The Problem
Tax compliance
is breaking
Demand is rising. The professional supply is collapsing.
The math no longer works.
The People
Tax professionals have left the field since 2020. 75% of the ones still practicing are nearing retirement. The pipeline of new CPAs is at a 17-year low. The profession isn't shrinking — it's collapsing.
The professionals are disappearing
−17% accountants since 2020 75% nearing retirement
Over 300,000 accountants have left the field since 2020. 75% of practicing CPAs are nearing retirement age. CPA exam candidates are at a 17-year low. In 2025, 12% of firms had to drop tax clients entirely — not because they didn't want the work, but because they couldn't staff it.
The Cost
The annual cost of U.S. tax compliance: $148 billion out of pocket and 7.1 billion hours of lost productivity. Every year. Paid by preparers, clients and families who deserve better.
The burden falls on everyone
$464B annual compliance burden 7.1B hours lost
Hours that belong to advisors, to clients, to families. Hours spent on work that has nothing to do with expertise and everything to do with outdated infrastructure. Every dollar and every hour spent on compliance is one not spent building something that matters.
The Tools
The average time to complete a single individual tax return using today's tools. 21 hours for a business return. Most of that time is manual data entry into software built before the internet existed.
The state of the art is 1986
13 hrs average per individual return 21 hrs for a business return
The software running the global tax industry today was built before the internet existed. Every number manually entered. Every form manually checked. Every case processed the same way it was processed forty years ago.
For 25 years, the most skilled tax professionals in the world have been forced to work with software that doesn't deserve them. Spending the majority of their billable hours on work that adds no value to their clients and no meaning to their careers. TAXDAVA was built because that is no longer acceptable — and because the technology to fix it finally exists.