Taxes Shouldn’t Be This Taxing

How tax preparation services may actually make your life harder.

Expedia and Reservation.com’s Taxes and Fees

Taxes at Sandals Resorts

Sales Taxes Charged by DoorDash

H&R Block Ad Benefits from Consumer Confusion

Affordable Care Act doesn’t require filing changes this year.

H&R Block More Zero

File both your federal and states taxes online for free? Try again.

House Approves Return to Deceptive Airline Ads

Transparent Airfares Act of 2014 is anything but transparent.

H&R Block: Getting Your Money Will Cost You

You can do your own taxes.

TurboTax Free

Spoiler: Filing your taxes with this product “could cost you money” and those are TurboTax’s words.

Tax 10000

What happens when you read the fine print?

H&R Block

Allegations: Deceptively marketing that consumers can file their taxes for free using H&R Block when most consumers cannot file their taxes for free

DSSRC’s Arbonne Decision Gets It Wrong

Council blesses MLM’s use of unsubstantiated earnings claims.

Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau

In addition to collecting federal excise taxes on alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and ammunition, TTB is also responsible for assuring compliance with federal tobacco and alcohol labeling and marketing requirements.

Tickets on AXS.com

Allegations: Failing to include its service charge in advertised prices and misleadingly calling its service charge “Taxes & Fees”

TINA’s Take: FTC Bars TurboTax Owner from Deceptively Advertising “Free” Tax Prep

It’s not the first time the company has been accused of pulling a bait and switch.

Free Speech, Advertising, and Me

Does free speech protect deceptive advertising?

Tickets on Peek Travel

Allegations: Failing to disclose taxes and fees in advertised prices and using a countdown timer to give consumers a limited amount of time to complete their transactions

Peek

Allegations: Failing to include variable “Taxes & Fees” in advertised prices

Prices of Contact Lenses from Lens.com

Allegations: Misleadingly advertising prices for contact lenses that do not include additional taxes and fees

Crash Proof Retirement’s ‘Inflation Fighters’

TINA.org takes a closer look at company’s claims of ‘guaranteed income.’