Intuit TurboTax vs. Pilot.com

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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Pilot is great for early-stage startups in any vertical. They handle the entire financial stack and will save you a lot of time on that front. Their CFO services are also great regardless of the vertical you are in. As a founder, this is something you shouldn't waste your time on, and with Pilot you can feel secure.

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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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• Quick responses to questions submitted to support
• Integration with various banking systems and software, including HR systems and cap table system, which saves time when filing taxes

• Access forms and data source

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• I would say that only room for improvement would be to offer more educational opportunities that explain what the numbers mean.

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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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I liked the people they had working for them, and their communication was exceptional. This is their focus, not the overall software package with bookkeeping services added in.