If you are hosting your Tax Balance Server yourself, these are the minimum requirements.
Operating System
Tax Balance Server can be hosted on either:
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Tax Balance Server will run on client/desktop versions of Windows, such as Windows 7 and Windows 10. This can be an easy way to trial Tax Balance Server; however, we do not support Tax Balance Server for production workloads unless it is hosted on a server operating system.
SQL Server Database
Tax Balance works with a wide range of versions and editions of SQL Server, from a local SQL Server Express instance, all the way to an Enterprise Edition SQL Server Failover Cluster or SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group, or even one of the hosted database-as-a-service offerings.
The following versions of SQL Server Database are supported:
Tax Balance | Minimum SQL Server version | Azure SQL |
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2022.0.0 → 2024.0.0 | SQL Server 2016+ | Supported |
2024.0.0 → latest | SQL Server 2019+ | Supported |
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Tax Balance Server is a .NET application distributed without the .NET runtime.
Tax Balance 2223.02 and later requires ASPruns on .NET Core Runtime 6.07.0. However, the deployment is self-contained and therefore the runtime environment does not need to be installed anymore.
Tax Balance 2324.20 and later runs on .NET 78.0. However, the deployment is self-contained and therefore the runtime environment does not need to be installed anymore.
Supported Browsers
The Tax Balance Server includes the Tax Balance Web Portal user interface, and we try to keep this as stable as possible:
Tax Balance only supports these browsers:
Edge
Chrome
Firefox
The WebSocket Protocol must be enabled.
Hardware requirements
The size of your Tax Balance instance will be dependent on the number of users and concurrent tasks. A task includes (but not limited to):
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Small companies or customers with 5-10 concurrent tasks:
1 Tax Balance Server: 2 Cores / 4 GB of RAM
SQL Server Express: 2 Cores / 4 GB of RAM or Azure SQL with 25-50 DTUs
Small-Medium companies or customers doing with 5-20 concurrent tasks:
1 Tax Balance Server: 2 Cores / 4 GB of RAM each
SQL Server Standard or Enterprise: 2 Cores / 8 GB of RAM or Azure SQL with 50-100 DTUs
Large companies doing 20+ concurrent tasks:
1 Tax Balance Servers: 4 Cores / 8 GB of RAM
SQL Server Standard or Enterprise: 4 Cores / 16 GB of RAM or Azure SQL with 200+ DTUs
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These suggestions are a baseline. Monitor your Tax Balance Server and SQL Server performance on all resources including CPU, memory, disk, and network, and increase resources when needed. |