Deloitte switches to CCH

Deloitte has turned to an external software supplier, CCH, in order to meet its growing demand for online personal tax filings – with the firm processing over 20,000 returns over the internet in the last tax year.

The Big Four firm has chosen CCH to supply personal tax software following its decision to upgrade existing software which was under pressure as HMRC continues to incentivise the move to online filing.

The firm undertook a search for external suppliers and chose CCH, owned by Wolters Kluwer, as it believed the software was the most easily transferable with existing data.

Andy Lodge, tax partner at Deloitte said: 'We needed to find a suitable replacement for our existing tax solution.'

'Only CCH provided the tools that could make this possible and its tax software was by far the easiest to use, significantly speeding up the completion time for returns' he added.

Deloitte made 22,000 efilings in the last tax year 2008-09 equating to approximately 1,200 per day during the peak filing period.

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