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23 February 2006 / Allison Plager
Issue: 4046 / Categories: Comment & Analysis , Admin
How has the market for budget priced tax software panned out over the last year? ALLISON PLAGER reports.

THIS TIME LAST year many tax practitioners were plunged into gloom when Intuit decided to stop producing TaxCalc. Something of a hiatus followed but within a short time Acorah Software Products acquired TaxCalc from Intuit along with most of the relevant team and relaunched the product in May 2005. This did not go completely smoothly due in no small part to the fact that Intuit would not pass on the source code for TaxCalc to ASP so it had to be rewritten from scratch.
Other providers were quick to see an opportunity and some offered incentives such as discounts on their products to attract former TaxCalc users. Most of these users felt at first that they had no option but to try other software but many returned to TaxCalc when it was relaunched proving if nothing else that users...

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