Black Ore Brings Big-Firm Tax Automation to CPA Firms as Customer Base Grows 5x

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Tax professionals e-filed 73.9 million individual returns in the 2026 filing season through April 24, about 53% of everything filed electronically according to IRS statistics, while first-time CPA exam candidates fell 33% between 2016 and 2021 and Black Ore counts more than 500,000 accountants leaving the profession over five years.

Black Ore, the Austin company behind the Tax Autopilot platform, launched Black Ore for Small Firms on October 27 at Intuit Connect in Las Vegas, a version of the software that the largest firms in the country have run in production for three tax seasons. It is priced per return with no enterprise contract and no five-figure minimum, firms can be live in less than a day and finished returns arrive directly inside Intuit ProConnect Tax and Lacerte. Black Ore's small and mid-sized firm customer base has grown more than fivefold since the start of 2026. The platform...

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