Is it worth buying?

Is it worth buying?

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I'm just about to buy Taxcalc 2012 and am debating whether to buy the 'value added system'.

Has anyone here purchased it before and was it worth the £45?

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By petersaxton
11th Apr 2012 22:26

At £45?

It must be difficult not to be worth £45!

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By ireallyshouldknowthisbut
12th Apr 2012 09:17

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I found it useful last year doing projected comps for people around the £100k mark and you can print out a natty little computation for them.

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By Kent accountant
12th Apr 2012 10:29

What does it do?

Taxcalc don't really give anything away on the website so I was interested in knowing what the product actually did. 

@petersaxton - whilst £45 isn't a lot of money, I'd like to know what I'm buying, so any additional information or user reviews anyone can give would be great.

@ireallyshouldkn.. - I can see the value there, I'd be interested in a product which would help OMB's decide on the split and timing of dividends, whilst this is the sort of thing I normally do on a spreadsheet a tax product that did some of calculations for me would be great.

 

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By ireallyshouldknowthisbut
12th Apr 2012 10:44

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Well what the tax planning bit does is you can populate a computation with the prior years data and then amend it as you see fit to see the tax result, its just an extra report a bit like the errors report etc. Like you I used to do it in a spreadsheet but this is easier and takes into account more complex situations you wouldn't build into a bog standard sheet as all the computational functionality is there .

Its not terribly sophisticated as you still have to tweak the numbers (ie it doesnt do a "solve" on what the level of dividends should be) but i found it useful and have ordered it again this year.

I think some of the other functionality such as variance reporting is beefed up too. You should be able to click a link on the site which gives a list of whats in, but it doesn't tell you too much about what the features actually are.

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By petersaxton
13th Apr 2012 13:10

Is this the right way?

"Taxcalc don't really give anything away on the website so I was interested in knowing what the product actually did."

Is this the perfect opportunity to phone the company and find out?

"@ireallyshouldkn.. - I can see the value there, I'd be interested in a product which would help OMB's decide on the split and timing of dividends, whilst this is the sort of thing I normally do on a spreadsheet a tax product that did some of calculations for me would be great."

I would have thought that the split and timing of dividends could be decided in a few seconds by knowing  the distributable reserves and shareholders other income. Using programs and spreadsheets seems overkill.

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