The GoSystem Tax Advantage

In the current competitive environment, there is considerable pressure to make software purchasing decisions that must meet both existing and future tax compliance requirements. This purchasing decision requires you to anticipate industry trends, operational changes, and future equipment and personnel requirements. To meet these challenges, you need a comprehensive system your firm can grow into without draining valuable resources to manage equipment, software, and data.

We know that, no matter how comprehensive your tax compliance software is, inefficient software systems can steal your firm’s time and productivity. The solution is GoSystem® Tax.

GoSystem Tax is a powerful remote large-scale deployment of data and application server farms, centrally located in our Data Center and accessed over the Internet. GoSystem Tax gives you the flexibility and performance needed to meet your current and future compliance challenges. This product captures the advantages and benefits of remote server computing, data management, storage, and access.

GoSystem Tax processes federal, state, city, and municipal tax returns. Over 4,600 forms and schedules are available, including resident, part-year resident, and nonresident state and city tax returns.

Because GoSystem Tax is designed by tax and technology professionals for tax professionals, we incorporate our understanding of your firm’s tax compliance functions into the design of our products. This understanding enables us to maximize your efficiency and productivity and increase your billable hours. GoSystem Tax incorporates remote server technology and income tax know-how to give you:

Portability through remote access
Enhanced processing performance
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Concurrent multiuser access to tax returns for data collaboration
Immediate access to updated applications with no installation worries
Centralized data storage, backup, and management
Security
Stability and data protection
Enhanced user support
Firm-level defaults, reports, and access control
Resource leveraging to efficiently utilize other offices or personnel excess capacity.

Portability

Your office expands with remote server technology. GoSystem Tax portability enables users to access the system from remote locations – anywhere you have access to the Internet. With the ability to connect from your client’s site, from home, or from other locations, you are freed from software-imposed constraints.

GoSystem Tax portability can be your solution to difficult staffing situations. With the increasing challenge of procuring experienced tax professionals, you may be required to offer more flexible working environments such as telecommuting to attract qualified personnel. GoSystem Tax provides you with a viable telecommuting option without compromising performance or data synchronization. Combined with GoSystem Tax data conferencing, true portability is now a reality.

Faster Processing

Remote Server technology uses Fat Server/Thin Client architecture. The Fat Server (located in our Data Center) holds the application and data. The Thin Client is downloaded to the user’s workstation, requiring less than 100 MB of disk storage. This allows data-intensive computations and data management to be processed at the application server, with only the results sent to the user’s workstation. The Fat Server architecture uses a Windows Server operating environment to manage the client session and perform tax computations at a greater speed than conventional distributed software products.

Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

GoSystem Tax addresses the escalating cost of maintaining a distributed computer environment to reduce your TCO. Unlike the traditional method of installing software in your firm’s offices, in the GoSystem Tax environment, software is installed in our Data Center, with access using the Internet or a private network connection. This shifts the burden of updating tax software and managing data away from your firm and reduces your TCO by:

Eliminating tax data, server, database, and software management at each office.
Transferring the burden of server obsolescence to our Data Center.
Extending the life of your desktop computer by off-loading the processing to our central servers to reduce workstation upgrades.

Concurrent Multiuser Access

Occasionally certain tax functions on all or some returns may be spread among several members of your staff. Tax data can become fragmented, duplicated, and maintained in too many locations. With GoSystem Tax, data is centrally located offering full concurrent multiuser access. You eliminate multiple returns with duplicate data, you no longer have to maintain multiple software installations, and you gain the benefits of application conferencing and the effort of using a single data source.

Immediate Access to Updated Applications

With GoSystem Tax, the application servers are located in the Data Center, and software is updated automatically. The software is always current.

Periodically, new tax laws are enacted that include retroactive application of certain provisions. As a general rule, we will not update prior tax year applications after the final release for that tax year has been provided. When we implement changes, we will announce these exceptions via Customer Center postings.

Centralized Data Storage and Management

Data servers located at the Data Center provide storage and backup of taxpayer data. This data array stores all data and program files, offering a large amount of storage capacity. Centralized storage and management facilitates access to multiple tax years and relieves your firm from the burden and extended resources needed for storing tax return data.

Enhanced User Support

Remote server technology enables tax return conferencing. With your authorization, our tax support representatives can access a return to assist you with questions or issues related to the return. You do not need to transmit or exit the return for review; we can work with you in real time to answer your questions.

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Last Modified: 06/30/2020

Last System Build: 09/25/2022