TaxCalc Reviews 

322
TrustScore 4 out of 5

4.1

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Evaluating 255 reviews, reviewers had a great experience with this company. Customers frequently praise the support team for their exceptional helpfulness, patience, and knowledge when assisting with various issues. Many people appreciate the prompt and swift responses from the helpline, often resolving problems quickly and efficiently. Reviewers also find the software intuitive, easy to use, and effective for managing tax returns, making complex requirements understandable. However, some customers also noted significant waiting times to connect with support, with several mentioning delays of 20 to 45 minutes. A few other people also felt that the user experience could be improved, citing issues like small font sizes or difficulties with specific form submissions.

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

I've been using TaxCalc for many years, sometimes doing as many as four tax returns for various family members each year. The user interface is a little dated and possibly confusing for new users, but... See more

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Simple Steps makes filling in the self assessment relatively easy. Being able to make notes with each entry makes comparison year to year simpler. I had a problem with entering the very long name of... See more

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

I have used Taxcalc for at least 6 years and find it brilliant and simple and very helpful. I did have this year a lot of problems getting the software downloaded onto my laptop but the person at Tax... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Had to phone support several times today, as I'd got a new Mac, and was having trouble re-installing the TaxCalc App 🙄 (mostly because I was being stupid!). Your advisors have the patience of saints... See more


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  1. #12 of 13 best companies in Tax preparation software
  2. #18 of 20 best companies in Accounting Software Company
  3. #105 of 128 best companies in Software company

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Award-winning tax and accountancy software. TaxCalc is the complete tax, accounts and practice software suite trusted by over 11,000 accountancy firms in the UK.


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TrustScore 4 out of 5

322 reviews

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Support experience

Whilst email responses are ok in many instances, sometimes speaking to a person usually makes things much clearer. This is especially true if the customer is not software savvy.
I have tried and failed to call a number
of times.

2 July 2026
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I have been using Taxcalc from long…

I have been using Taxcalc from long time. Used it on my desktop for my self assessment. It's very intuitive and very easy to complete. I used basic features so cannot say much about other features like what if, VAT etc

Simple software and gets updated regularly. Well priced too

1 July 2026
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Tax calc

Find that the Training support is use the system fully is limited

1 July 2026
Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Tangible assets restricted

An excellent product but you should be aware that you are restricted to 7 classes of Tangible assets. This is enough for the majority of our clients but we have a couple where it means that we are combining items. These clients are separating the items in their books and don't understand why we cannot follow the same procedure. It also effects the import of data.

1 July 2026
Rated 3 out of 5 stars

TaxCalc is an invaluable piece of…

TaxCalc is an invaluable piece of software. With good support for standard tax returns, MTD for VAT and MTD for IT.

I find their support staff helpful.

However, there are a (seemingly increasing) number of bugs in the software, which give the impression that it is being rushed out without sufficient testing.

In the past few months, there have been issues with crashing when entering foreign income, (on the Mac) crashing just when you exit the program, bugs on importing data for MTD for VAT and quite serious oversight bugs on importing CSV with quote delimiters around values which have thousand separators (e.g., ,"10,123.45",) which are very common outputs from spreadsheets, but which TaxCalc just chokes on.

It's quite a concern, because this is software that I've come to rely on - and generally, it's very good - but something definitely seems to be going wrong in development and testing.

And when it comes to tax software, that's not great.

I desperately want to give them five stars, but they need to test more and improve their development processes.

1 July 2026
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent Product highly recommended

Excellent Product - lots of answered support queries, easy submission of personal tax returns to HMRC. (had never done this before)
Highly recommended.
(Tip - I used the Linux version, it failed to run on Ubuntu but no problems running this on Linux Mint)

1 July 2026

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