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(48,671 posts) Fri Jan 29, 2021, 02:00 PM Jan 2021

Started with TurboTax. Just signed in, confirmed name, address, etc.

But it immediately invited me to "share tax info with Intuit and its subsidiary." Supposedly to help me with strategies, or something. I decided to skip.

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Started with TurboTax. Just signed in, confirmed name, address, etc. (Original Post) question everything Jan 2021 OP

I use the free version of it CountAllVotes Jan 2021 #1

Turbo tax was also hacked in the past. iemitsu Jan 2021 #2

Wow! Never heard of this. One good reason to decline question everything Jan 2021 #4

Don't they have all the info they need just from one's tax return -- name, address, progree Jan 2021 #5

Precisely. All the changes in the past 20 years! So no need to give them more. question everything Jan 2021 #6

They will give you many opportunities to upgrade. Just say no thanks and move on. LiberalBrooke Jan 2021 #3

CountAllVotes

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1. I use the free version of it

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Fri Jan 29, 2021, 02:07 PM

Jan 2021

I never complete it though.

I print it out and mail it in and never do the electronic filing.

For the rest of YOUR life you get *reminders* from them telling you that you have not submitted your taxes yet and to do so right now!

Right now!

Free version?

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)

2. Turbo tax was also hacked in the past.

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Fri Jan 29, 2021, 02:22 PM

Jan 2021

I have been fighting identity theft issues ever since.

question everything

(48,671 posts)

4. Wow! Never heard of this. One good reason to decline

Reply to iemitsu (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 29, 2021, 06:02 PM

Jan 2021

progree

(11,463 posts)

5. Don't they have all the info they need just from one's tax return -- name, address,

Reply to question everything (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 29, 2021, 06:28 PM

Jan 2021

social security number, a phone number or email address, financial details, to give a hacker a gold mine?

Decline sharing that info so that it doesn't end up on other databases and servers, yes, good idea, but still whoever hacks into wherever TurboTax users' info is kept has got all they could want.

question everything

(48,671 posts)

6. Precisely. All the changes in the past 20 years! So no need to give them more.

Reply to progree (Reply #5)

Fri Jan 29, 2021, 09:34 PM

Jan 2021

LiberalBrooke

(563 posts)

3. They will give you many opportunities to upgrade. Just say no thanks and move on.

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Fri Jan 29, 2021, 02:47 PM

Jan 2021

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