amp;amp;R Block is not necessarily a more ethical company, but at the very least, there&amp;#x27;s not more unethical. (And I&amp;#x27;m vaguely aware of there being some open-source tax software of some sort out there, but when I looked it was kind of janky and didn&amp;#x27;t seem to give me much of an improvement over filling out the forms myself. I&amp;#x27;d love to learn that things have changed.)</text></comment>