Getting started with Tax Manager

Accountants Enterprise only

Tax Manager provides you an interactive way to manage your client’s tax information on the screen. The main screens and functions you will use in Tax Manager are:

Window/Function	Description
Find Tax Clients page	his page lists all your tax clients in a table. You can sort, group, filter and search the list of clients to find clients you are interested in. This replaces the traditional reporting functions on AE Tax.
Client page Tax tab	This tab allows you to view and set each client’s tax details and settings.
Tax Manager window	his window opens to show you the tax details for a client. There are several views and tools you can you can use: Summary view — shows an overview of alerts, return summary, provisional tax, losses. Assessments are reconciled from this view. Transactions view — shows all transactions recorded in Tax Manager including assessments. IRD statement view — shows the transactions downloaded from the IRD for this client. Reconciliation view — shows the reconciliation of Tax Manager and IRD transactions (excluding assessments and interest). Tax Notice details view — shows the details of the selected tax notice. Provisional tax calculator — allows you to calculate your client’s provisional tax amounts using the standard and estimation calculation methods. Voluntary amounts can be added. Interest calculator — allows you to quickly calculate and compare your client’s use of money interest for a given year. Student loan interim calculator — allows you to quickly calculate and compare your client’s repayment obligation for a given year.
Tax Notices page	This page lists all tax notices for all tax clients for a selected month. You can then process your tax notices from this page, for example you can: change the status of a group of tax notices. For example you can select all the tax notices with a nil amount and mark them as Not required so you do not print them identify any tax notices that have an alert that needs to be resolved before you print the tax notices access the tax notice details for a client preview and print a batch of tax notices.
Filing Statistics page	This page helps you monitor the filing statistics for your practice.
Missed Payments page	This page provides a list of all the clients in your practice who have missed their payments within a specified date range.
IRD Data page	This page lets you see the data that is downloaded from the IRD during your scheduled downloads. You can switch between displaying unreconciled transactions, all downloaded transactions for a particular date, or deferred transactions.
Alerts page	This page displays all clients in the current, last, and future years that have alerts. The list is produced by alert, so a client may appear more than once if the client has multiple alerts. Columns can be added using the field chooser, removed, or filtered, similar to other pages.