How tax work gets done

Plan, prep, file, review, resolve, strategize. Whatever you need to do on your taxes, there's a workflow for it. Pre-built ones for what's common, custom ones for everything else.

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Built into everything Instead does

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Library of tax
workflows

Tax planning, return prep, review, filing, strategies, and resolution. Built and ready.
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Custom workflows on demand

Describe what you need done, and the agent builds the workflow that runs it for you.
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Run by the agent, end to end

Workflows do the actual work. Documents organized, forms filled, decisions surfaced.

Pre-built for every tax task

Build a tax plan from your prior return and current year financials. Prepare a return across 1040, 1041, 1065, 1120, or 1120-S. Review a return that's already been done. Implement a strategy. Resolve back taxes. The library covers what's common, so you don't have to figure out where to start.
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Builds custom workflows on demand

Describe what you need done. A one-off compliance project, a new strategy you've never run before, a multi-state K-1 reconciliation. The agent builds the workflow that handles it. Then runs it.
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Runs the work, not just the steps

Most workflow tools just track what you've done. Instead's workflows actually run. The agent reads documents, runs calculations, populates forms, and flags items that need your judgment. The work gets done while you do other things.
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How a workflow runs

Three steps from start to done

Pick a workflow

Choose from the library of pre-built workflows. Or describe a new one and the agent builds it.

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The agent runs it

Documents get organized. Calculations get run. Forms get populated. Decisions get flagged.

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Review and approve

You see what was done, what needs your judgment, and what's ready to be filed or finalized.

Taxpayers

Access to their data, maintaining transparency
and control.

Workflows that adapt as you go

Start a return prep workflow, and the workflow adds tasks as new documents come in. A 1099 from a new payer. A K-1 from a partnership. A mid-year property purchase. The workflow expands to cover whatever your year actually looked like.
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Automated tasks and reminders to meet deadlines
Access to customer support to help you realize savings
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Every workflow type supported

Whatever needs doing on your taxes, there's a workflow for it.

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Tax planning

Build a tax plan from your prior return and current year financials, with savings projected.

Tax preparation

Build workpapers and returns across 1040, 1041, 1065, 1120, and 1120-S with all schedules.
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Tax review

Verify a completed return against source documents, last year's return, and IRS rules.

Tax filing

Direct transmission to the IRS, every state, and every city, once your return is ready.

Tax strategies

Implement any tax strategy from R&D credits, WOTC, and Augusta Rule to custom strategies.
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Tax resolution

Installment plans, offers in compromise, and currently-not-collectible status filings.