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Index Vendors › TaxAct Business · September 2026 Edition
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TaxAct Business

17Judge labels
3First choices
1Negative labels
10 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in Corporate tax provision for small business buyers
Rank 10 of 98 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 20% of its 5 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In corporate tax provision · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named TaxAct Business for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Corporate tax provisionTax and compliance2%10 of 9820%5under 10 labels · led by Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Tax Provision at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for TaxAct Business yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated TaxAct Business across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00101
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast00011
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.510001

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase6 labelsNone
Comparative2 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained8 labels3
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“TaxAct Business or TurboTax Business provide the best value” MiniMax M2.5 · Corporate tax provision · budget prompt · first choice
“TaxAct or TaxSlayer are the clearest low-cost picks in the results, but those are better aligned to tax preparation” Perplexity Sonar · Corporate tax provision · budget prompt · alternative
“Tools: Drake Tax (small business) or TaxAct Professional (SMB).” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Corporate tax provision · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“found glitches missing deductions; some poor support access.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Corporate tax provision · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as TaxAct Business, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and TaxAct Business was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
TurboTax Business10 of 173Not in the top three
Bloomberg Tax Provision6 of 170Not in the top three
TaxSlayer6 of 170Not in the top three
Avalara4 of 171Not in the top three
H&R Block4 of 170Not in the top three
Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE4 of 170Not in the top three
Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Tax Provision4 of 170Not in the top three
Exactera Tax Provision3 of 172Not in the top three
CSC Corptax3 of 170Not in the top three
FreeTaxUSA3 of 170Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named TaxAct Business. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 16 of the 17 answers that named TaxAct Business and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

worldmetrics.org13
cnbc.com11
gitnux.org8
wifitalents.com8
wise.com8
investopedia.com7
zipdo.co7
capterra.com6
gartner.com6
guideflow.com6

Eighty of the eighty domain citations in answers naming TaxAct Business came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as TaxAct Business

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as TaxAct Business; a claim can dispute any of them.
TaxAct 2TaxAct Professional 1
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when TaxAct Business's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as TaxAct Business, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at taxact.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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