Small business▲+21Since September 2026: 4% → 24%, +21 points. Past the 10-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
24%from 4% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 11 pointsRank 7 → 1 of 97
1 category · RankedTaxAct Business
47Judge labels
22First choices
1Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
28% in Corporate tax provision for small business buyers
Rank 3 of 102 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 10 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of TaxAct Business →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business1 of 108
28%37 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market3 of 102
13%10 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
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.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate tax provision | Tax and compliance | 13% | 3 of 102 | 0% | 10 | accepted challenger | ▲+13Since September 2026: 2% → 16%, +13 points. Past the 10-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, TaxAct Business moved past the floor in its one category, Corporate tax provision, +13 points to 16%.
Best category · Corporate tax provision · by segment
Mid-market▲+13Since September 2026: 2% → 16%, +13 points. Past the 10-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
16%from 2% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 3 pointsRank 9 → 3 of 94
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate tax provision | 2% | 16% | ▲+13Since September 2026: 2% → 16%, +13 points. Past the 10-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. | Moved past the floor | Rank 9 → 3 of 102 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 10 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated TaxAct Business across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated TaxAct Business across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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
Direct11 labels3
Paraphrase8 labels2
Comparative3 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained20 labels16
Scale-constrained3 labels1
Negative2 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative47 labels in all, every segment counted; 22 of the 24 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 \u2013 Best Value for Small Companies ... at ~$170-280/year is your most cost-effective option” Kimi K2 · Corporate tax provision · budget prompt · first choice
“Top Recommendation: TaxAct Business ... Often cited as the most cost-effective professional-grade option.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Corporate tax provision · budget prompt · first choice
“TaxAct Business is generally considered the best value for small businesses with limited budgets” Mistral Small · Corporate tax provision · budget prompt · first choice
“TaxAct Business or TurboTax Business would be the most cost-effective starting points” MiniMax M2.5 · Corporate tax provision · budget prompt · first choice
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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as TaxAct Business, over the 46 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as TaxAct Business, over the 46 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 46 of the 46 answers that named TaxAct Business and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
pickmysoft.com33
zipdo.co30
worldmetrics.org28
gitnux.org24
rightworks.com20
us.fitgap.com20
wifitalents.com20
wise.com18
itechguides.com17
softwareadvice.com17
227 of the 227 domain citations in answers naming TaxAct Business came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
taxact.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, TaxAct Business takes 13% of first choices and Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Tax Provision takes 21%.ShowHide
Search and answers
taxact.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, TaxAct Business takes 13% of first choices and Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Tax Provision takes 21%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “tax provision tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “corporate tax provision software”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,900 a month (“taxact business”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 18 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 3,279,089 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 145,768 · 9,879 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 9,550
- Paid Google search
- 3 searches its ads show for, about 9 clicks and $27 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
13%
rank 3 of 102 in corporate tax provision
Segment leader
21%
Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Tax Provision
- First choices
- 22 across its categories
- Named in
- 46 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 46 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on taxact.com
7,506
subdomains included
Content
1,166
counted in the table below
Documentation
1,753
Product · Integration
31 · 20
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 853 | 33 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| News or press | 103 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 67 | 29 | 2026-09-11 | ||
| Comparison | 53 | 2 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Template or tool | 52 | 0 | 2026-06-03 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 18 | 0 | 2025-11-17 | ||
| Podcast or video | 9 | undated | |||
| Case study | 5 | 0 | 2015-10-06 | ||
| Conference or event | 3 | 0 | 2025-05-30 | ||
| Report or ebook | 3 | 0 | 2022-07-20 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Gift tax supporting adult children blog
- 2026-09-28Are daycare expenses tax deductible blog
- 2026-09-28New form 1099 k reporting thresholds blog
- 2026-09-24Understanding adjusted gross income blog
- 2026-09-24Itemized vs above line deductions comparison
- 2026-09-17Head of household vs married filing jointly comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page taxact.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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 1TaxAct Professional 1
Follow TaxAct Business
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
TaxAct Business is its own company.ShowHide
The company
TaxAct Business is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Business taxes, made easy
- For
- Partnerships, C Corporations, S Corporations, Sole Proprietors, and Tax-Exempt Orgs
- Price stated
- Business Forty Bundle $1,095 / year; Business Pay-Per-Return $279.99 / year taxact.com/professional/products/bundles
- Starting price
- 279.99 taxact.com/professional/products/bundles
- Free plan or trial
- start free and pay when you file taxact.com/security
- Certifications
- 100% credentialed tax expertsPayment Card Industry compliantTRUSTe Certified PrivacyAuthorized e-file provider
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting, customers
What TaxAct Business's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: taxact.com, taxact.com/security, taxact.com/professional/products/bundles. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
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.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for TaxAct Business by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where TaxAct Business is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name TaxAct Business, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where TaxAct Business is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where TaxAct Business is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideTaxAct Business is among the products AI models recommend first in Corporate tax provision this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.