Taxes January 26, 2026
Welcome to Tax Season 2026
The IRS today opened the 2026 tax filing season and began accepting and processing federal individual income tax returns for tax year 2025.
December 1, 2008
Review of Document Management Software — 2006
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…
December 1, 2008
Tools To Enhance Or Supplement Your Core Document Management System
The evolution of document management systems has created a market of additional software and services that enhance or supplement the core document management application.
December 1, 2008
Review of Tax Research Applications — 2006
It may be an over simplification to say that all clients are different, but this is one of the reasons that tax preparation can be challenging.
December 1, 2008
Meet America’s Tax And Accounting Technology Dream Team
Public accounting is a very special profession. I’m sure you each vividly remember your first day on the job, fresh out of school and … dumb as a box of rocks. Of course, you didn’t know the last part.
December 1, 2008
Vendor Community Building
The professional service trades have a long history of relationship networking and have often utilized the power of community to get new clients, to meet more prospects and to generally market their services, but there is more to be accomplished.
December 1, 2008
The 10 Worst Ideas of 2006
OPINION -- Well, actually it’s only ONE idea --- but its SO BAD that it could well qualify for all 10 places. The IRS is seeking to revise the privacy rules to allow commercial return preparers to share confidential taxpayer information to third party data brokers for marketing purposes.
December 1, 2008
Review of Website Builders for Accountants — 2005
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Think about that when you undertake the task of designing a new or improved web site strategy for your firm. Your web site will continually evolve as your virtual office of the future, serving as a gateway to new clients, a service center for…
December 1, 2008
Review of Fixed Asset Software — 2005
How much is a plumber’s truck worth? For tax purposes, how much of its value did it lose this year? How much is remaining? What if he sells it? Although the concept of depreciation may be straightforward in itself (Asset A depreciates by X percent per time period B), properly calculating depreciation for tax purposes…