Meet The Tax Readiness Report, Your Pre-Filing Gut Check

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03 Aug 2026

Every filing season, something slips through the cracks. A client tells you their estimated payment was one number. The IRS apparently has another. A new W-2 mysteriously lands in a client’s mailbox days after you’ve gotten the e-file confirmation. Nobody notices until an underpayment or CP2000 notice shows up, often many months later.

That is the gap the Tax Readiness Report is built to close.

What It Actually Checks

The Tax Readiness Report runs two checks on every client, automatically, before you file.

  1. Payment verification helps reconcile what a client reported paying against what the IRS actually has on record, including any IRS adjustments (e.g., to prior year carryforwards) made along the way.  
  2. Form verification compares third-party forms, W-2s, 1099s, and similar documents on the current-year IRS Wage & Income transcript against the prior-year transcript, so any form that is new, inconsistent, or missing does not go through unnoticed.

Two checks, built on real IRS data, done before you file. Not after a client gets a letter and calls you in a panic. That is not a lot to ask. It is exactly what most clients already assume you are doing.

No Chasing, Just Checking

Most firms catch a mismatch the hard way: pulling a transcript, comparing it line by line to the return or client organizer, usually because a notice sparked a review. The Tax Readiness Report provides a one-stop shop to efficiently run these checks the moment you open a client's profile, so the comparison is already done and waiting, no manual pulling, no cross-referencing by hand.

Less digging, less guessing. Just open the report and see where that client stands.

Why People Are Already Using It

Blake Meester, CEO & Managing Shareholder at MCO Advisors, put it simply after using Tax Readiness Report on his own client list:

"Transparency and visibility we would not have otherwise had. It solves a problem of alerting us to issues that are coming, so we can be proactive on something that we would have otherwise had to be reactive to, to put out a fire.”

That is the actual shift here. Not more work, less of it, and earlier, while it is still easy to fix.

Getting Started

The Tax Readiness Report is live inside your TaxNow dashboard. Setup takes minutes, not weeks, and there is nothing new to train your team on beyond pointing them to the new tab.

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