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TaxAct: History & Companies

TaxAct Holdings, Inc. is an American tax preparation software company based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The company offers its own software package "TaxAct" to individual tax registers, companies and professional affiliates. The company was founded in 1998.

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TaxAct topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around TaxAct.

Related topics
10
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
13
Extracted relationships
27
Related term clusters
5
Bridge connections
13

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 8 topics
Overview · 1 topics
Product overview · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
1998; 28 years ago (1998) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
Founders
Lance Dunn · Cammie Greif · Jerry McConnell · Alan Sperfslage
Industry
Software
Owner
Cinven
Area served
United States, Canada
Formerly
2nd Story Software (1998-2013)

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Overview

History

Product overview

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How TaxAct connects Entity context

The extracted context around TaxAct shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, TaxAct → Alan Sperfslage, Boston, Cammie Greif, Inc, Jerry McConnell, Lance Dunn, Story Software, TA Associates, TaxAct Holdings Another extracted example is TaxAct → Alan Sperfslage, Cammie Greif, Jerry McConnell, Lance Dunn. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

TaxAct

Top relations

related to history · 9
TaxAct → Alan Sperfslage, Boston, Cammie Greif, Inc, Jerry McConnell, Lance Dunn, Story Software, TA Associates, TaxAct Holdings
Founders · 4
TaxAct → Alan Sperfslage, Cammie Greif, Jerry McConnell, Lance Dunn
related to overview · 4
TaxAct → Business Insider, In March, TaxAct Online Freelancer Edition, United States
Area served · 1
TaxAct → United States, Canada
Formerly · 1
TaxAct → 2nd Story Software (1998-2013)
Founded · 1
TaxAct → 1998; 28 years ago (1998) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
Industry · 1
TaxAct → Software
Key people · 1
TaxAct → Curtis Campbell (President)
Number of employees · 1
TaxAct → 300 (2021)
Owner · 1
TaxAct → Cinven

Important terminology

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Important terminology

software company tax inc holdings private founded 1998 cinven million preparation companies 2nd story cedar rapids iowa firm acquired based

TaxAct relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 27 structured relationships around TaxAct. Examples in this analysis include TaxAct → Area served → United States, Canada and TaxAct → Formerly → 2nd Story Software (1998-2013). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
TaxActArea servedUnited States, Canada1.00infobox
TaxActFormerly2nd Story Software (1998-2013)1.00infobox
TaxActFounded1998; 28 years ago (1998) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States1.00infobox
TaxActFoundersLance Dunn1.00infobox
TaxActFoundersCammie Greif1.00infobox
TaxActFoundersJerry McConnell1.00infobox
TaxActFoundersAlan Sperfslage1.00infobox
TaxActIndustrySoftware1.00infobox
TaxActKey peopleCurtis Campbell (President)1.00infobox
TaxActNumber of employees300 (2021)1.00infobox
TaxActOwnerCinven1.00infobox
TaxActTypePrivate1.00infobox
TaxActWebsitetaxact.com1.00infobox
TaxActis amember of the Free File Alliance0.90text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around TaxAct bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include October, United and Website. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • curtis campbell
    • Campbell
    • Curtis
    • President
    • Dunn
    • Greif
    • Jerry
    • Lance
    • Mcconnell
    • Sperfslage
    • Cedar
    • Formerly
    • Founded
  • cinven
    • Private
    • Dunn
    • Greif
    • Jerry
    • Lance
    • Mcconnell
    • Sperfslage
    • Curtis
    • Equity
    • Formerly
    • Founded
    • Iowa
  • tax preparation
    • Preparation
    • Tax
    • Software
    • Individual
    • Offers
    • Taxact
    • Companies
    • Based
    • Cedar
    • Iowa
    • Rapids
    • States
  • TaxAct
    • October
    • United
    • Website
    • Firm
    • Million
    • Equity
    • Acquired
  • taxact
    • October
    • United
    • Website
    • Firm
    • Million
    • Equity
    • Acquired

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For TaxAct, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects TaxAct with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
TaxAct — History · splits 5 ⟂ 9

Map overview Semantic statistics

TaxAct

Nodes14
Edges13
Triples27
Avg. degree1.86
Density0.142857
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around TaxAct to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — TaxAct · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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