From tax return to tax strategy.
1040.guru helps tax professionals identify planning opportunities, develop the right facts, compare alternatives, quantify the economic result, and turn professional judgment into clear client recommendations.
S Corporation Analysis
Compare the current treatment with a modeled alternative.
(Schedule C)
(Modeled)
See the facts, assumptions, calculations, and reasoning behind the modeled result.
analysis.
Better
advice.
Clients expect more than a tax return.
Demand is moving beyond compliance toward proactive planning and advisory work. The opportunity is substantial — while the technology and workflow needed to deliver planning consistently are still developing across the profession.
See the industry evidence →of respondents say clients strongly want additional financial advice.
of surveyed firms said tax strategy was already part of their service portfolio.
said they did not use other technology to review returns for planning opportunities.
Peer communities are valuable for discovery. They are not tax authority.
Facebook groups, practitioner forums, newsletters, CE discussions, and trusted colleagues often surface the questions tax professionals need to investigate. They can be extraordinarily useful for experience, issue spotting, and practical perspective.
But a planning recommendation should not depend on whether the most confident comment in a thread happens to be correct. 1040.guru is being built around a different standard: practitioner intelligence discovers the question; governing authority establishes the answer.
Surface the issue from the client, return, practitioner experience, or professional community.
Develop material facts and test the issue against appropriate authority.
Use governed calculations where certified capability exists.
Preserve the practitioner’s professional judgment and documented conclusion.
Start where the economics get real: Schedule C → S Corporation.
1040.guru begins with one of the most common and consequential business-owner planning questions. But the analysis goes beyond a payroll-tax comparison. It brings Reasonable Compensation, operating costs, supported state effects, implementation costs, and Net Economic Benefit into the same decision.
Explore Schedule C → S CorpTax savings are an input. Net Economic Benefit is the target.
A planning strategy can reduce tax while adding payroll, professional fees, state taxes, implementation costs, and ongoing administrative expense. NEB brings those decision-relevant effects together so the practitioner can evaluate what the strategy is actually modeled to produce economically.
Why NEB matters →Useful even when a full calculation module does not exist.
1040.guru is not intended to become useless merely because a question falls outside a certified calculation module. Navigator should still help the practitioner frame the issue, identify the material facts, organize authority, test exceptions, surface implementation concerns, and determine what needs further review.
The boundary must remain explicit. If there is no certified engine for the issue, Navigator should say so rather than inventing tax savings, NEB, or an “optimal” answer.
How Navigator is governed →Identify
Opportunities
Uncover issues that deserve planning attention.
Develop
the Facts
Ask only what is material to the decision.
Analyze
Alternatives
Use governed calculations when certified capability exists.
Support
Your Judgment
Keep assumptions, authority, limitations, and review visible.
Deliver
the Plan
Produce a clear client explanation and a defensible workpaper.
Clear for the client. Defensible for the practitioner.
The client needs a concise explanation of the recommendation, economic impact, and next steps. The practitioner needs the deeper record: facts, assumptions, calculations, authority, unresolved items, and professional judgments.
See how it works →Start with your clients.
Or start with a question.
Run a complete analysis for a client, or bring Navigator the planning question that is in front of you. The level of calculation support is always made clear.
Schedule C → S Corporation
Analyze entity conversion economics and implementation.
Reasonable Compensation
Develop an evidence-supported professional determination.
Navigator Guidance
Work through questions outside full modules without pretending unsupported capability exists.
Better analysis. Better advice.
Give your clients more than a tax return. Give them a plan — and preserve the professional reasoning behind it.
that shows its work.”