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Company: Intuit, Inc.
Current Parent Company: Intuit
Parent at the Time of the Penalty Announcement:  subscribe to see this data field
Penalty: $141,000,000
Year: 2022
Date: May 4, 2022
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Intuit agreed to pay $141 million restitution in a settlement with 50 States resolving allegations that its TurboTax business deceived customers into paying for tax services that were advertised as free by using unfair trade practices of confusingly similar names and blocking search results for its free services.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: California
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: information technology
Specific Industry of Current Parent: software
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