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TurboTax accounts for far less than 60% of all U.S. tax returns filed.

The Claim

TurboTax handles about 60% of all United States tax preparation.

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The Short Version

The evidence does not support a 60% share of all U.S. tax preparation. TurboTax appears to hold roughly 60% to 70% of the DIY tax-software market, but total U.S. tax preparation also includes millions of returns handled by paid professionals. Using IRS totals and Intuit’s own filer counts, TurboTax’s share of all returns is far below 60%.

Caveats

  • The claim conflates TurboTax’s share of the DIY/software segment with its share of the entire tax-preparation market.
  • “Handles” is undefined and could mean users, returns filed, or software market share; those are not interchangeable.
  • Company promotional figures should not be read as proof of total-market dominance without comparison to IRS-wide return counts.

The Receipts

  1. Filing Season Statistics for Week Ending May 3, 2024

    Internal Revenue Service

  2. Intuit TurboTax Launches New Ways to File With Expanded Ease and Speed to Help 69 Million Filers This Tax Season

    Intuit

  3. Intuit Inc. Form 10-K for fiscal year ended July 31, 2024

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

  4. SOI Tax Stats – Individual Income Tax Returns Line Item Estimates

    Internal Revenue Service

  5. Filing Season Statistics

    Internal Revenue Service

  6. Intuit Q4 and Full Fiscal Year 2024 Earnings Presentation

    Intuit

  7. Intuit Reports Strong Second-Quarter Fiscal 2021 Results

    Intuit Investor Relations

  8. Intuit Inc. Form 10-K (example recent annual filing)

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

  9. Tax Filing: Use of Paid Preparers and IRS Free File Program

    U.S. Government Accountability Office

  10. Inside TurboTax’s 20‑Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free

    ProPublica

+ 20 more sources — see the full list on Lenz

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