FREE SWAP TO TAXWISE ??

[FLORIDA TAX MAN]

I called Taxwise, got Bill, the salesman and asked for the free swap. he said he had not heard about it. Would have my ATX rep call me.

Does anybody know about this ??

[JohnH]

I haven't heard about it, but it wouldn't surprise me if that were the end game here. But I doubt that it will be free...

[ColumbusCPA]

I called my sales rep and asked for this and was given a free swap. No questions asked.

[Jack from Ohio]

I am concerned about CCH and ATX surviving and being available for 2013 tax year. This has been very damaging and may be a death knoll.

We are making plans to seriously consider another software for 2013 to have in case of this happening.

Don't want to switch, but if CCH takes a fatal blow, or they decide to dump ATX, we have to be ready.

[Margaret CPA in OH]

FYI knell (not knoll)

/nel/

Noun

The sound of a bell, esp. when rung solemnly for a death or funeral.

Verb

(of a bell) Ring solemnly, esp. for a death or funeral.

I truly hope it is neither. I am not ready to retire (famous last words) and really don't want to get a new program. I think we should all be prepared as best we can, though. So far, knock wood very loudly, I have had no problems that time and updates have not cured.

[taxxcpa]

CCH is going to survive whether ATX does or not.

[Jack from Ohio]

CCH is going to survive whether ATX does or not.

Doesn't change our dilema...

[Randall]

Like Jack, I've been trying to hang in with ATX. But recently, my thoughts are turning to a possible switch next year. Dread it but sometimes, you have to change.

[joelgilb]

ATX will not only switch you over to TaxWise for free, you can actually get them to let you run both simultaneously (in other words get Taxwise for free and still keep ATX active). I did.

That being said, although TaxWise is better that ATX at the moment, it too has problems, especially in a network setup. Further, my staff and I had issues with TaxWise and found it much more cumbersome.

We found that the time to prepare the same return that we had already prepared in ATX, was essentially the same (45 minutes). This with all ATX's slow lagging behavior. Efile errors were more difficult to correct and more difficult to create. The return manager was severely lacking in information, and IMHO almost certain to lead to a missed efile.

Tha said, I switched to Drake (it was that or Intuit Proseries). Drake screams speed. Same return a third time (ok, doing the same return 3 times does lead to some speed increases but...), 15 minutes!