“This agreement should serve as a reminder to companies large and small that engaging in these deceptive marketing ploys is illegal.” I think he meant profitable. From Intuit’s perspective this is like a court order to dump out the cup of coffee you bought.

Forget the people who signed up from their ad, let’s add up the money the country has collectively spent (wasted) on CPAs, TurboTax, H&R Block, etc due to the complex income tax code Intuit and friends perpetually lobby to maintain.

Intuit is a parasite on our society. Their newest strategy is to force businesses using QuickBooks into software subscriptions because we all know the logical rules for double entry bookkeeping are constantly in flux /s