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Level 1
April 24, 2026

What still has too much manual follow-up in your tax workflow today?

  • April 24, 2026
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I’m trying to understand where manual follow-up is still consuming the most time for firms during tax season.

For teams working inside the Intuit ecosystem today, what still requires too much human chasing?

Examples:

- requesting missing client documents
- following up on unanswered client questions
- keeping status visible across the team
- making sure client responses stay tied to the right return, issue, or transaction

I’m less interested in broad “AI for accounting” ideas and more interested in the actual point where operational drag starts.

If you’ve found a better way to handle one of these, I’d be interested in what changed most:

Would appreciate practical examples from firms that have improved this.

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Level 6
April 24, 2026

Personally, I've had the following pain points and I'll start a separate discussion to get some opinions:

- Manual entry of the brokerage 1099s is very time consuming

- My backlog is usually full by mid-March. I find that kind of early, so I spend the last week or so running estimates so I can tell these clients what to pay by 4/15. How do you all handle extensions and responding to emails those last few weeks.

IRonMaN
Level 15
April 24, 2026

 "Manual entry of the brokerage 1099s is very time consuming"

If they are covered sales, all you need to do is enter totals.

Most of my extensions are for clients typically having refunds so I don't waste a lot of time doing projections.

Slava Ukraini!
Level 6
April 24, 2026

I enter just the totals, but many of my clients have several 1099s so a lot open/close PDFs to get to those totals.