Intuit Lacerte vs. Intuit TurboTax

Lacerte helps to serve a great variety of clients and businesses, it has over 5,700 forms. It also supports multi-state, K-1s, and more. It suits for power users with high business inflow. Its useful for a CPA who is processing a high value firm or individual with zero errors. The error diagnostic feature covers more than 25k error checks. This is less applicable to CPA's whose are managing regular individual 1040 routines.

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Great for most situations. Depending on your complexities, Intuit TurboTax is a great option for self service or Intuit supported tax preparation. The system will store your prior year data making gathering needed documents easy.

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• Continually updates when bugs are found or tax law change
• Live customer suppprt
• Listen s to customer to improve product
• E-signature to get signed forms from remote customers
• Organizers for customer to complete on paper or electronic
• Tax appointment scheduling within the program and recurring for future appointments
• Client invoices by form
• Trial balance from accounting software to save time on business data entry

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• fill in tables or cells with numbers directly from scanned tax forms (1099s, W2s, etc)
• determine necessary tax forms needed to fill based on users' answers to selected questions
• customization capability for users that are well-versed in their tax situation (i.e., ability to select deductions themselves)

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• The updates from IRS to Lacerte need to be improved, so far so good.
• Reporting needs to be improved. Feature like sorting categories. scorp/ind/non-profit
• Tax summaries can be improved - like the differentiation between rental income & expenses. I trust this feature would be a great help.

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• Access forms and data source

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Lacerte customer service has been great. They are very knowledgeable about the product and can help resolve problems quickly.

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I’ve heard other tax preparers talk about their software and their likes and dislikes. When I offer to show them Intuit Lacerte most are blown away by what it does. One preparer used ProConnrct online tax (also by Intuit), and she loves how easy Intuit Lacerteis to use. She said having live support (not chat) to actually be able to show issues and work through them was great. Both programs use the same calculations, but the extras (trial balance, organizers with prior year data, invoicing, scheduling, filters, etc) are what makes Intuit Lacerte the best!

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We select TurboTax for its wide user base (familiarity), price points (multiple offerings based on users' needs), user experience (intuitiveness), technology (adaptive to user tax situations and simplify user data entry by means of upload feature), customer support (for implementer and end-users) and expert support (i.e., CPA), cloud capability, safety and security. Other products also offer several features like those but not to the same level of comprehensiveness and sophistication.

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• It has helped meet overall business goals.
• Gives you the ability to add in and purchase only what you need.

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