Tax Act sends multiple promotional emails daily. Attempting to unsubscribe does nothing, and I’ve tried for months.
Finally, today, I opened the browser dev console and see that it’s throwing JS errors when you attempt to save. I’m 100% sure this is a feature and not a bug. The only other way they will remove you is by writing a physical letter and mailing it out to them.
Moral of the story: Do not use TaxAct. Fuck Tax Act.
Tax act used to be good. TLDR, tried to sell to HR Block, then appointed Intuit(TurboTax) Ex CEO as president. Scalping of value and enshittification continued:
"…In October 2010, H&R Block said it would pay $287.5 million in cash to acquire the parent firm of TaxAct.[3] In May 2011 the U.S. Department of Justice attempted to stop the acquisition in an antitrust lawsuit.[4][5] In November 2011, a federal judge sided with the Justice Department, and both companies mutually terminated the contract.[6][7]
In January 2012, 2nd Story Software was sold to Seattle-based Blucora (formerly Infospace, Inc.) for more than $287 million.[8][9][10] In 2013, the name was officially changed to TaxAct Holdings, Inc. Subsequently, in October of the same year, TaxAct acquired Balance Financial, the company that specializes in personal finance tools and services.[11]
In 2018, former Intuit executive Curtis Campbell was appointed as the President of the company.[12]
In November 2022, private equity firm Cinven agreed to acquire TaxAct for about $720 million. Cinven announced it would combine…"
Ah, there it is. Was trying to pinpoint the year it went to crap, and that sounds about right. I don’t remember being annoyed with it until very recently, so that checks out.
They used to be competitive and I used them 10+ years ago then suddenly their rates were crazy and I’ve been using freetaxusa ever since. ~$15 for state and federal
It is owned by Intuit which is scummy company
No it’s not owned by them. Yes Intuit are scummy.