Intuit has moved into assisted tax preparation with its TurboTax Live Full Service. The newly introduced product enables taxpayers to connect with tax experts who will prepare and file their returns.
The system is follows several years of TurboTax Live in which taxpayers can reach tax professional via an in-product link for a limited amount of assisted.
The new service matches taxpayers with preparers based on the tax situations and states of residence and whether they speak Spanish or English.
To use the service, taxpayers upload or import tax documents and connect with the preparer via live video to review a detail summary. Returns are filed by preparers once they receive taxpayer approval.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind
