Review of Service Bureau Style Payroll — 2006
The Payroll Pool: Come On In, The Water's Fine!
The Payroll Pool: Come On In, The Water's Fine!
877-780-4848 www.Avalara.com www.FreeTaxRates.com
It seems that every tax and accounting professional is looking for something a little different from their tax preparation package. While this has a lot to do with personal preferences such as forms-based entry versus interview sheets or other specific features, the needs of a professional are obviously steered a great deal by the nature of his or her clients.
While there may be talk of eliminating the Federal Estate Tax (FET), the products in this review give no sign of that happening anytime soon.
800-773-5445www.SimplyAccounting.com
Fifteen years ago, the idea of changing tax preparation software could bring a tax professional to his or her knees in fear for several reasons: The IT headaches involved in switching systems; retraining preparer staff on the new program; and the lengthy and often inaccurate process of converting data files from the old system.
800-726-1040www.ria.thomson.com
The time is now! If not now, when? Electronic document management systems (EDMS) for the tax and accounting practice have come of age. We are rapidly approaching the point where document management reaches critical mass in the tax and accounting profession, defined here as when the number of firms that have implemented EDMS outnumber those that haven’t.