Tax Intelligence

Tax preparation, filing and ongoing compliance

Tax Intelligence is Source360's tax service for businesses and individuals in the United States and Canada. We prepare and file your returns from the financial records you already have, and handle the compliance work that continues between filings.

Executive Summary

Preparation, filing, and the work in between

Tax Intelligence covers the full tax cycle. Tax information is prepared from your financial records, returns are completed and submitted within the applicable jurisdiction, and the supporting documentation is organised for whatever follows.

It is a different job from Financial Reporting, though it depends on it. Financial Reporting produces the statements that set out your financial position. Tax Intelligence takes that information and applies it to your tax obligations — the returns, the filings and the compliance requirements that follow.

Because both run inside the same firm, your records, your reports and your returns stay connected instead of being rebuilt by separate providers.

When It Applies

When businesses come to us for tax support

These are the situations where businesses stop handling tax internally and bring in professional support.

  • Complex filing requirements

    The returns have grown complicated enough that preparing them internally takes longer than the finance team can spare.

  • Changing obligations

    What you are required to file keeps shifting, and keeping track of it has become a job in itself.

  • Cross-border requirements

    Operating in both the United States and Canada means obligations in each, and they need handling together rather than separately.

  • Filing deadlines

    Deadlines are being met at the last minute, or missed, because the information needed to file is not ready in time.

  • Tax and accounting out of step

    What was filed and what the accounts show do not quite match, so every query takes work to answer.

  • Expanding into new jurisdictions

    A move into a new market brings tax obligations the business has not dealt with before and needs help assessing.

How It Works

How tax work connects to the rest of your finances

Tax Intelligence works from information the other services already produce, and passes what it finds on to the ones that need it.

  • Grounded in Accounting Solutions

    Accurate records are what make accurate returns possible, so tax work starts from bookkeeping that is already complete and reconciled.

  • Built on Financial Reporting

    Financial Reporting produces the statements your tax position is calculated from, so the figures you file match the figures you have already signed off.

  • Sustained by Outsourcing Services

    Where filing season needs more hands than the team has, Outsourcing Services supplies the capacity to keep the work on schedule.

What Changes

What you get from tax handled properly

  • Tax records that match your accounts

    What you file and what your accounts show agree, so a question from either direction can be answered without an investigation.

  • Fewer errors to correct

    Returns are prepared from reconciled records by people who do this work routinely, which is what keeps corrections and amendments rare.

  • Less administrative work

    The gathering, checking and chasing that surrounds a filing is handled for you, rather than falling on the finance team each period.

  • Confidence in what was filed

    You know what was submitted, what it was based on, and where the supporting documentation sits if anyone asks.

  • Compliance you can keep up

    Compliance runs as a routine through the year instead of becoming an emergency each time a deadline approaches.

  • Deadlines met without a scramble

    Filings are prepared ahead of the date rather than against it, so the deadline stops being the thing that shapes the month.

Engagement Journey

From your records to a filed return

Every engagement follows the same four steps, so you know what is needed from you and when.

  1. Review

    We review your financial records and current tax position, so what applies to you is established before any work begins.

  2. Preparation

    Tax information is prepared from those records, with the supporting documentation organised alongside it rather than assembled later.

  3. Filing

    Returns are completed and submitted within the applicable jurisdiction, with anything that needs explaining settled before submission.

  4. Ongoing compliance

    Compliance work continues between filings, so records stay current and the next return does not start from scratch.

Where It Applies

Tax requirements differ by industry and by territory. The need to file accurately and on time does not. These are the industries we work in most often.

Let's Talk Through It.

Speak with an advisor about the reporting, compliance or capacity questions your business is working through.

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