![]() The company responded by removing the product activation scheme from its product. In 2003, Intuit faced vocal criticism for its TurboTax activation scheme. Instead, it prompts the user for their login name and password at the financial institution or permits the data to be entered by hand. The programming error was reportedly fixed, but as of 2012 TurboTax offers no option to download a data file directly from the financial institution. In 2001, TurboTax saved financial institution passwords entered by users to servers at Intuit and the home computer. The process is similar for states that collect income taxes. TurboTax normally releases its new versions as soon as the IRS completes revisions to the forms and approves the TurboTax versions, usually late in the tax year. Typically, TurboTax federal software is released late in the year and the state software is released mid-January to mid-February. The TurboTax software provides taxpayers additional support for their self-prepared returns by offering Audit Defense from TaxResources, Inc. ![]() The software is designed to guide users through their tax returns step-by-step. TurboTax is available for both federal and state income tax returns. There are a number of different versions, including TurboTax Deluxe, TurboTax Premier, etc. ![]() Intuit Corporation, which owns Intuit, is headquartered in Mountain View, California. Intuit Consumer Tax Group is based in San Diego, California. TurboTax has tricked military service members to pay to use the filing software by creating and promoting a "military discount" and by making the free version hard to find when many service members are in fact eligible to use the software for free. Īs part of an agreement with the IRS Free File program, TurboTax allowed individuals making less than $39,000 a year to use a free version of TurboTax a 2019 ProPublica investigation revealed that TurboTax deliberately made this version hard to find, even through search engines, and that it deceptively steered individuals who search for the free version to TurboTax versions that cost money to use. Intuit is under investigation by multiple state attorneys general, as well as New York State Department of Financial Services. Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, has lobbied extensively against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) creating its own online system of tax filing like those that exist in most other wealthy countries. The company has been subject of controversy over its political influence and deceptive business practices. Chipman of Chipsoft in 1984 and was sold to Intuit in 1993. TurboTax is a market leader in its product segment, competing with H&R Block Tax Software and TaxAct. TurboTax is a software package for preparation of American income tax returns, produced by Intuit. Intuit Consumer Tax Group headquarters in San Diego (where TurboTax is developed)
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![]() The fish is everything that describes a predator, from being undoubtedly scary to having the largest teeth relative to its head size. While the Sloane’s viperfish is a bioluminescent creature, it does not translate to being attractive. Unlike the red-lipped batfish secluded in Ecuador and Peru, the Sloane’s Viperfish occupies almost all marine waters in the temperate and tropical oceans, living between depths of 1,000 and 2,000 meters. Scientific Name: Chauliodus sloani (c) Brian Suda Monkfish are tasty, delicious menus in high-end restaurants despite their unappealing looks. These fishes can change their body color to match their surroundings, helping them prey on other species. However, these fishes are also known as sea devils due to their horrific looks, with large, depressed heads, small eyes, fang-like teeth, and mottled skin that makes the rest of the body appear like an appendage. The North Sea and North Atlantic fishermen call fishes from the genus Lophius “Monkfish.” However, its unpopularity results from a small geographical range, occurring in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador and the outskirts of Peru, where they prefer to walk on the ocean floor than swim. The ugly fish is not a prominent aquatic figure as you may expect. Scientists suggest that red-lipped batfishes use their large, bright-colored lips to attract mates. The red-lipped batfish even looks uglier with a ‘beard,’ ‘mustache,’ ‘horn’ on its forehead, a large ‘nose,’ and an odd-shaped body. They are bony fishes with huge heads and crescent-shaped mouths, usually dark gray to dark brown.Īngler fishes are famed for their fleshy piece of dorsal fins that extends over their mouth and illuminates to attract prey.ĭespite being one of the ugliest fish species, they are not the kind of fish you would love to encounter as their plenty sharp, translucent teeth and large size, reaching 4.3 feet long, are enough to scare you. It isn’t very pleasant to say that none of the 200+ angler fish species is easy on the eye, but we have to say it still. Scientific Name: Linophrynidae The Angler Fish looks better in water in water. Researchers drawing similarities between the frilled shark and living fossils tells what you need to know about this fish. Like the big, bad, ugly wolf, the frilled shark is also large and fearsome, surpassing six feet in length with about 300 curved, needle-like teeth. It inhabits marine waters like other shark species, occupying the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, where its color, length, and rear fin placement distinguish it from other sharks. The frilled shark is an example of what happens when evolution does not give a creature the aesthetic pleasure humans are used to. Scientific Name: Chlamydoselachus anguineus However, it looks less ugly in its natural habitat than out of water. The blobfish lives in a high-pressure environment between 600 and 1,200 meters deep ocean. The fish’s name comes from its lifetime routine of gently bobbing around the deep sea thanks to its gelatinous appearance aiding its buoyancy. The smooth-head fish is a foot-long and pink, with soft bones and few muscles. It won the poll to emerge as a mascot for its attractiveness, and such a proposition is not far from right. The public voted for the blobfish via a poll as the Ugly Animal Preservation Society mascot in 2013. The most attractive ones often hit the posters however, the blobfish has made history as an unlikely poster creature. Scientific Name: Psychrolutes marcidus (c) James Joel Conclusion: Ugly fish species have got to be weird to survive The Ugliest Fish in the World’s Oceans & Seas 1. |
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