Tax

CCH Fiscal Cliff Estimator is now available for free on CCH's website.

CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business, recently released its 2013 Fiscal Cliff Estimator, a tool to help taxpayers and their advisors prepare for possible outcomes of the fiscal cliff negotiations.

Intuit, Inc. — Tax Import for Lacerte and ProSeries800-200-7599accountants.intuit.com/tax/lacerte/add-ons/tax-import.jspaccountants.intuit.com/tax/proseries/add-ons/tax-import.jsp Best Fit Tax-focused practices using Lacerte or ProSeries, who want an automated method of creating organized PDF workpapers from client source documents, as well as direct download of W-2 and 1099 data from financial institutions. Strengths Dual optical character recognition process increases reliability of data imports […]

SurePrep — 1040SCAN Pro; 1040SCAN Organize800-805-8582www.sureprep.com Best Fit: Professional firms seeking an automated workpaper solution, who have complex clients, or clients who often have large numbers of source documents, and where there may be multiple professionals involved in preparation, review and final sign-off. Strengths The SPbinder tool has strong features for organizing and annotating PDFs, […]

CCH a Wolters Kluwer business — ProSystem fx Scan 800-739-9998 CCHGroup.com Best Fit: Firms wanting to integrate automated workpaper and form preparation into the larger suite of tax and practice management programs in the ProSystem fx Suite. Strengths Optical character recognition (OCR) is streamlined and fast The AutoFlow Wizard feature helps provide data validation User […]

GruntWorx, LLC — GruntWorx 800-291-2136 www.gruntworx.com Best Fit: Tax professionals who want a user-friendly way to quickly create organized and bookmarked PDF workpapers generated from source documents, and that can be used alongside any professional tax system. The optional auto-populate functions only work with specific systems, however. Strengths Completely web-based means nothing to install and […]

Thomson Reuters — Source Document Processing800-968-8900CS.ThomsonReuters.com Best Fit: Professionals using UltraTax CS and other programs in the CS Professional Suite, who want an integrated option for creating digital workpapers from client source documents and automatic population of returns from the data on those forms. Strengths Thorough integration with other programs in the CS Professional Suite […]

2013 Review of Tax Document Automation Systems