GLENVIEW, Ill. – SurePayroll has launched a Referral Rewards program which can provide accountants, bookkeepers and other business consultants with rewards for referring clients who become customers of the online payroll company. The program follows on last month’s announcement of a reseller program with tiered pricing discounts.

Those who enroll in the Referral Program can submit a referral on the Referral Rewards Program web page. If a referral becomes a SurePayroll Customer within a year, the referrer has the choice of receiving a $50 gift card or a $50 donation in that person’s name to one of 10 charities, including the Make-a-Wish Foundation, American Forests, American Red Cross and the Susan G. Komen for the Cure for Breast Cancer Research.

ROSEMONT, Ill. – CCH and Intuit signaled their plans for broad Internet-product suites at the Midwest Accounting and Finance Showcase, suites that won’t quickly replace desktop-based software, but that represent the vendors’ development path over the next few years.

CCH delivered the most specific plans which include an October launch of SaaS-versions of ProSystem fx Tax, Document and Practice applications that will be tied together by a common database that will let them share information to eliminate the need to re-enter data, such as client contact information, into each application.

Rosemont, Ill.  –  SmartVault, which makes document management products for QuickBooks, has introduced the SmartVault Accountant Edition, which the company says is designed to manage all of a firm's client documents and communications.

The new edition is aimed at providing “the ability to streamline the process of setting up your entire firm,” says marketing manager Allie Collins.
The product provides streamlined client setup and management; enhanced security access levels for both firm and client users. Use is free to members of the accounting firm and free training and orientation sessions are available for clients. SmartVault also offers the SmartVault Business Edition, which enables business users to communicate and collaborate with their accountant or bookkeeper. Business can utilize different access levels for users and can also invite an accountant or bookkeeper as a free user.

The new editions will be available on August 31. Both products start at $19 per client, per month, but accountants and bookkeepers can purchase the Accountant Edition for $17.10 per month per client for a limited time. Discounts up to an additional 25 percent for multiple clients are available.

WASHINGTON – The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters is offering a series of seminars about 1099 Tax Compliance led by Marianne Couch, J.D., a renowned expert in federal and state tax information reporting.

The co-founder of Cokala, Couch was formerly research director at Balance Consulting and a member of the IRS Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee. Three days of individual seminars will be held in several major cities. Participants can register for any number of days as they will feature different subjects.

Topics covered on Day One include payments made during 2009 that must be reported to the IRS on a Form 1099 and specific categories of payees and payments that are not reportable; Day Two is an advanced session that features discussion on state and local requirements for tax reporting as well as requirements to report new contractors and withhold tax in some instances and how the ‘disregarded entities’ concept works and how to track the owner of income through the appropriate documentation;  Day Three specializes in the subject of making payments to foreign payees.
Information is available at  http://onesource.thomsonreuters.com/incometax/1099/.