TurboTax Back to Full Speed After Fraud Concerns
After an inquiry into “suspicious” state-tax filings, software maker Intuit is once again letting TurboTax users e-file state returns with the program.
On Thursday the company had stopped transmitting state returns filed via TurboTax because of “an increase in suspicious filings and attempts by criminals to use stolen identity information to file fraudulent state tax returns and claim tax refunds,” Intuit said in a blog post at the time. The company began transmitting state returns again on Friday afternoon Pacific Time after determining that the faked filings “did not result from a security breach of its systems,” according to a follow-up post.
The Minnesota Department of Revenue had stopped accepting TurboTax returns Thursday, saying in a statement (PDF) that “some Minnesota taxpayers have recently found that when they log in to TurboTax to file their tax return, they see that a return has already been filed.” Utah had also raised concerns about suspicious filings. The Minnesota department said there had been no breach of its own computer systems.
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