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Wolters Kluwer to Add New AI Features to Tax and Accounting Systems

CPA Practice

The new GenAI search functionality queries trusted sources within Wolters Kluwer content helping customers when preparing tax returns and identifying tax planning opportunities.

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Safeguarding your practice: Rethinking client relationships as DIY tax returns become a reality

Mark Lee

I had thought this might not happen until MTD for income tax becomes a reality. The Rise of DIY Tax Returns This year, in the Facebook groups I frequent, a number of magicians, speakers and consultants have been almost boasting about ho, for the first time, they have completed their own tax returns.

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New Sole Proprietors, LLCs, and Corporations Need Accounting and Tax Services

MyIRSRelief

Businesses are subject to a variety of tax laws, and accounting and bookkeeping help you ensure that you’re meeting all of your tax obligations. If you ever need to raise money for your business, investors and lenders will want to see that you have a good accounting system in place. To secure funding.

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Time constraints surrounding sales and use tax

TaxConnex

Some states have a flat sales tax rate that applies throughout the state, resulting in a simple sales tax return. Other states have local taxes reported on the state return. Still others have home-rule jurisdictions where separate returns may need to be filed at the local level. Should you outsource?

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Managing sales tax: Are businesses satisfied with the additional effort?

TaxConnex

More than a third of companies across all industries also report that their sales tax obligations aren’t big enough to warrant outsourcing the function – yet. Yet a third of companies said their processes to handle sales tax and nexus obligations required too much of their staff’s time. What’s keeping them up at night?

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Retailers/ecommerce companies face special sales tax challenges

TaxConnex

Retail/eCommerce respondents to our survey reported challenges such as audits, timely filing of sales tax returns and charging the correct sales tax. Not happy A quarter of retail and eCommerce companies who responded to our survey already file sales tax returns in 11-30 states and 69% sell into more than 30.

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Connecting the Dots Between Data and Returns: Know What You're Filing

TaxConnex

But what about the information in your actual return – do you understand how the data you input is projected onto what you file and remit? You can’t forget that someone needs to connect the dots on your sales tax return before you sign it and send it in – to do anything else invites an eventual visit from the auditor.