Comments on: TurboTax Online Review, New Features http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/turbotax-online-review-new-features/ A premier personal finance blog, established 2003. Within, Flexo discusses his own experiences with money, and he and other authors comment on a wide range of personal finance topics. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:01:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jim http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/turbotax-online-review-new-features/comment-page-1/#comment-205744 Jim Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:05:58 +0000 http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/?p=8480#comment-205744 I have been using TurboTax for about 20 years. There was I time when I advised people that TTax alone was sufficient reason to buy a computer. No longer. With the latest incarnation Intuit has made it virtually impossible to maintain any personal privacy - this from a company who should be maintain the highest possible level of integrity wrt their customers' most sensitive financial data. Reading the EULA makes it clear that they can no longer be relied upon to maintain the security of my data and the privacy rights of my family. Attempted installation of TTax 2009 confirms that the practices of Intuit are intrusive and unacceptable. To top it all off, when you buy the package (I have Premier Fed and State), there is no way to get the state modules without going online and compromising your local security software. It's clear that Intuit's direction is toward trying to force users into the online tax prep service. There is no reason why tax prep can't be done with software local to the taxpayer's personal computer - forcing the movement of sensitive personal/financial information toward Intuit's servers only makes sense if they plan to tap into it (Intuit?) for profiling and marketing purposes. RIP TurboTax. You were once great but no longer trustworthy. Sad. I have been using TurboTax for about 20 years. There was I time when I advised people that TTax alone was sufficient reason to buy a computer. No longer. With the latest incarnation Intuit has made it virtually impossible to maintain any personal privacy – this from a company who should be maintain the highest possible level of integrity wrt their customers’ most sensitive financial data.

Reading the EULA makes it clear that they can no longer be relied upon to maintain the security of my data and the privacy rights of my family. Attempted installation of TTax 2009 confirms that the practices of Intuit are intrusive and unacceptable.

To top it all off, when you buy the package (I have Premier Fed and State), there is no way to get the state modules without going online and compromising your local security software. It’s clear that Intuit’s direction is toward trying to force users into the online tax prep service. There is no reason why tax prep can’t be done with software local to the taxpayer’s personal computer – forcing the movement of sensitive personal/financial information toward Intuit’s servers only makes sense if they plan to tap into it (Intuit?) for profiling and marketing purposes.

RIP TurboTax. You were once great but no longer trustworthy.

Sad.

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