I'm a small practice and am looking at the different tax software on offer. BTC is more expensive than TaxCalc and I cant quite see why. BTC say their product is superior (but they would say that) Is Tax Calc any good? Has anyone switched from one to the other?
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Yep, switched for this year, BTC to TaxCalc, and very happy with the decision so far.
I used BTC last year, without ever being completely happy. My own practice may be slightly unusual in that it is all private client work, with accounts integration being irrelevant. I'm more interested in dividend reporting and CGT calculations etc, residence and overseas income.
I'm getting to like TaxCalc more wit each passing day.
have you not looked at Taxfiler
For the money it looks to good to be true for a stand alone tax product.
Taxfiler
It's brilliant. I actually prefer Taxfiler to all the tax software I have used in the past (eg. CCH, Sage, PTP and others.
It also has accounts included now, but I am sticking to VT, for now.
taxcalc
Can't comment on BTC, but I started in practice with TaxCalc last year and use it for accounts and tax.
The Support has been absolutely fantastic - pretty rare these days to get good customer service once they have your money, but these guys are in my opinion at a different level of customer care. Really good
cheers
Taxfiler & BTC
Taxfiler is a great little tax filing system and rather cheap (£10+VAT per month) compared to the others however I have just started using BTC mainly for practice management rather than accounts and tax prep. So far so good. Its a great system for practice management and I will eventually move completely from taxfiler.
We use Taxcalc for most tax returns (use VT for accounts), have done for ages so can't compare it to much. However, it's great as far as I'm concerned.
No experience of BTC.
Taxcalc vs Taxfiler
I looked at both yesterday, briefly, big difference in price. When you are starting out and have no clients, like me, the Taxcalc was quite a big outlay upfront. So I was left in two minds and made no decision.
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Taxfiler is a lot lighter, its like Taxcalc was in the pre-hub days.
ie no fluff, just files your returns, end of story.
Taxcalc seems to want to be an integrated system so comes with a lot of baggage and extra screens to click through.
Not used BTC.
I was with Digita for many years, but it became too expensive.
I tried TaxCalc which was OK and swiched to TaxFiler last year.
TaxFiler is excellent for the price.