The TurboTax settlement covers tax years 2016 through 2018. Intuit said in its own statement Wednesday that it 'already adheres to most of these advertising practices and expects minimal impact to its business from implementing the remaining changes going forward.' Kerry McLean, its general counsel and executive vice president, emphasized that Intuit admitted no wrongdoing and remains 'clear and fair with its customers.' Who's eligible for a TurboTax refund? Still, the settlement requires the company to stop misrepresenting its products and make its disclosures clearer, in addition to implementing other consumer-friendly improvements. Intuit pulled out of the official IRS Free File initiative last year, though the company continues to allow some customers to file taxes for free. To do this, it allegedly changed the name of its filing services multiple times (including calling the commercial version 'Free Edition'), hid its IRS Free File webpage from search engines, and made specifics about pricing and eligibility hard to find. TurboTax was accused of funneling people seeking the the IRS Free File offer to its own 'freemium' product, which was widely advertised as free but actually charged fees to many customers. The agreement comes after New York and other states investigated TurboTax for encouraging customers to use paid tax prep options when they could have filed at no charge through the IRS Free File, a partnership between the government and several name-brand softwares to help Americans below certain income levels do their annual taxes.

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