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| 2 December 2007 | |
| I have been using LaCerte for 2 years now. It is expensive even if you pay by return. My client load is small so far - about 50 1040s, 1 1065, 2 C-Corps, 15 S-corps. I am not sure yet if I want to renew it or not. I like but do not love it. I really loved GoSystems RS when I used it years ago - but it is too much for my little practice. What do you all use and what is the avg do you pay? Thank you | |
Bottom Line (talk|edits) said: | 2 December 2007 |
| Do a search in the yellow box to the left and you'll see that there has been a lot of discussion about various softwares and the high cost of LaCerte. | |
| 2 December 2007 | |
| TaxAct is probably one of the least expensive for a small practice. | |
MDUBIN1441 (talk|edits) said: | 2 December 2007 |
| I have a similar practice to yours approx. 45 1040's, & 12 1120, 1120S, 1065, 1041, etc. I have been using ATX for the past 5 years. Prior to that I used Microvision Tax Relief that was sold to Ultratax. My main reason for switching was cost.
I strongly believe that all software programs accomplish 80 to 90% of their goal the balance need to have work arounds. Cost/benefit ATX is an outstanding product. MikeD CPA | |
Bottom Line (talk|edits) said: | 2 December 2007 |
| I've been happy with ProSeries. The pay per return price is reasonable for a small practice and you can pick and choose what you want as unlimited. I do unlimited 1040 and 1120S but pay per return for 1120, 990, 1065 and states. | |
| 2 December 2007 | |
| Used to use Proseries and Lacert, but the support sucked (Intuit). Been using ATX for a year now, and the support is awesome, and the software has every form for every state, and is fairly intuitive. About $1150 for unlimited everything including e-file. It's not perfect, but after using Lacert and Proseries, it kicks ass. | |
| 2 December 2007 | |
| Almost forgot, this is an Intuit site, sorry guys, but gotta be real about it. | |
| 3 December 2007 | |
| Check out TaxWorks...I like it and you can use PUP (Per Use Processing) until it makes sense to go unlimited. This will be my 5th year with it and I love it. I pass the cost on to my clients anyway (last year the cost was about $15/return) and I charged $25 through an invoice line item called "Software and Processing Fee." Not a word from any of my clients. | |
Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 3 December 2007 |
| You might use our search block to check out discussions of ATX and Drake....type the names into the search block; I am sure if you type Proseries or Lacerte you will also find discussions about these too. | |
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