As a tax preparer and a business owner you have to keep track of a lot of data and documents. Identification, W2s, Schedule As, 1099s, receipts, and more are just a few examples of all the documents you could receive from just one client! What about 20? 50? Or Even 100 clients! If you don’t have an efficient system to deal with all these documents then you could be drowning in paper or worse, spend the day searching through a maze of filing cabinets. We haven’t even scratched the surface of the stress and time wasting poor document management is causing your tax business but what about the monetary cost of all these documents?
By the Numbers
Let’s talk about paper. One ream of basic copy/ printer paper costs $12.99 and gives you 500 sheets of paper. That’s a pretty good amount of paper right? Well if your client emails you their forms and you have to print those for your files, then print their return information out for them, you could realistically be printing 50 pages per client. Then there are the other costs associated with paper files. Ink and toner can easily cost $50 or more and you will probably need to purchase it more than once over the course of a tax season. Where will you put all these documents and files once you are done with a return? In your filing cabinets of course! A decent filing cabinet will cost your tax office around $250. We haven’t even touched on folders, staples, the printer itself or the time spent searching for the right documents. Realistically the cost of organizing your documents like this is taking a bigger chunk of your profits then you probably realized.
How Do I Fix This?
So you want to save a couple bucks AND organize your documents more efficiently? Then digital is the way to go tax pro! Document management solutions are available that will allow your tax business to store documents online, access them whenever you need them, and organize them by client and year. Document management software isn’t free but the cost of a software subscription is significantly less than what you are currently spending to print and file away paper documents.
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