Turbotax has emailed me SIX TIMES TODAY???? TODAY??? ONE DAY???
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The fact that it’s December and turbotax is trying to offer me a “sneak peek” of my taxes is just MORE FUCKING PROOF that the government could EASILY TELL US HOW MUCH WE OWE THEM. If this PRIVATE COMPANY already knows!!! AT THE BEGINNING OF DECEMBER!!
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This AI Model Can Intuit How the Physical World Works
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.
Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If the board keeps going past the glass, as if it weren’t there, are they surprised? Many 6-month-olds are, and by a year, almost all children have an intuitive notion of an object’s permanence, learned…
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Intuit to pay OpenAI over $100 million for model access, ChatGPT integrates with TurboTax
Heads up warning for anybody who uses TurboTax to file taxes, now they’re shoving chatGPT into it so absolutely avoid using it so you don’t get fucked over by AI slop. Seeing people suggest FreeTaxUSA or straight paper forms as alternates.
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Intuit — A Duality of Being (2025)
A poster exploring the intersection of humanity and technology.
Inspired by anime futurism and existential philosophy, “Intuit” questions the emotional cost of digital life.
Designed with MidJourney and Photoshop, the work merges nostalgia, futurism, and cyberpunk aesthetics — a reflection on duality, instinct, and identity.
(© Muvva Fudge — Kay Ibrahim)
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New report from Intuit Mailchimp outlines strategies for the expanded holiday shopping cycle
New report from Intuit Mailchimp outlines strategies for the expanded holiday shopping cycle. Marketers have clear opportunities to reach customers, regardless of whether or not they’re offering deals or are operating outside of traditional shopping periods, says Intuit.
Read the full article
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Intuit Inc (INTU) This fall 2025 Earnings Name Transcript
Intuit Inc (NASDAQ:INTU) This fall 2025 Earnings Convention Name August 21, 2025 4:30 PM ET
Firm Members
Kimberly Anderson Watkins – Vice President of Investor RelationsSandeep Singh Aujla – Government VP & CFOSasan Okay. Goodarzi – CEO, President & Director
Convention Name Members
Aleksandr J. Zukin – Wolfe Analysis, LLCAlexander Wexler Markgraff – KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., Analysis…
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Heads Up, Intuit Users!
Quick update for everyone using Intuit integrations: they’re rolling out some changes to their developer program starting July 28, 2025.
This means new partner tiers and a shift to consumption-based API pricing. Basically, how your integrations talk to Intuit is getting a little tweak!
But don’t stress! Pell Software has your back. 😉
We’re already on top of this. Our team is proactively monitoring API usage for all your integrations to make sure everything keeps running smoothly. If anything needs adjusting, we’ll be in touch to work it out together!
And there’s exciting news too! 🚀
Intuit is also launching new APIs like Payroll Compensation and a new Projects API. These could seriously level up your current integrations! We’re looking into how these new tools can add even more value for you.
Got questions? Drop them in the comments or head over to our site to learn more about how we keep your business integrations running flawlessly!
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Strive CEO Urges Intuit to Embrace Bitcoin After GameStop’s Crypto Move
Following his successful push for GameStop to invest in Bitcoin (BTC), Strive Asset Management CEO Matt Cole is now urging Intuit, the financial software giant, to reconsider its stance on cryptocurrency. In a letter to Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi and board chair Susan Nora Johnson, Cole expressed concern over what he perceives as “censorship policies” and an “anti-bitcoin bias” within the company,…
Strive CEO Urges Intuit to Embrace Bitcoin After GameStop’s Crypto Move
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Into it: Clippers-Rockets
It’s been a while since i last checked out and NBA game and chanced upon tickets in resale.. Intuit dome is awesome!
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Intuit ‘Grow Your Business’ commercial
Intuit #abancommercials #commercial Video Intuit 'Grow Your Business’ commercial, actor, actress, girl, cast, song
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Musk steals a billion dollars from low-income Americans and sends it to Intuit
Musk steals a billion dollars from low-income Americans and sends it to Intuit
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Musk steals a billion dollars from low-income Americans and sends it to Intuit
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Let me tell you about the most wasteful US federal government spending I know about. It’s a humdinger. You and everyone you know are mired in it for weeks, or perhaps months, every year. It will cost you, personally, thousands of dollars over your lifetime. I’m talking about filing your taxes.
Not paying your taxes. Paying your taxes is fine. It keeps the country running, though not because the government needs our “tax dollars” to pay for things. The government annihilates the money it taxes away from us, and creates new money to pay for programs. The USA needs US citizens’ dollars to build highways the same way Starbucks needs its Starbucks gift cards to make lattes – that is, not at all:
https://theglobepost.com/2019/03/28/stephanie-kelton-mmt/
I’m talking about filing your taxes. In nearly every case, a tax return contains a bunch of things the IRS already knows: how much interest your bank paid you, how much your employer paid you, how many kids you have, etc etc. Nearly everyone who pays a tax-prep place or website to file their tax return is just sending data to the IRS that the IRS already has. This is insanely wasteful.
In most other “advanced” countries (and in plenty of poorer countries, too), the tax authority fills in your tax return for you and mails it to you at tax-time. If it looks good to you, you just sign the bottom and send it back. If there are mistakes, you can correct them. You can also just drop it in the shredder and hire an accountant to do your taxes for you, if, for example, you run a small business, or are self-employed, or have other complex tax needs. A tiny minority of tax filers fall into that bucket, and they keep the tax-prep industry in other countries alive, albeit in a much smaller form than in the USA.
In the US, we have a duopoly of two gigantic tax-prep outfits: H&R Block, and Intuit, owners of Turbotax. These companies make billions from low-income, working Americans every year, charging them to format a bunch of information the IRS already has, and then sending it to the IRS on their behalf. These companies lobbied like crazy for the right to tax you when you pay your taxes.
In 2003, it looked like the IRS would start sending Americans pre-completed returns, so H&R Block and Turbotax went into lobbying overdrive, whipping up a “public private partnership” called the “Free File Alliance,” that promised to do free tax prep for most Americans. But once the threat of IRS free filing was killed, they turned Free File into a sick joke. Americans who tried to use Free File were fraudulently channeled into filing products that cost money – sometimes hundreds of dollars – to use, a fact that was only revealed after the taxpayer had spent hours keying in their information. Free File sites were also used to peddle unrelated financial products to tax filers, with deceptive language that implied that buying these services was needed to file your return:
[[MORE]]The big winner from the Free File scam was Intuit, which bought Turbotax in 1993. They made about one billion dollars per year ripping off Americans they’d promised to file free tax returns for. After outstanding work by Propublica, lawmakers and the IRS were finally pressured to create an IRS-based free filing service that would cut Intuit out of the loop. Intuit went on a lobbying blitz without parallel, giving out $3.5m in bribes in 2022 in a bid to kill the Treasury Department’s study of a free filing service:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/20/turbotaxed/#counter-intuit
In 2022, nearly every US state attorney general settled their lawsuits against Intuit for the Turbotax ripoff, bringing in $141m:
https://www.agturbotaxsettlement.com/Home/portalid/0
In 2023, the FTC won a case against Intuit over the scam:
But Intut was undeterred. They came back in 2023 with a campaign to say that ripping off American tax-filers was antiracist and anyone who wanted the IRS to make filing free was, therefore, a racist:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/27/predatory-inclusion/#equal-opportunity-scammers
Strangely, no one bought that one. By May, 2023 the IRS had announced its own, in-house free file program:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/17/free-as-in-freefile/#tell-me-something-i-dont-know
Now, no one is forcing you to use this program. Do you have a family accountant that your grandparents started using in the Eisenhower administration? Just keep going to them. Do you like using Turbotax? Keep using it! Wanna do your own taxes? Here’s the forms:
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040s.pdf
But if you want to file your taxes for free, and you earn $125,000/year or less, here’s the IRS’s service:
https://www.irs.gov/filing/irs-direct-file-for-free
Better use it quick, though. Elon Musk has just announced that he’s killing it. Yeah, I know, no one elected him. That doesn’t seem to matter to anyone, least of all Democrats on the Hill, who are still showing up for work every day and trying to engender a “spirit of comity” rather than screaming and throwing eggs:
https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-musk-18f-6a4dc35a92f9f29c310721af53f58b16
Musk called IRS free file a “far left” program and announced that he had “deleted it.” By the way, the median Trump voter’s income is about $72k, meaning more than half of Trump voters qualified for free file:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps-working-class-support/
If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/11/doubling-up-on-paperwork/#rip-freefile
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Tech news: Intuit announces Intuit Assist for QuickBooks
Tech news: Intuit announces Intuit Assist for QuickBooks
Plus, Deloitte releases four new accelerators on Workiva marketplace; KPMG invests $100 million in Google Cloud Alliance; and other accounting tech news.
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PR Week: CEOs on podcasts – PR masterstroke or minefield?
Is a podcast any different to any other media opportunity?
Perhaps some organisations see podcasts as a form of amateur, on-demand radio, a nice-to-do rather than a valuable option for media exposure. They couldn’t be more wrong.
Perhaps that was the case for Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi, who took part on the Decoder podcast recently.
Mr Goodarzi spoke about his success with the Intuit software giant, which owns Mailchimp amongst other platforms, but as the conversation moved onto wider topics, he clearly became uncomfortable.
There are issues regarding tax reform in the United States and a refund that Intuit made to low-income Americans who paid for Intuit services when they could have filed their returns for free.
Company spokespeople need to be prepared for questions that relate to their wider experiences and knowledge, above and beyond the focus that they anticipated for an interview in the first place.
Knowing how to navigate these hurdles, through robust preparation and the ability to adapt to an interviewer’s angle, is fundamental for anyone taking part in any interview, pitch or presentation.
It’s the failure of spokespeople and their teams not to anticipate the possibility of wider contextual questioning and any self-respecting interviewer is well within their rights to broach difficult topics.
Intuit then made the situation worse by asking for that segment of the podcast to be deleted and accusing the host of being “inappropriate” and “disappointing.
We commented in PR Week about this incident and said: “Having robust answers to other potential talking points is fundamental, as is the competence to handle difficult questions you may not want to answer,” he says.
“To ask for content approval or editorial control for anything other than a factual error speaks of a significant lack of understanding about editorial integrity and undermines the credibility of the speaker and the organisation that they represent.”
There are more than 546 million podcast listeners worldwide and almost half the US population listen to a podcast at least once a month.
In 2024, worldwide podcast ad spending is estimated to hit $4.02 billion, underlining the value brands achieve when associating with shows and platforms.
Ultimately, a podcast is a media opportunity just like any other. Spokespeople should treat them that way and see them as an opportunity to speak to target audiences.
To read our comments and those of others in the PR Week (£) article, please click HERE
And if you need support with messaging or media training, get in touch.
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🎉❤️ Great news! My green-certified, small business, @fusion.essentials.llc, was honored with the Electrification Mini-Grant! Thank you to @greenbusinessca and @intuit for your support and encouragement in helping small green businesses thrive!!! ❤️🎉
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Intuit Asks The Verge To Delete Part Of Interview With Its CEO; The Verge Declined
Intuit wants a portion of an interview with its CEO to be deleted. Guess they don’t want the American people to know what they think about tax reform.