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“Intuit is — and has been for two decades — deeply committed to providing free tax preparation and filing for those who need it most,” the company said in a blog post Monday, calling the new IRS deal “a significant step forward.” H&R Block also announced in a press release on the same day as the IRS deal update that its tax pro Go virtual tax preparation service is now available for $99 at more than 3,300 Walmart stores. Current policies limit each user to a total of no more than 10 requests per second, regardless of the number of computers used to send requests. To ensure that SEC.gov remains available to all users, we reserve the right to block IP addresses that make excessive requests. To ensure that our site works well for all users, the SEC monitors the frequency of requests for content SEC.gov to ensure that automated searches do not interfere with the ability of others to access content SEC.gov. We reserve the right to block IP addresses that make excessive requests. Current policies limit users to a total of no more than 10 requests per second, regardless of the number of computers used to send requests. The IRS has yet to announce plans to offer its own tax filing service, but the new deal paves the way for that, which could significantly disrupt the commercial tax filing industry. Intuit, H&R Block and other major tax preparation software companies no longer have the right to hide their free sign-up services from Google or other search results pages under a new agreement with the Internal Revenue Service. Previously, the IRS promised not to compete directly with the online tax filing market in exchange for FFA companies that offer free filing services to taxpayers earning less than $69,000 — about 100 million Americans, or 70 percent of all taxpayers.
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