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
RIA – Checkpoint
Checkpoint is RIA’s online research application that offers federal and state primary tax resources and analysis and recommendations from RIA and WG&L tax experts, as well as access to online versions of PPC’s Deskbooks and other third-party providers. The system also offers ongoing coverage of tax and finance-related news, legislation and rulings. Checkpoint starts at...…
December 1, 2008
Tax Analysts – Web Services
Tax Analysts offers a comprehensive selection of CD, DVD and online tax research products comprised of primary source materials, analysis, news and e-mail delivered briefs. The company’s new DVD-based OneDisc Premium offers greater content all housed on a single disc with a redesigned web-based interface, search functions and productivity tools. It costs $359 for a...…
December 1, 2008
AccountantsWorld – Accountant’s Relief PLUS
Accountant’s Relief PLUS is a comprehensive accounting, auditing and financial reporting program that provides engagement management features along with full write-up, trial balance, compilation, review, audit, financial statement and check writing capabilities, and an accounts receivable link. The program supports workpapers, departmental accounting, multiple journals, consolidation, leadsheets and bank reconciliation. Accountant’s Relief has an initial...…
December 1, 2008
CCH Tax and Accounting – ProSystem fx Trial Balance
ProSystem fx Trial Balance is designed to automate and streamline trial balance preparation. The program’s interface provides options for reviewing trial balance information and relates the balances to specific workpapers associated with the detail work. The program directly integrates with the other products offered by CCH, including ProSystem fx Engagement (reviewed on page 12) and...…
December 1, 2008
AccountantsWorld — After-the-Fact Payroll
As a stand-alone program or as part of the Accountants Office Suite, AFP Payroll supports forms 1099-MISC, 1099-R, 1099-B, 1099-DIV, 1099-INT, 1099-S, 1098, W-2, W-3, 940, 941, 943 and 1096.
December 1, 2008
BNA Software — Sales & Use Tax Rates & Forms
BNA Sales & Use Tax Rates and Forms, from BNA Software, provides support for all states and taxing jurisdictions in the United States, with more than 58,000 counties and cities represented.
December 1, 2008
CCH Tax & Accounting — ZIPsales Returns
This program is an ASP hybrid, offering the benefits of a web-based application as well as offering some features more commonly associated with outsourcing.
December 1, 2008
BNA Software — BNA Income Tax Planner, Federal & 50 States
The BNA Income Tax Planner is designed to be a stand-alone tax planning system that integrates with a professional’s existing tax preparation software. The program allows up to 10 side-by-side columns of federal and state tax projections for multiple past or future years and/or scenarios (note: the new release scheduled for September 2004 doubles this...…
December 1, 2008
CCH Tax & Accounting – ProSystem fx Planning
CCH’s ProSystem fx Planning supports multi-scenario tax planning for federal income tax and supports the following states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, LA, ME, MD, MI, MN, MS, MO, NE, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OH, OR, SC, UT and WV. The system allows multi-year forecasts and includes detailed calculations and...…
December 1, 2008
AccountantsWorld – Accountant’s Relief
Please fasten your seat belts. Use of a helmet is strongly advised. We have discussed platform-independence, but the owner of Accountant’s Relief offers us the promise of what they call the “anytime-anywhere world.” Desktop or Internet – you decide. The landscape called telecommuting and the remote office is about to evolve big time! Accountant’s Relief...…
December 1, 2008
TaxWorks — Tax Planner
TaxWorks is a new addition to the tax planning review, although the company’s TaxPlanner application has been available for several years as an add-on to the company’s tax preparation software. The program is geared primarily toward accountants and tax preparers, but the company is also targeting other prospective estate and tax planning professionals, such as...…
December 1, 2008
Write-Up Executive Summary
The first time I saw an example of double-entry accounting, it made sense to me. I like to assist with our small business write-up (bookkeeping) function in my firm - not all the time, mind you, but I definitely like to keep my hand in it.