- Complex return coverage: Handles individual, partnership, corporate, consolidated, life-insurance, and tax-equalization work for professional teams.
- Shared return access: Lets multiple preparers and reviewers work in the same return.
- SubView and entity detail: Gives teams member-level amounts within large consolidated structures.
- Allocation and apportionment: Supports multi-state calculations and complex entity allocation.
- Imports, diagnostics, and e-file: Brings data into the return, flags issues for review, and sends supported returns electronically.
GoSystem
Enterprise professional tax software for complex and consolidated returns
Updated August 12, 2026
GoSystem Overview
GoSystem Tax RS is web-based professional tax software for accounting firms and corporate tax departments handling complex individual, partnership, corporate, and consolidated returns. Teams can import data, work in the same return, review member-level amounts, run diagnostics, and send completed returns through electronic filing.
The platform is built for trained preparers and large tax operations, not consumers filing their own returns. Its strongest fit is a firm that needs multi-state allocation, large consolidated structures, and links to a wider Thomson Reuters workflow.
Key Features
Pricing
| Plan or service | Current price | Billing and scope |
|---|---|---|
| GoSystem Tax RS license | Custom quote | The public product page does not list a standard license amount or billing unit. |
| Implementation and services | Custom quote | Migration, setup, training, return types, users, and connected workflows depend on the engagement. |
| Product demonstration | Free demo | A sales demonstration is available. It is not access to the licensed product. |
Ask sales to state the license unit, included return types, user count, implementation work, renewal basis, and any test access in writing.
Pricing sources: Thomson Reuters GoSystem Tax RS. Trial cross-check: Thomson Reuters tax-software guide.
Pros
| Compared with | Why this product may fit better |
|---|---|
| Drake Tax | GoSystem handles complex multi-entity clients, consolidated returns, and large-firm review work that is beyond Drake Tax’s usual small and midsize practice. A firm with sophisticated corporate clients may need those deeper tools even though they add cost and complexity. |
| TaxWise | GoSystem has broader API access and lets several people work in the same return. A large firm that needs tax data to move through other systems may gain more from those connections than it would from TaxWise’s smaller-office setup. |
| ProConnect | GoSystem is built for very large and complex clients, including consolidated returns. ProConnect is easier for many smaller firms, but a large practice may need GoSystem when its hardest corporate clients decide the software requirements. |
| CrossLink | GoSystem includes advanced allocation, apportionment, SubView, and controls for large organizations. CrossLink is centered more on 1040-led offices, so firms with complex corporate structures should test the specific GoSystem jobs their clients require. |
Cons
| Compared with | Where this product may fall short |
|---|---|
| Drake Tax | GoSystem does not publish a standard license price and takes more setup than Drake Tax. A small practice can budget Drake from its public price list, while a GoSystem buyer needs a written scope, implementation plan, and renewal assumptions. |
| TaxWise | GoSystem reviewers report slow large returns, an older interface, and diagnostics that can require overrides. A firm considering TaxWise should test its biggest returns, simultaneous users, and review steps in a realistic GoSystem pilot. |
| ProConnect | GoSystem takes longer to learn than ProConnect’s browser product and can be excessive for a firm that mainly prepares straightforward individual returns. A smaller team should confirm that its complex clients truly need the added enterprise controls before accepting the extra work. |
Reviews
- G2 GoSystem Tax RS reviews (3.9/5 from 32 reviews): Reviewers praise the range of returns, bulk federal and state work, K-1 and other imports, diagnostics, and time saved on complex clients. Complaints describe slow large returns, an old-fashioned interface, hard-to-follow diagnostics, support waits, and overrides or state steps that are not intuitive.
- Reddit GoSystem practitioner thread (one 2021 discussion): The original poster struggled with the organizer, navigation, printing, and finding imports. A detailed reply said GoSystem can handle returns with thousands of PFIC entries, hundreds of subsidiaries, and very large apportionment sets, while also calling imports less intuitive and support frustrating. The thread is useful historical practitioner context, not a rating.
