Ask HN: Business tax software for Mac?

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Hey everyone,

Does anyone have any recommendations on business tax software for a Mac? We can't use TurboTax Home & Business because it's only for single member LLCs, and TurboTax Business is only for Windows.

Any suggestions? I know I could install Parallels and all that, but ideally I'd like something that could just work.

Thanks for the suggestions.

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PostBooks (http://www.xtuple.org/) is a fairly capable replacement for Quickbooks on OSX (and Win/*NIX), and has both OSS and Commercial versions.

GnuCash (http://www.gnucash.org/) is another I've used in the past and had good results with. It's more of a Quicken replacement than QuickBooks though.

Honestly. It really depends on the complexity of the company you have. Most tax software is going to be for windows only. Mac has very limited software for Mac because enterprise is traditionall windows.

The short answer is. Save yourself the trouble and just use windows software.

Sorry :(

We are in the tax business. We run everything on Macs, except the tax return prep software (Lacerte, owned by Intuit). For that we have Windows machines. (Performance using Parallels was poopy, and Windows machines are way cheaper than human time.)

We looked. We wanted tax return preparation software on the Mac. We couldn't find any.

Thanks -- that's what I was afraid of. Guess I need to dig up my old PC laptop and make it work.

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