Tax Genie vs InfoTrack AML for Accountants 2026

Choose Tax Genie over InfoTrack AML when you want client checks inside onboarding, with automatic chasing and details sent to your tax software. Choose InfoTrack’s AML/CTF Compliance Centre when firm program administration, staff training and regulatory reporting drive your decision.

The Choice Between Compliance and Client Work

Tax Genie suits a practice losing time to incomplete forms, separate identity checks and typing client details again. Guided questions collect the right information for each person and entity. Rules and AI review the answers, and Tax Genie sends fixable issues back to the client automatically.

Identity verification and AML/CTF checks run in the same request as the engagement letter. Approved details then go into your tax software and Xero Practice Manager. Tax Genie also manages Division 7A loans, schedules and agreements for client groups.

InfoTrack’s Compliance Centre suits a practice organising its AML/CTF framework alongside client due diligence. Its published scope extends from firm risk assessment and policy work to staff onboarding, training and reporting to AUSTRAC. Its client checks overlap with Tax Genie’s, so the choice depends on the work you want connected.

A practice could use Tax Genie for client requests and keep the Compliance Centre for firm governance and reporting. Give each record a clear home and avoid ordering the same checks twice. Staff would manage any transfer of records between them.

What the Compliance Centre Covers

InfoTrack describes the Compliance Centre as a place for designated-service professionals, including accountants, to organise their firm and customer compliance work. Its product page lists guided firm risk assessment, program and policy work, personnel due diligence and training modules with progress tracking.

For clients, InfoTrack describes risk-based forms, verification bundles and generated risk reports. Its reporting functions include suspicious matter and threshold transaction reports, plus annual compliance reporting to AUSTRAC. These are published product functions. Your practice’s reporting obligations follow the services and circumstances involved.

Keep the Compliance Centre distinct from InfoTrack’s wider business. Company extracts and entity searches supply information about a client. They are inputs to due diligence, while the Compliance Centre organises the assessment and resulting records. Buying an extract alone does not perform the whole assessment.

Client Checks Side by Side

Both products handle identity and AML/CTF checks for client onboarding. Compare them against the same people and entities, with the same screening needs.

The following fictional cases illustrate their documented functions. One client is an individual receiving a designated service. The other is a company with an instructing director and a separate beneficial owner.

Work in either case	Tax Genie	InfoTrack AML/CTF Compliance Centre
Individual identity	Online document and selfie check, or certified documents for staff review	Digital verification of identity within its AML Onboarding & VOI package
Company and beneficial owner	Identifies the people acting for an entity and its beneficial owners	Its entity onboarding covers business information, entity verification and ultimate beneficial owners
Screening	PEP, sanctions, Australian background and adverse media checks	PEP, sanctions and adverse media screening within selected bundles
Risk assessment	Staff record Low, Medium or High risk, reasons and sign-off	Generates a customer risk report and rating, with escalation prompts
Review record	Assessment PDF, risk register and next review date	Consolidated AML report with client information and risk ratings
Staff responsibility	Staff record identity and risk determinations	Staff review the generated reports and act on escalation prompts

For the individual, Tax Genie connects the check with the client’s form and signed engagement letter. InfoTrack’s package connects the client’s answers and verification results with a consolidated AML report.

For the company, the director and beneficial owner are separate people to assess. InfoTrack’s entity guidance describes collecting ownership information and checking the relevant people. Tax Genie keeps each person’s assigned items in the request and records the practice’s risk determination.

Neither fictional case assumes a screening result. A possible match needs a staff decision about the actual person and information involved. An ABN format or register check answers a different question from identity verification.

From Client Answers to Engagement

Tax Genie takes the client’s answers through correction, engagement-letter signing and handover to your tax software. This is its strongest reason to choose it for an Australian practice’s daily onboarding work.

The form follows the client’s entity type and checks details as they type. A valid ABN is checked against the Australian Business Register. After submission, rules check register matches, consistency and missing documents. AI then reviews common client mistakes, with every TFN removed first.

Tax Genie emails the client a list of fixes and reopens only the affected sections. Automatic email and SMS reminders chase what remains outstanding. Staff receive the corrected form without writing each follow-up themselves.

The answers populate an engagement letter that staff review and send for online signing. Approved client details go into your tax software. Xero Practice Manager records receive a field-by-field review before updates, and Tax Genie creates jobs and files completed documents to supported document systems.

InfoTrack’s AML Onboarding & VOI page describes a secure client portal and forms that adapt to risk. The resulting customer risk report and consolidated AML report support the compliance review. That explains its client-facing role alongside the Compliance Centre’s firm administration.

Where a practice uses both products, decide which one collects each answer and which record staff consult before accepting the engagement. A shared client name does not establish an automatic connection between the products. For a broader choice of tools, compare the onboarding software shortlist.

Firm Records and Ongoing Reviews

InfoTrack’s documented firm administration is the stronger reason to choose the Compliance Centre when your main job is maintaining the firm’s AML/CTF framework. Its help guide separates compliance officer responsibilities from client-facing staff access. Client-facing staff can view firm policies and risk assessments and complete assigned training.

That distinction affects who maintains the records. A staff member seeing an empty policy area might be waiting for the compliance officer to complete or upload it. Assigned training modules and personnel due diligence support staff administration beyond an individual client file.

Tax Genie keeps client risk determinations in a risk register with next review dates and review notifications. Its compliance hub holds reference material and a staff training register. Item owners, due dates and internal notes help colleagues continue a client request without reconstructing its history.

Both support ongoing screening. InfoTrack’s cost breakdown lists ongoing PEP, sanctions and adverse media monitoring as a pay-per-use service. Tax Genie includes ongoing monitoring alongside its client checks. Screening alerts and scheduled reviews answer different needs: an alert prompts attention to a change, while a review revisits the client assessment.

Choose InfoTrack when guided firm assessment, training delivery and reporting are the deciding requirements. Choose Tax Genie when the risk record needs to stay with the client’s outstanding work, corrected answers and engagement.

Search Charges and the Final Choice

InfoTrack separates complimentary Compliance Centre access from charged searches and checks. Its published cost breakdown lists pay-per-use client onboarding and ongoing monitoring, with a separate staff-onboarding charge. Its AML Onboarding & VOI page describes fixed-price packages tailored to the checks required.

For a company engagement, compare the entity searches and people included in the package with the people your practice needs to assess. Include ongoing monitoring in that comparison. The wider InfoTrack pricing guide explains the distinction between platform access and search services.

Tax Genie includes generous usage, including identity and AML/CTF checks, in its price. It is the most affordable option on the market and saves significant time on onboarding, chasing clients and inputting information. Compare that combined work with the search-based cost of the InfoTrack services your practice uses.

Keep InfoTrack’s Compliance Centre if your priority is its firm compliance administration and reporting. For a practice replacing separate forms and manual handover, Tax Genie connects onboarding and checks with the details sent to your tax software. The Tax Genie comparisons cover other products by the work they handle.

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