Anyone making less than $66,000 a year canfile their taxes for free.
Oftentimes, that’s easier said than done.
Locating Intuit’s free service, however, requires a lot of work, according to ProPublica.
The reason: Intuit doesn’t offer its free version from its website, ProPublica said.
ProPublica discovered the free version for filers with less than $66,000 in income is called theFreedom Edition.
Once the publication had that information, a Google search brought up the right result.
But the Intuit site still tried to channel ProPublica back to a for-pay version, it said.
TurboTax also offers a product calledFree Edition, a no-cost version for users with simple filings.
TurboTax spokesman Rick Heineman said pricing for TurboTax products is listed on the company’sProducts & Pricingpage.
“This information is made clear to customers before they begin to file,” he wrote.
Heineman said the TurboTax Free File Program “contains no cross-marketing or selling of ancillary products or services.”
