It’s tax-time and what’s better than spending your holidays thumbing through boxes and filing cabinets for that one receipt you just can’t seem to find! If this sounds like you, then it may be time to reduce your carbon footprint, increase efficiency, and go paperless!
Below are just three of the many reasons to go paperless.
Stop Digging
More and more businesses each year are ditching their need for paper, especially when it comes to tax time. During this rushed season, you need an efficient way to find documents without hesitation. The faster you can deliver them to your local CPA, the better.
Did you know that reducing your paper consumption will not only save the environment but can also save money and optimize your customer experience?
Examine your expenses, open new doors
As you compile your records for this year’s tax returns, look and see how much your spending on paper itself, including receipts, invoices, printer paper, and envelopes. Also, inspect your office or store and see how many filing cabinets are taking up space.
Ensuring that most of your documents are digital, will make retrieving them much faster. You can quickly search your computer or with cloud-based storage, search your documents from anywhere. This is especially useful for your accountant when they need to refer to specific documents or verify numbers, give them access and they can find anything they need.
Grow your bottom line
When you optimize the way you record documents, it not only allows for a more mainstream customer experience, it gives you direct access to customer information, like email. This opens a ton of opportunity to send customer newsletters, promotions and sales, and other communications to generate sales. You and your accountant will love the increased revenue and reduced expenses at the end of the year.
Going paperless will not only take the stress out of tax time but can increase efficiency, grow your marketing, and reduce your carbon footprint. Imagine no longer having to sort through all your company files to find necessary documents to provide to your accountant!
If you haven’t thought about going paperless, you should!