Tax prep software

H&R Block is planning to offer a pair of new services that will provide taxpayers with online help from the tax prep chain’s professionals.

Tax professionals who use the form-filling software can now access practice management tools.

The Big Four firm will leverage the technology to provide the life cycle of tax tools in a centralized system.

The partnership hopes to encourage tax firms to expand their practices with the new offerings.

The company’s third annual conference will focus on the future of tax compliance.

The company has responded to some popular user requests.

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CPAs, EAs, and attorneys are welcome to apply.

He will serve as executive president and general manager for the medium and large segment for the Tax & Accounting North America business unit.

The product is a global multi-ledger, multi-GAAP, multi-currency and multi-year solution that unifies data management from multiple sources and provides provision calculation.

The acquisition of Adsolut is hoped to expand the company's base in the European country.

The Internal Revenue Service is planning a series of actions in the coming months to improve e-Services usability and security on the online apps.

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Clients often don’t understand the practitioners who file their returns.

An old banking procedure could add another layer of security to IRS return processing.

The Internal Revenue Service is planning to demonstrate an upcoming refresh of its IRS.gov website optimized for mobile users, along with a prototype of online accounts for tax professionals, at its IRS Nationwide Tax Forums this summer.

The ruling rejects the ‘software defense’ for deduction errors.

H&R Block’s use of IBM’s Watson technology this past tax season is only one sign of the increasing involvement of artificial intelligence in tax preparation, with even Big Four firms like PricewaterhouseCoopers making major investments in AI for servicing their tax clients.

Intuit CEO Brad Smith is seeing some strong competition for TurboTax this year.

(Bloomberg) Tax preparation isn't rocket science -- or so contends Kenneth Lin, in his pitch to get taxpayers to use Credit Karma, his popular credit-monitoring site, to do taxes online for free.