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Intuit Plans to Offer Free Phone Tax Advice

Tax-preparation software made by Intuit Inc. is supposed to help taxpayers avoid using accountants.

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An Update on Mint, Formerly the Anti-Quicken

It’s been just over a month since news broke that Intuit, makers of Quicken budgeting software and Turbo Tax, would buy Mint.com for $170 million. Some of Mint’s 1.5 million customers took to blogs and Twitter to complain about the deal and threaten to close their accounts. About 1,500 to 2,000 customers did jump ship, said Aaron Patzer, Mint’s CEO, most within two days of the acquisition announcement.