✅ SECU Tax Advice February, 2024:
"If looking for a paid tax preparer, take your time and chose wisely! Anyone can be paid to do returns if they have obtained a preparer tax identification number."
👉 The FTC bars TurboTax maker Intuit from advertising 'deceptive' free services [link to full story] [January 23, 2024]
- Satisfaction Guaranteed: You may use TurboTax Online without charge up to the point you decide to print or electronically file your tax return. Printing or electronically filing your return reflects your satisfaction with TurboTax Online, at which time you will be required to pay or register for the product.
👉 The
Federal Trade Commission is taking action against tax prep company
H&R Block for allegedly wasting consumers’ time and money. The
company deceptively marketed its services and made them difficult to
downgrade, the FTC claims in an administrative complaint issued Friday. “H&R
Block designed its online products to present an obstacle course of
tedious challenges to consumers, pressuring them into overpaying for its
products,” FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection director Samuel Levine
said in a statement. [February, 23, 2024]
✅ The Legacy SECU Board said this in May, 2022: 
"Although our staff diligently and competently prepared tax returns for several years [10+ years], we've come to believe that members are best served by receiving tax preparation services from..." ... someone else!
... Industry Standard?
100,000+ SECU members thrown directly under the bus and to the wolves?
