Article 6M33K Senator Elizabeth Warren claims TurboTax ‘relentlessly’ upsells customers in letter to FTC

Senator Elizabeth Warren claims TurboTax ‘relentlessly’ upsells customers in letter to FTC

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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has written a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, saying that TurboTax continues to relentlessly upsell" customers while also directing them away from services that would otherwise be free.

As noted in the letter, Warren's staff analyzed TurboTax's services using a sample taxpayer and found that the company attempted to upsell the customer eight times during the tax filing process. Warren writes that in several cases," these solicitations appear to be efforts to mislead customers into thinking that they must pay the extra fees in order to file their taxes when that is not the case." Some show up as full-screen prompts, forcing users to scroll to the bottom to deny the upgrade.

In one instance,...

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