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Don't give turbotax your money. If you want free, high-quality tax prep, consider Credit Karma (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/07/when-ta...)

The difference is that they're using your data to target financial products at you (just like any other free service). But they don't sell your data at least.

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You realize Intuit owns Credit Karma now, right?

Square owns Credit Karma Tax. Intuit was required to divest that part of the company as a part of the merger. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-d...

Now it's the same company unfortunately. Intuit completed their acquisition of Credit Karma in Dec, 2020.

https://investors.intuit.com/news/news-details/2020/Intuit-C...

The part you're missing is that as a part of the acquisition, Intuit was required by the Justice Department to divest the "tax" portion of Credit Karma - so no, they're not the same company. Credit Karma, the main app, is Intuit. The tax portion of Credit Karma is not.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-d...

Square owns Credit Karma Tax, not Intuit.