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BillSoft® and Smart partner to offer Tax Compliance Software and Expertise to Customers
Philadelphia, PA, February 15, 2005: Smart & Associates LLP, a business advisory and accounting
firm, one of the nation’s foremost experts in tax compliance, and BillSoft,
Inc., the leader for taxation solutions, has announced Smart as the preferred
tax consulting implementation partner for BillSoft’s innovative Total Tax
Solution. BillSoft’s alliance with Smart’s tax consulting expertise, offers
businesses a strong implementation and follow-through assurance procedure.
Teaming together, Smart and BillSoft are implementing tax systems at Transaction
Network Services in Reston, VA, improving their tax compliance capabilities and
client services.
Smart's tax technology professionals incorporate
a highly technical tax background with a thorough knowledge of tax processing
and compliance software package design. Their experience extends beyond the
initial implementation to include post-implementation support and maintenance
that avoids the pitfalls associated with "theory-only" methodologies.
This partnership allows us to serve our clients more effectively by
offering multiple cutting-edge software and implementation options for
transaction tax compliance, said Richard Hofrichter, Smart’s Tax Technology
practice leader.
BillSoft provides software solutions to the
telecommunication, cable, and retail industries worldwide. With an array of tax
completion applications and supporting utilities, BillSoft offers the tools
needed to take control and enhance billing processes. Designed with speed and
reliability in mind, the applications are easy to integrate into existing
billing environments.
The partnership with Smart will benefit our
customers by speeding up the implementation process, says Vicki Klein,
President of BillSoft. Making sure our customers fully utilize our products’
capabilities is important to our growth and position as market leader.
About Smart & Associates
Smart and
Associates, LLP (www.smartllp.com) is a business advisory and accounting
services firm serving clients throughout the U.S. and globally offering
Accounting, Assurance, Tax, Business Management, and Financial Advisory
Services.
About BillSoft, Inc.
BillSoft, a
software and tax solutions development organization specializes in enhancing
billing systems and service bureau products by providing taxation, address
scrubbing, and jurisdiction assignment solutions. BillSoft’s products and
services consist of EZTax, EZData, EZFile, BillSoft Online, EZGeo, EZGeo Online,
EZTax Viewer, tax compliance filing, along with tax and software consulting
services. BillSoft’s flagship product, EZTax, is the most comprehensive tax
package available. Taxing in excess of 1.8 billion transactions per hour, EZTax
is by far the highest performance system on the market. With the availability of
taxation for products and services in 81 countries, EZTax provides the most
comprehensive tax system for the best overall value. EZTax is supported on a
wide array of platforms including the IBM S/390, IBM AS/400, Hewlett Packard’s
HPUX (32 and 62 bit), Data General’s DGUX, Intel Linux, Sun Solaris (32 and 64
bit), IBM RS/6000 AIX, Bull Escala AIX and Windows NT/2000/2003 environments. In
addition, BillSoft is partnered with billing and OSS providers, providing
companies with a one-stop approach and seamless billing/taxation system.
BillSoft® and EZTax ® are registered
trademarks of BillSoft, Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. Copyright
® 2005 BillSoft, Inc., 8220 Marshall Drive, Lenexa, KS 66214. All Rights Reserved.
For more information, please contact:
Heidi Winters, BillSoft, 800-525-8175, sales@billsoft.com
Julie Burgess, Smart & Associates, LLP, 610-254-0700, jburgess@smartllp.com
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