CCH ProSystem efiles NYC biz, still not ATX?!

[TaxCPANY]

Second year in a row that CCH ProSystem is one of only two apps approved by NYC to e-file its business returns. Who owns ATX?

[taxperson]

Second year in a row that CCH ProSystem is one of only two apps approved by NYC to e-file its business returns. Who owns ATX?

How much would you want to pay for ATX? Compare the prices.

[Lion EA]

I pay the big bucks for ProSystem fx (pay per return to keep my costs down) because it has some features I'm willing to pay for. If I had a different clientele, I might have a different software. If you have very many NY business clients, and you can move their prices up, you might want to consider fx.

[michaelmars]

our prosystem 2008 bill was $25,000 unlimited everything but this year there cust svc is so bad we already arranged to demo other companies. in comparrison atx is excellant cust ser.

[Lion EA]

Customer service continues to come through for me, fast, helpful, gets me back to work. But, as a sole proprietor, that's one of the things I'm willing to pay for. If that slips, I'll demo other software again. My bill runs around $5,000 for tax software only. But, last year I tried their research and drove down to the users' conference in MD and purchased some training and use their web site and...ended up spending over $9,000. Probably spending more on hardware in 2010.

[TaxCPANY]

Thanks much, taxperson, Lion, & michaelmars,

I just wonder why CCH didn't bring ATX along, in becoming NYC-approved? It seems unfair, and, while perhaps it's something political that ought to be raised before the NYC Dept. of Finance, it might be another harbinger of ATX's demise. That's particularly why I ranted in this forum.

I know what a *great* bargain ATX is -- e.g., I'd used ProSystem fx & its only other major competitor, back when I worked in the-then Big 8 -- and I used Lacerte for the first years of my own practice -- until Intuit's purchase raised Lacerte's cost beyond reason. With ATX, for almost a decade, I've been able to serve my wide-ranging clientele -- and, yes, just over a majority of them reside or have businesses in NYC.

This second year of ATX omitted while CCH re-qualified its "premier" product worries me; I'm afraid it's an instance of "pay to play." That's not ethical; that's not what NYC should be gearing-up to offer all its taxpayers and us "stakeholders."

Most truly yours, TaxCPANY

[Gail in Virginia]

This is the first year that Virginia has accepted business returns at all through its e-file program, and so far they are only accepting C corporations. However,while CCH and Taxwise have both qualified to efile business returns, ATX has not. I was rather disappointed in that, and I do hope that it is not a sign of what we can expect over the next few years. <_<

[michaelmars]

nyc only accepted efiles starting last year and even then not till March was it up and running. i would love for atx to efile nyc but i am also glad that others are being the beta testers for NY first.

we use prosysten here and its good for very complex returns [10 states, 50 k-1 imputs or dozens of partners etc] but for 85% of the returns, i can knock one out in atx in 1/10 the imput time.

If only atx would more automate the printing!!!

BY THE WAY, although we can efile nyc corps they do not accept nyc extensions via efile - Go figure!!!