Practice Management for Tax Firms
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Fast-track tax queues
Visualize, manage, and prioritise high-volume tax work with role-based templates and First-In First-Out tax queues. Assign tasks based on team members’ skills and historical patterns, so work keeps moving even as the season intensifies.
Easily reassign jobs or adjust deadlines across stages, whether you're in internal review or preparing for client review, without missing key details.
Automate client intake
Karbon tax organisers and binders powered by StanfordTax use AI to quickly generate personalised tax organisers for each client.
Real-time status updates sync directly into Karbon, automatically triggering follow-up tasks and delivering organised workpapers exactly where you need them. No manual transfers or document chasing required.
Leverage tax-ready templates
Kickstart tax season with a ready-to-go library of prebuilt workflows for standard returns like 1040s and 1099s. Each workflow includes built-in tasks, roles, deadlines, automations, and sections, customisable to align with your firm's unique tax processes, ensuring everyone stays efficient and on-task.
Every step of your firm’s tax process, covered
Pre-Tax Season Planning (Coming Soon)
Get complete visibility into your firm before busy season hits. Karbon’s Progress Reports help you spot bottlenecks, track work by deadline, and filter by status or type, so nothing falls through the cracks.
Client Information Capture
Collect and organise client documents with built-in tax organisers and binders powered by StanfordTax. AI-generated, personalised client organisers easily collect, categorize, and track client information. Send organisers for review, see status updates, upload docs to a client binder, and link everything in one place.
Document Assembly & Annotation
Declutter your document storage by bringing it all together. With Karbon for Clients, StanfordTax, and your prep software, you can assemble and annotate documents in one easy workflow – reducing back-and-forth and improving accuracy.
Tax Preparation
First-In First-Out (FIFO) Queues in Karbon ensure tax preparation is handled in the right order. Work items added to queues can be shared, assigned, and tracked, making it easy to see progress and who’s responsible.
Internal Review
Prepare documents for internal approval and collect team sign-offs right from Karbon. Real-time status tracking shows who has reviewed, approved, and what is pending with a complete audit trail. Customisable reminders eliminate manual follow-ups with colleagues.
Client Review
Send documents, get approvals and request signatures all from Karbon. Set reminders, and track status with visibility into what’s been sent, seen, and signed.
Billing & Payments
Bill faster with less admin. Generate invoices directly from work items, so billing stays connected to the job and payment is pain-free, right from within Karbon.
Send & Sign Documents
Insert signature tasks into your workflow. Clients can securely sign off in Karbon for Clients, and you can monitor it all from one place. No more chasing signatures.
Tax Filing
Keep everything in sync automatically by integrating your Document Management System (DMS) with Karbon, ensuring files are properly stored and retrievable without manual uploads.
Archiving
Busy season may be over, but the work doesn’t stop. Keep your firm connected and in control year-round with Karbon’s automatic syncing.
Engage clients 24/7
Deliver a premium experience through Karbon for Clients, designed for critical client-facing stages such as document intake, organiser completion, annotation, and approvals.
Clients can upload files, complete organisers, approve documents, and eSign tax filing forms with Knowledge-based Authentication, all in one secure, branded portal.
Your tax systems, fully integrated
Build your ideal tax tech stack by connecting Karbon to your favorite tax software.
With deep integrations to Intuit ProConnect, StanfordTax, TaxNow, Truss, Soraban, TaxPlan IQ and more, Karbon's connected ecosystem helps you make the most of your existing tax tools better than every other practice management platform.
Flexible billing, faster payments
Manage billing with engagements that link directly to relevant tax work. Generate branded invoices, apply your preferred billing models, and collect payments without leaving Karbon, all while keeping billing tied tightly to task completion.
Documents done right
Organise your firm's files from initial client document capture to long-term archiving. Intelligent foldering and DMS syncs ensure your data stays clean, compliant, and accessible across every touchpoint in the tax process.
App integrations save time, reduce manual uploads and downloads, and minimise costly mistakes for your firm.
Key features for tax firms
Ensure every client is served in the order they came, with less stress for your team.
Every extension tracked, filed, and followed up, without spreadsheets or manual steps.
Easily send tax organisers with StanfordTax and get automatic IRS transcript alerts with TaxNow, all in Karbon.
Real-time visibility into work progression. Know exactly where to focus and what’s falling behind.
Set recurring work to repeat on automatic schedules.
Create task lists for clients to collect information and important files.
Set up reminders to auto-chase clients until requests are completed.
Collaborate with clients in one streamlined workflow with tasks, document sharing, and eSignatures.
Store your client contacts and key information in a centralised database.
Files and documents automatically organised against clients and jobs.
Every email between your client and anyone on your team, in one single place.
Leverage the latest advancements in AI, built into your practice management.
Estimate and track time to understand profitability and allocate resources.
Automate billing and payment collection to reduce AR and improve cash flow.
Plug-and-play dashboard that gives you real-time insights into key metrics.
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