“This is an important move for Drake,” stated John Sapp, Vice President of Strategic Development at Drake Software. “GruntWorx allows us to rapidly expand our offerings into the cutting-edge document automation technology arena. This enables us to provide tax professionals with a true end-to-end paperless tax solution and deliver extremely high accuracy rates.”
Drake webinars, like the array of self-study and live CE courses also offered by Drake, can assist paid preparers in meeting the 15-hour CE requirement set by the IRS preparer regulations.
Are you looking to attract more business? The best way to lure new customers is through effective marketing practices. Often times, however, it’s hard to know where to start. Here are a few tips on how you can attract more customers to your firm.
Do you ever have to prepare a tax return from years ago—say, 2001? I bet you do! Using your old software can be a challenge on that computer you just purchased, the one with Windows 7 installed (which is a 64-bit operating system). In fact, those old programs are not likely to function properly with the 10-year difference in technology.
External hard drives are wonderful. You just plug them in and start filling them up like it is nobody’s business. As long as you don’t run out of space, what could possibly go wrong?
The Snipping Tool lets you copy the image of all or a part of the screen and paste it elsewhere with minimal fuss.
I previously wrote about the importance of backing up your data, so I thought it might be useful to look at some of the backup options available. Throughout this article, I refer to two different types of files: data files and system files. Data files refer to individual tax returns (for the Drake client) or [...]
Everything you read says yes, the time is now. You know your clients and you know what is best for them, but do you know what client is best for your business?
We see the tread slowly disappearing, yet we are determined to get every last mile out of it. Every year we field questions from our customers about whether or not they should upgrade their computers, printers, networks, you name it.
It is true that the Social Security Administration (SSA) released standards this year for printing 2D barcodes on Forms W-2 and W-3. It is also true that the IRS released alternative versions of Forms W-2 and W-3 to support the 2D barcode. So why might you receive a W-2 from a taxpayer with no 2D barcode? Here are 2 reasons why:
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