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

New tax breaks and new taxes for 2025 and 2026

The One Big, Beautiful Bill Act provides a tax deduction on overtime wages when employees file.

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

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!

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

Come join us in October for a view into the features CSSI has and where we’re going in the future. We’re adding features and updating our UI, all while keeping the same workflows you’re used to. Sign up here for individual classes or for the whole week to get a full day for free! During this week of online sessions, you’ll get to see how to use features to make your life easier, and you’ll get to see what we’re doing to improve the user experience in CSSI. We’ve got a new menu system, a new payroll interface, and some more features coming down the pipe that we’re very excited about. If you can’t make a live session, they’ll all be recorded and available to anyone who signs up. So don’t worry about scheduling; you can watch them at your leisure, and on your schedule. When you purchase the whole

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