Resources for tax teams choosing and running software.

The Income Tax Software Selection Toolkit: a practical selection guide and the 2026 requirements workbook in Enterprise and Lean editions, plus the Enterprise Security Overview on request. Written for in-house tax functions and the procurement, IT and advisory teams supporting them.

The buyer's kit

Evidence, not impressions.

The workbook lists what tax functions now require of income tax compliance and reporting software, and the evidence each requirement demands. It does not score or weight anything; that is yours to do. The guide is how you run the selection so the evidence arrives.

Cover of the RFP Guide for Software Buyers, Running the process, September 2026
PDF · 11 pages

Choosing Income Tax Software

A practical selection guide for a formal tender or a comparison of two vendors: tailor, issue, shortlist, demo, reference, proof of concept, decide. The one rule: ask them to click it. Anything described and not shown is recorded as not shown.

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Cover of the Requirements Baseline 2026, Enterprise edition
Excel · 143 requirements

Requirements Workbook, Enterprise edition

143 requirements across 16 areas, each with the evidence the vendor must show and state in writing. For groups with more than one ERP, foreign operations or more than one consolidated group. Includes the scenario, six seeded errors, process steps, an effort plan and 24 demo questions.

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Cover of the Requirements Baseline 2026, Lean edition
Excel · 80 requirements

Requirements Workbook, Lean edition

The core 80 requirements under the same IDs, for a single-ERP, mostly domestic group preparing the provision and the return in house. Same scenario, seeded errors and demo questions, with less of everything.

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Get the guide and the workbooks

Name, work email and company. We email you the guide and both workbooks.

PDF
Choosing Income Tax Software: A Practical Selection Guide
11 pages · 6.3 MB
Excel
Requirements Workbook, Enterprise edition
143 requirements · 11 sheets · 71 KB
Excel
Requirements Workbook, Lean edition
80 requirements · 11 sheets · 57 KB
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Enterprise Security Overview

Version 1.5, July 2026. Hosting, encryption, access control, audit trail, continuity and incident response, with our controls set out against the SOC 1 control objectives so your security and SOX teams can review them before the reports are issued. Available to prospective clients and their security teams on request.

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