Updated June 14, 2019: The proper business supplies make your customer’s offices more efficiently organized—especially during tax season. Tax season can be a daunting time of year, especially for accountants, CPAs, and more. WalletHub estimates that Americans spend approximately 8.1 billion hours preparing tax returns. The total cost of IRS paperwork is $194.3 billion!
While time is money during tax season, the risk of identity theft and fraud also increases. $12.2 billion in tax refund fraud was attempted in 2019. Luckily, 86% of attempted fraud was prevented by the IRS.
Most of us dread tax season. However, being prepared with the right products can relieve pressure for your customers filing taxes for their clients. So, what are the best options for their tax businesses?
Petra wants to partner with you to help your customers be better organized and less stressed during tax time. Preparing to file taxes once tax season rolls around might remind your customers of the importance of keeping important paper and digital documents safe and secure.
For customers who are looking for a place to organize and store tax documents safely, fire safes are a good place to start. While a large portion of transactions can be tracked digitally, customers still want a secure place to store physical items. That’s why fire safes are a great choice. They protect important documents from both prying eyes and the dangers of fire.
What about all of those digital files? We know all too well that computers can crash, so the digital documents stored on them are not necessarily secure. To keep these digital documents safe, portable hard drives are a great choice for backing up computers. For a smaller storage solution, a flash drive is an ideal choice. While smaller and less secure, they’re designed for ultimate portability. If your customers want physical copies of digital files, they can burn information onto discs and store those in a safe location—like their new fire safe!
Your customers will thank you when they know where to find that one document that they thought they lost.
Once your customers gather those important documents together and are ready to do the math, they’re going to need business calculators to handle the job. Yes, we all have calculators on our smartphones, but business calculators provide important functions that smartphones can’t.
“Identity theft isn’t a joke, Jim.” It’s a nightmare for those who have to suffer through it, and you can do something to help prevent it from happening to your customers.
Did you know that when your customers throw their sensitive tax documents in the trashcan they might as well be throwing away their identity? It only takes one person to grab that information out of the garbage, to take that information and assume someone else’s identity.
That is where the necessity of a paper shredder comes in and we’ve got some smart, powerful shredders to offer your customers a much-needed solution to this problem.
What are some other business supplies your customers might need every tax season? What can help make them better prepared, more efficient, and less stressed? Visit petra.com and learn more about our business supplies and to become a Petra partner today!