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.
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