What Reddit Says About Tax Builder Apps

We use the TaxSlayer at our IRS/VITA tax volunteer branch, and it's similar to their commercial version. Perfectly serviceable, and the pricing is very attractive now. Online Q&A is similar TurboTax.

Just did mine on FreeTaxUSA after years of doing it on TurboTax. FreeTaxUSA had a very similar style to TurboTax without the cost. The tips were a lot more helpful and this is probably the first year I'm 100% confident I did my taxes correctly!

I know a lot of folks love taxdome, canopy, and others. ATOM has all this: client portal, unlimited e-signatures, pulls ef data from drake, workflow management, VOIP, automated texts messages/phone calls (reminds clients about appointments, needed tax docs, important deadlines, due bill, happy birth...

The rep's job was to know and interpret the program, not make chat in order to distract me because he did not know anything about the program. I was left to navigate on my own when I expected to actually have expert help from Tax Act. It cost me less this year because I have used it for about 1...

I just re-filed my taxes because turbo tax was so expensive and I came upon this comment! Thank you. 🙏🏼 Procrastination complete, it cost me $0 to file both. I'm in Utah. I actually love the platform of free tax usa better than turbo tax ...

I’ve used UltraTax, Pro Series, ProConnect Tax Online, Drake, and Lacerte. Used UT longer than anything. Personally Lacerte is my favorite, although I will say UltraTax is superior for depreciation and multi-state returns.

At first I thought Tax Slayer was going to charge me $39.95 to file, but when I completed, it didn't appear that they charged me anything. That seemed weird (plus their name seems sketchy? lol), and I'm still not sure if I will get charged for ...

Here are some options in the market: - Turbotax business is easy to use if your setup is simple. Good for single-member LLCs and sole props. - H&R block software is cheaper and works well if you do not need complex integrations.

So I still recommend Cash App. At the very least, avoid TurboTax whenever possible. ... What budgeting software do you use as a married couple with joint accounts and personal accounts?

I uploaded my 2023 TurboTax pdf and FreeTaxUSA instantly and correctly loaded all my tax info. It took me about 10 minutes to update my numbers for 2024. It walked me thru every step. The interface is so much cleaner and simpler than TurboTax’s. It doesn’t have all the sleazy TurboTax trapdoors that...

What it is very good for is creating a tax plan for a brand new client based on their previous year return, a plan that says “hey, if you had worked with us, you would have saved $X in tax by implementing X, Y & Z strategies.

It's organizer solution is pretty comparable to Stanford Tax (didn't love the UI quite as much, but apparently that's getting an overhaul this summer), but it still did all the cool things like pull in data from the prior year return and create ...

I use TaxAct Professional. Been using them since 2020. ... I have been using pro series professional for a number of years. ... Ive used - Lacerte mostly, followed by ProConnect and ProSeries (don't recommend) and a bit of Drake as well.

Drake is a cheap option if you’re doing few returns, and don’t have a lot of multi-state returns/apportionment considerations. It is very bare bones, but an experienced tax preparer shouldn’t have an issue with it. ... Thank you! She used whatever Thomson Reuters’ tax software is. ... As a cpa I use...

I have it draft all of the emails I send to my clients because it has specific memory slots and stores all of the client info I have for each one. It’s like ChatGPT on steroids for tax work with a way better memory. Pretty much every person I’ve shown it to is using it full time now.

23 votes, 16 comments. update: wanted to follow up on this since the advice was super helpful. after looking into the options everyone mentioned, i…

I am starting my tax practice and am confused between Taxslayer Pro and MyTaxPrepOffice. I like the Tax2Go mobile app of the Taxslayer Pro version apart from that I do not see much difference (Price is another difference) between both.