TaxAct Professional

TaxAct Professional is a tax preparation application for US accounting firms, available in both desktop and cloud versions. It supports individual, business, partnership, trust, and estate returns with federal and state e-filing.

Firms use TaxAct Professional as a lower-cost alternative to products like Lacerte, Drake, or UltraTax. It includes client management tools, prior-year data import, and diagnostic checks. The per-return pricing model keeps costs predictable for firms with varying return volumes. Data conversion tools allow firms to import client data from other tax platforms when switching.

The platform is best suited for small to mid-sized US tax practices that handle a mix of individual and business returns and want to keep software costs low. Firms with highly complex return types or those that need deep integration with practice management suites may find the feature set more limited compared to premium alternatives.