Great... I stopped using Mint after my BK because I didn't want Intuit to have access to my financial life outside of TurboTax and now they'll be able to see my credit history too. 
I guess I might as well start using Mint since they're going to have all the info I don't want them to have anyway.
@DaveInAZ there are two TurboTax free services. The "free" one that tries to upsell you that they have had as long as they have had online software which is basically only good for 1040-EZ and the truly free one that allows full access to their software for those who make less than $36K AGI. If you search "IRS free file" it will take you to the IRS website that lists all those programs, some of them with higher AGI limits (IRS cap is $69K AGI) than TurboTax too. I used the IRS free file version this year and it was cake without the usual attempts to get me to buy.
@Anonymous wrote:Great... I stopped using Mint after my BK because I didn't want Intuit to have access to my financial life outside of TurboTax and now they'll be able to see my credit history too.
I guess I might as well start using Mint since they're going to have all the info I don't want them to have anyway.
@DaveInAZ there are two TurboTax free services. The "free" one that tries to upsell you that they have had as long as they have had online software which is basically only good for 1040-EZ and the truly free one that allows full access to their software for those who make less than $36K AGI. If you search "IRS free file" it will take you to the IRS website that lists all those programs, some of them with higher AGI limits (IRS cap is $69K AGI) than TurboTax too. I used the IRS free file version this year and it was cake without the usual attempts to get me to buy.
Ah, thanks a bunch for that! The other thing is the "free" TurboTax that tries to upsell you is that it limits you to $1500 in interest, over that amount requires another IRS form to list all interest payees separately and TurboTax absolutely requires you to pay for the premium service for that. When you regularly do bank account SUBs it's not hard to hit $1500 in 1099-INTs.
And I've avoided Credit Karma's free tax service because I don't want them to have all my income/tax info in addition to all the credit info they have on me. And that's why CK offers the free tax service, to "better match" you with credit offers by also having your income info. CK already uses some wage reporting service that some employer use (I forget the name) to snag your income info, I checked and my local county government employer doesn't use it. If this deal goes through I'm thinking I'll keep CK but start using a non-Intuit tax service.
@DaveInAZ wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:Great... I stopped using Mint after my BK because I didn't want Intuit to have access to my financial life outside of TurboTax and now they'll be able to see my credit history too.
I guess I might as well start using Mint since they're going to have all the info I don't want them to have anyway.
@DaveInAZ there are two TurboTax free services. The "free" one that tries to upsell you that they have had as long as they have had online software which is basically only good for 1040-EZ and the truly free one that allows full access to their software for those who make less than $36K AGI. If you search "IRS free file" it will take you to the IRS website that lists all those programs, some of them with higher AGI limits (IRS cap is $69K AGI) than TurboTax too. I used the IRS free file version this year and it was cake without the usual attempts to get me to buy.
Ah, thanks a bunch for that! The other thing is the "free" TurboTax that tries to upsell you is that it limits you to $1500 in interest, over that amount requires another IRS form to list all interest payees separately and TurboTax absolutely requires you to pay for the premium service for that. When you regularly do bank account SUBs it's not hard to hit $1500 in 1099-INTs.
And I've avoided Credit Karma's free tax service because I don't want them to have all my income/tax info in addition to all the credit info they have on me. And that's why CK offers the free tax service, to "better match" you with credit offers by also having your income info. CK already uses some wage reporting service that some employer use (I forget the name) to snag your income info, I checked and my local county government employer doesn't use it. If this deal goes through I'm thinking I'll keep CK but start using a non-Intuit tax service.
Since you can't actually opt out of being soft pulled, I'll probably do the same. It's a shame because I like TurboTax. I haven't used anything else as far back as I can remember.
What I'm trying to figure out is what about Credit Karma makes it worth $7B?
No longer near! Done deal!
