Intuit keeps your personal data — including your tax records and financial information — even after you close your account, for as long as it decides is necessary for legal, business, or fraud prevention purposes.
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There is no fixed maximum retention period defined for sensitive financial and tax data, meaning Intuit could retain your full tax return history and financial records indefinitely under the broad justification of 'legitimate business needs' or legal claims.
Intuit's updated privacy statement now explicitly discloses that it shares limited personal information, such as IP addresses and device identifiers, with advertising partners to deliver targeted ads…
Closing your Intuit account does not guarantee deletion of your sensitive financial data; Intuit retains the discretion to keep your tax returns, bank account details, and credit information for undefined periods after you stop using its services.
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"We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for fraud prevention purposes. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it.— Excerpt from Intuit's Intuit Privacy Statement
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision directly engages GDPR Art. 5(1)(e) storage limitation principle, which requires personal data to be kept no longer than necessary for specified, explicit purposes. It also implicates CCPA/CPRA Cal. Civ. Code §1798.100(e) right to deletion and CPRA's data minimization requirements under §1798.100(b). GLBA and IRS regulations impose minimum retention requirements for tax preparers (typically three years), but do not authorize indefinite retention. FTC Act Section 5 applies to unreasonably long retention of sensitive data.
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There is no fixed maximum retention period defined for sensitive financial and tax data, meaning Intuit could retain your full tax return history and financial records indefinitely under the broad justification of 'legitimate business needs' or legal claims.
Closing your Intuit account does not guarantee deletion of your sensitive financial data; Intuit retains the discretion to keep your tax returns, bank account details, and credit information for undefined periods after you stop using its services.
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