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All payroll tax management systems must do the basics: pay and report
tax liabilities. What separates one system from another is the level
of effort required to ensure timely and accurate payments and returns.
Once you take a look at what we offer, we believe you will agree that
MasterTax is the easiest-to-use and most comprehensive payroll tax
management software available.
More importantly, our customers validate this belief by constantly
raving about MasterTax's capabilities, ease-of-use, and high quality
customer support.
At MasterTax, our philosophy is: "If a taxing authority requires it,
we do it; if a customer needs it, we will do it."
The following chart illustrates some critical differences between
MasterTax and our competitors, and highlights MasterTax's distinguishing features.
Product Details
| Features |
MasterTax |
Competition |
| General |
| License Fees |
One price for an unlimited number of Federal IDs, State and local EINs.
Optional employee unemployment wage reporting module. |
Price varies, based on the number of Federal IDs,
state and local EINs and options. |
| Annual Support |
42% |
75% |
| Platform |
Client/Server or Internet |
Internet |
| Data Storage |
Tax payment and return history is stored in a single
database for an unlimited period of time. |
Tax payment and return history is stored for one year;
multiple databases are required to store data for multiple years. |
| Support |
| Software Updates |
Releases are available online, and require
no technical assistance to install. |
Releases are provided on CD. Technical assistance to
install provided at an additional charge. |
| Help Systems |
Comprehensive online training and user guides, tax
return filing instructions, and self-running training
tours of software features. |
|
| Telephone / Email |
Responses within two hours, usually immediately. |
Former customers indicate responses typically take several hours to days. |
| Product Enhancements |
Customer-driven enhancements are delivered with each quarterly release. |
|
| Tax Forms |
Tax forms are developed in-house and are submitted to each taxing
authority for approval. |
Tax forms are provided by a third-party vendor. |
| EFT Payments |
Agency EFT banking requirements, transit routing numbers and
bank accounts are maintained in the MasterTax rules database. |
EFT payments are performed by a third-party vendor. |
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