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Tax season in review

The Juno platform, one tax season later

A tour of what shipped to your account between October 2025 and June 2026, by product area.

You spent the 2026 busy season prepping returns. We spent it building. Most of what you reached for in March was not in Juno last summer.

24
releases
8
new forms supported
6
new integrations
3
brand-new product capabilities

Juno preps 1120s, 1120-S, and 1065s alongside individual returns now. The Binder generates automatically from your uploaded docs and runs on keyboard shortcuts. Reviewer flags fewer things, with more confidence behind each one. 5 new individual-side forms now extract source-to-return across Drake, Lacerte, ProConnect, CCH Axcess, and more. New integrations landed across tax software, K-1s, accounting, and hosting. Canopy and Karbon are next.

About 24 releases between last fall and this week. The list below organizes the season by product area, so you can see what changed in the parts of Juno you actually use.

Juno Product Tour - Business Returns (1)
Business returns

Big move

Business returns

3 forms now in every account

Announced in April and opened to every Juno firm at the end of May. Forms 1120, 1120-S, and 1065 are now in every account, no upgrade step.

How it works

  • Connect QuickBooks or Xero once. Juno pulls the P&L and balance sheet directly.
  • Pull source docs straight from your TaxDome client folders into the return.
  • P&L categories auto-map to tax return categories with deduction rules baked in.
  • The workpaper generates itself. Every number ties from source to field to return.
  • Every time you reclassify a line or adjust an amount, Juno drafts the journal entry.
  • Reviewer reads the whole return and surfaces what to look at twice.

"I'd been waiting for exactly this."

Quote from a beta firm. Another firm filed 6 business returns in their first week. A larger firm is planning 4,000+ business returns through Juno this season.
Year in Review - Binder (1)
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New in December 2025

Binder

13 improvements shipped

The Binder launched on December 5, 2025: a structured workpaper binder generated automatically from your uploaded client docs, with tax-specific PDF markup, annotation, and team collaboration. We shipped improvements to it all the way through tax season.

What the Binder gained over the season

  • Keyboard shortcuts across the full set, surfaced inside the toolbar on hover.
  • Customizable sign-off levels from 1 to 6, set in Org Settings.
  • Undo with Cmd+Z or Ctrl+Z for placements, moves, and deletions.
  • Sign-offs render in front of the page title in the document tree, visible at a glance without scrolling.
  • Show or hide empty folders.
  • A movable, resizable calculator with calculator-style and equation-style number entry.
  • Binder order updated to follow tax-return order.
  • Auto-progress after sign-off. Sign off on a page, Juno moves you to the next step.
  • Page rotation for landscape K-1s, sideways scans, and upside-down uploads, right inside the Binder.
  • Redesigned drag-and-drop in the document tree. Selection groups clearly. Target folders highlight on hover.
  • Resizable document tree.
  • Bulk delete.
  • Faster Binder performance across the board.
Year in Review - Reviewer
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Major upgrade in March

Reviewer

10 capabilities added

Reviewer became a better product this season, thanks to feedback from our community. In March, after a community thread told us the tool was over-flagging, we shipped a major update focused on confidence, including a review plan that gives you a summary of what's most important.

The upgraded Reviewer

  • A new review plan that shows you what's left to do when you open a return.
  • Higher-signal flagging. Fewer flags, more confidence behind each one.
  • The Reviewer you would actually open mid-return.

Capabilities that landed in Reviewer across the season

  • Year-over-Year summary generated inside Reviewer.
  • Source-to-Return analysis.
  • Gotcha Checks analysis improvements.
  • Reviewer Custom Checks, customizable per organization.
  • Reviewer-specific tutorial and dashboard UX upgrades.
  • Issuer name in the Year-over-Year Documents Analysis tab.
  • A separate workflow for Current Year Return, Prior Year Return, and Client docs.
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Forms and workflow

Preparer

8 new forms, source-to-return

Preparer picked up a steady set of upgrades across the season, in both what it covers and how it works.

Form coverage

8 new tax forms supported source-to-return.

Health

Form 1095-A

Health insurance marketplace. The most-requested form Juno had not added yet.

Gaming

Form W-2G

Gambling winnings.

Retirement

Form 5498

IRA contributions and rollovers, including back-door Roth conversions.

Health

Form 5498-SA

HSA contributions.

Education

Form 1099-Q

529-plan distributions.

Each one extracts source-to-return across Drake, Lacerte, ProConnect, CCH Axcess, and more.

3 new business return forms (see business returns section above): 1120 · 1120-S · 1065.

Plus better K-1 extraction across 1120-S and 1041, larger document handling, and general data validation improvements.

Workflow inside Preparer

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  • Duplicate doc flagging.
  • Upload date column. See exactly when each document landed.
  • Preparation Checklist replaced the static preparation PDF. Interactive checklist tied to the source doc, showing what got pushed and what still needs manual entry.
  • A final extraction step at the end of every preparation that lays out how many fields got pulled, how many documents got processed, and what's left for you to look at.
  • Assign preparations to a team member. Filter by assignee. Toggle to see only the work assigned to you.
  • 2025 became the default year for all new preparations, with 2025 form support across the tax software integrations.
  • Preparation navigation improvements throughout the season.
  • Improved processing capability for larger documents.
  • Improved document processing across upload, sort, and mapping.
  • Clearer mapping visibility and CSV previews where needed.
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New connections and deeper coverage

Integrations

6 new integrations, 2 coming soon

Juno added new integrations this season across tax software, K-1s, accounting, and hosting, and went meaningfully deeper inside the integrations that were already there.

New this season

cch-axcess

CCH Axcess

Went live in December as a new tax software integration. Client File Bulk Import supported on day one.

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K1x

Went live in January as an included integration for K-1 handling, with up to 25 K-1s per client at no additional cost this season.

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QuickBooks

Now powering business returns. Connect once, pull the P&L and balance sheet directly into the return.

xero (2)

Xero

Now powering business returns. Same direct pull, no exports or CSVs.

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TaxDome for business returns

Pull P&L and balance sheet straight from your TaxDome client folders into Juno business returns.

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Verito

Now an official Juno partner. If your firm runs its tax software in a Verito-hosted environment, Juno is right at home there.

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Canopy (coming soon)

Canopy-to-Juno will move source docs without downloads or re-uploads, and Juno will round-trip the workpaper back to your tax software.

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Karbon (coming soon)

Juno will pull source documents from Karbon work items, extract the data, build the workpaper, and push the verified data into your tax software.

Deeper inside the tax software you already use

Drake

Drake exports in <1 minute

  • New macros-based export released.
  • Most Drake exports now complete in under a minute on average.
  • Form matching revamp. Extracted fields land on the right Drake forms.
  • Greater reliability and speed.
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Auto-mapping that holds up

  • New auto-mapping released.
  • Extracted data lands in the right schedules and fields without manual mapping.
  • Less review at the export step. Fewer surprises after the push.
  • Live across Drake, Lacerte, ProConnect, CCH Axcess, and more.
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And more integration improvements

  • See exactly what got pushed, when, and by whom.
  • Tracking for already-exported forms.
  • Document preview and CSV previews inside the Integration App.
  • Mapping visibility before you push.
  • Expect this integrations list to keep getting longer, we're committed to working with tools you use
Year in Review - Advisor
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New capability in December

Advisor

Advisor became more capable across the season, with a major addition in December.

Advisory Presentations.

Generate client-ready slide decks straight from inside Advisor, so a planning conversation turns into a meeting deliverable without leaving Juno.

  • Performance enhancements for long chats, saved prompts, and Advisory Agents.
  • Shared chat history across Advisor and Assistant.
  • Updated prompt library.
  • Better processing time and reasoning on Advisory Agents.

People and education

Customer support and onboarding

Support

  • Live chat with Juno's support team of experienced tax professionals from 5 AM to 5 PM PST, 8 AM to 8 PM EST.
  • A self-serve chatbot available 24/7 inside the same chat bubble.
  • 50+ knowledge base articles at support.juno.tax.

Onboarding and education

Juno Bootcamp

Ran as a live 2-week course earlier this year, and is now available as an on-demand course inside Modern Tax Pros for anyone who wants to come up to speed at their own pace.

  • Clarified strengths, tips, and tools for new users inside the product.
  • Updated onboarding experience for new trial users.
  • Tutorial enhancements throughout.

From your feedback

You shaped a lot of this

A note on the list above: a lot of these releases trace back to a specific moment somewhere.

Take form coverage in Preparer. 5 new individual-side forms landed across the season, and every one of them had a name behind it.

1095-A was the most-requested form Juno had not added yet. An EA flagged it in the community. It is now live across Drake, Lacerte, ProConnect, CCH Axcess, and more.

The Binder upgrades came in the same way. Each of those started as somebody saying it should not be this hard. We agreed.

"We shipped more than we ever have, and so much of it started as a conversation in this community."

Grant Lacy, Juno's Head of Product, in his post-tax-season note in April.

What's next

Where this goes next

We are not going to tell you what is on the roadmap. We never have. The standard we hold ourselves to is the same one your firm holds itself to: shipping work that holds up.

Going deeper on Preparer.

More form coverage. Faster extraction. Better validation. Less re-keying, fewer manual touches, more confidence that what got pulled in is right.

Going deeper on integrations.

Juno started with the tax software you file with: Drake, Lacerte, ProConnect, and more. This season we added CCH Axcess, K1x, QuickBooks, Xero, TaxDome for business returns, and Verito. Canopy and Karbon are next. More on the way.

The bigger picture, the one we keep building toward: less of the grunt work, more time on the work that needs your judgment.

Keep telling us what is getting in the way. Modern Tax Pros is the best place for it, but our team is also in your inbox, your support chat, and your office hours.

The platform you are working with in June 2026 is genuinely a different platform than the one you signed up for.

The next season of Juno is yours to shape too.

Thank you for the time you spent in the threads, in the surveys, in office hours, and in support conversations.

The Juno team