Do NOT Charge a Convenience Fee!
A $25 "convenience" fee is extortion and reveals Intuit's parasitic business model. Surely, every tax preparer and accountant already pays for a QuickBooks license and/or a processing fee for each use? The tax professional obviously passes those fees to the customer. Is that not enough for a business that is enables and supports a byzantine system of taxation? The US government already knows how much tax I owe or not and could invoice me directly, but that will never happen because of lobbyists (and you know this). Your "business" is a public service, and you have no competition. You are parasites.
Nicole Rossi
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Robert Boudrie commented
This is to protect Intuit from customers avoiding the credit card processing fee by using ACH.
A big part of the problem is no disclosure on the bill "This $25 fee is imposed by Intuit and your vendor does not receive any part of it".
The lack of a response to this post by Intuit is telling, but I am impressed they did not take it down.
I was seriously annoyed at a vendor until I learned they are a victim of this scamming behavior, not the perputrator.