Drake Software blog for tax pros, covering tax, IRS news, and more
Drake Software and Macon County schools produced more than 3,000 Christmas cards for the American Red Cross (ARC) Holiday for Heroes project and more than 100 cards for the second annual Holiday Cards for Cops program.…
Last week, Meta Financial Group, Inc. and its subsidiary, MetaBank, announced the acquisition of EPS Financial LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Drake Enterprises, Ltd. The Meta Financial Group press release noted that the purchase of EPS Financial from Drake Enterprises was for roughly $42.5 million – half in Meta Financial stock and half in cash – and would close in the fourth quarter of 2016.…
John Sapp, Vice President of Strategic Development for Drake Software, has been appointed to the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee. The ETAAC was established in 1998 to confront tax…
Read more about Drake’s John Sapp Named to National Advisory Panel
Employees at Drake Software’s Hayesville, NC call center recently gathered and donated enough canned goods and nonperishable food items to feed more than 300 families as part of their “Let’s Can…
Read more about Drake Employees' "Let's Can Hunger" Food Drive a Success
Completion Counts Toward IRS's Annual Filing Season Program (AFSP) RequirementDrake Software, an IRS-approved CE provider, will begin offering its 2017 AFTR course this week, providing tax preparers…
Read more about Drake Software's 2017 Annual Federal Tax Refresher (AFTR) Course Now Available
April 18 – or April 19 for preparers in Maine and Massachusetts – doesn’t actually mean the end of tax-related work. There are still extensions that require your attention and tax-planning meetings…
Read more about Drake Software Classroom Training and CPE Opportunities
Every year it seems like Congress waits until the last minute to make changes to the tax code. Lately, many of the changes are retroactive, as changes are made in December that affect the current tax…
In its 2014 annual survey, Sorting Out Software, the National Association of Tax Preparers (NATP) rated, among other things, how well each software package performed in converting client data from…
Drake Software e-SignatureAs a tax preparer, do you think about the time it takes to sign returns and other documents? They are, after all, just signatures. But multiply those legal signatures across…
In the effort to survive and thrive in today’s highly competitive business environment, accounting firms have looked to the integration of applications to provide the greater efficiencies their…
