The End is Nigh

We’re helping you move from 2025 to 2026

It’s the end of 2025. But every ending is a new beginning. In this case, the beginning of the 2026 tax season! Yea!! I know you’re all very excited for this. This year, like the last 47 years we’ve been in business, we’ll do everything we can to help make it smooth.

Look for our emails

If you’re not receiving emails from us on a regular basis, check your spam folder and email support@cssisw.com with your preferred contact email. We recently mailed out the End of Year Preparation letter and a note to say Happy Thanksgiving. So, if you didn’t receive those, please let us know because we send all sorts of yummy goodness!

We got you

See our previous post about the new tax withholding rules that either went into retroactive effect this year or start in 2026. Your 401k plans and overtime are affected, but we’ve got it all under control, so you don’t have to worry about anything except having a Roth 401k set up to back up a traditional 401k offering. We’ll take care of the rest!

Let us take some stuff off your plate

Finally, please remember to sign up for any or all of the end-of-year services we’re offering. Specifically, we’ll submit your W-2s to the Social Security Administration, your 1099s (MISC and NEC) to the IRS. Starting last year, we’re offering to mail out the physical copies of the 1099s to your vendors. And newly added this year, we’ll submit your ACA 1095s to the AIR system. With the 10 form max requiring electronic submission, we highly encourage you to let us manage the headache of dealing with the three different submission portals. The only thing we’re not doing is handling the state level taxes.

We’ll send out a notice when the End of Year letter is ready, and we’ll have our update program to take care of the new tax tables for 2026. Around that time, we should also have the update for CSSI to process the changes for next year (W-2 reporting the overtime earnings and the Roth backup for 401ks) so you’ll be set to hit the ground running in 2026.

Holidays, taxes, and letters…Oh my!!

Tax season comes around again

Let’s get you prepared for the season!

It’s the end of the year and that means it’s time to get ready for presents, parties, and taxes. We can’t help with your social anxiety, but we’ve got all the details on how to navigate the tax part! We’ve got our holiday schedule, a program to update your tax tables that’s much easier to use than last year, and the annual letter with all the info you need to get ready for 2025 and knock out your reporting for 2024.

As usual, we’re uploading your W-2 and 1099 data to the IRS if you so desire. Remember that any company submitting more than 10 forms total has to submit ALL their forms electronically. Even if it’s 9 W-2s and 2 1099s, they all need to go electronically. We can do that for you if you just fill out this form, or the IRS has a site set up that lets you manually enter the 1099 or W-2 data.

This year we are taking a couple of days off:

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Some links that you will hopefully find helpful:

As always, we’re just phone call or email away to help with any questions, concerns, or problems that arise. Happy holidays!

Happy Thanksgiving

Here’s hoping you enjoy your time with family and friends this Thanksgiving! Even the crazy ones…

At CSSI, we’re so grateful to have such loyal customers many of whom have been with us for decades! We feel privileged to have been in business for nearly 50 years and we’re looking forward to helping construction companies run efficiently and easily for the next 50 years!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ditch the Reams

How CSSI can help you go paperless

At CSSI, we have always believed in the power of a paperless workplace. Since the late 1990s, we’ve been committed to reducing the dependency on physical documents and promoting a more efficient, sustainable approach to business operations. Our journey toward this vision has been ongoing, evolving alongside technological advancements and the changing needs of our clients.

One of the most significant steps in this journey has been our partnership with 1Mage, a company dedicated to developing solutions that minimize paper usage in the workplace. 1Mage’s platform is not just an add-on; it’s a core part of our ecosystem, seamlessly integrated into CSSI’s accounting and management software. This integration allows our clients to manage documents digitally, ensuring that they can access, store, and share vital information without the need for physical copies.

The 1Mage platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to streamline document management. From scanning and indexing to secure storage and retrieval, the system provides everything a business needs to transition away from paper-based processes. This integration ensures that all critical documents are available at your fingertips, whether you’re in the office or working remotely, enhancing both productivity and security.

By leveraging the 1Mage platform within our software, we empower businesses to significantly reduce their paper consumption, leading to lower costs and a smaller environmental footprint. Our commitment to a paperless workplace is not just about saving paper; it’s about fostering a culture of efficiency, sustainability, and forward-thinking in every aspect of our clients’ operations.

At CSSI, we are proud to offer solutions that help businesses transition into the digital age, making the paperless office not just a goal but a reality. Give us a shout to find out how we can help your workplace remove paper.

Payroll module update

Construction Systems Software is always trying to improve our product and to that end we’ve embarked on an overhaul of our user interface and data storage methods. We released version 7 which introduced a new menu system, easier user setting maintenance, favorites, and a shortcut to your user folder. This was our first step into a new UI and into using SQL to back our product.

With version 7.1, we take the next step by converting the Payroll system into the new interface and SQL. You’ll see faster reporting and a more intuitive interface but you won’t feel lost. We’ve kept everything right where you left it–we’ve just made it easier to use.

Toward the end of the month we’ll make a beta version available for our customers to test drive before a wider, full release at the end of the quarter. We’re excited to take this step and excited for the rest of the steps that are following!