estimated taxes
The IRS is dismantling the tax payment rails firms have relied on for decades, and the replacements were never designed for how firms actually move client money. Paper checks are gone, EFTPS for individuals is winding down, and the last mile is up for grabs.
Business Insights & Strategy
Executive Order 14247 phased out federal paper checks, pushing firms onto Direct Pay and EFTPS replacements built for a single person paying once, not a firm running hundreds of payments a month. The mandate arrived. The firm-grade replacement did not.
Product Releases
Tax and accounting platforms can now run tax payment execution inside their own product, through a widget library you install in your own app.
Business Insights & Strategy
For two quarters, buyers on demo calls have described the same broken shape: workflow, delivery, and prep run smoothly, then the tax payment falls out into a portal nobody wants to log into. Here is why we built the payment layer under Thomson Reuters SafeSend.
Business Insights & Strategy
Firms keep chasing the perfect tax-payment tool while their real bottleneck sits somewhere else entirely. Client adoption is the project the software cannot solve on its own, and the September deadline is closing the runway to figure it out.
Remitian is partnering with Thomson Reuters to bring tax payment execution into SafeSend, giving customers in the United States a single path from tax preparation through client tax payments. The final manual step in the tax workflow becomes part of the workflow.
Product Releases
Remitian now supports exempt organization payments. Form 990-T and Form 990-PF, balance due and estimated tax, federal, on the same workflow as every other client.
accounting firms
Federal payment modernization is pushing accounting firms into a payment execution role they never asked for, while vendors keep selling it as advisory upside. The gap between the pitch and what partners actually say is this quarter's real story.
Business Insights & Strategy
The IRS is forcing every client onto digital payment rails, and the accounting work that comes with it, walking clients through portals, confirming payments, cleaning up bad routing numbers, already looks like a concierge service. Firms just forgot to charge for it.
Business Insights & Strategy
The average accounting firm runs ten apps. One in three runs eleven or more. In four back to back demos, partners said the same thing. The tool works, but it would be one more place their clients log in. So they passed.
Industry News & Trends
Federal payments are going fully electronic on a schedule. The local layer isn't. Firms describe city licenses paid by check, bank portals walked one client at a time, and entity mismatches at state DORs that quietly eat their senior staff hours.
Behind the Scenes
Filing got automated decades ago. Payment never did, and most firms are still cutting checks by hand while the IRS quietly closes the rails they depend on. The compliance stack ends exactly where the real client work begins.