If you are hosting your Tax Balance Server yourself, these are the minimum requirements.
Operating System
Tax Balance Server can be hosted on either:
A Microsoft Windows operating system
In a
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Linux container
Windows Server
Tax Balance Server can be hosted
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on Windows Server 2012 R2 or higher. We automatically test Tax Balance Server on the following versions of Windows Server:
Windows Server 2019
Windows desktop
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 Edition SQL Server Failover Cluster or 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 → latest | SQL Server 2016+ | Supported |
Supported editions:
Express (free)
Web
Datacenter
Standard
Enterprise
Microsoft Azure SQL Database
AWS RDS SQL Database
.NET
Tax Balance Server is a .NET application distributed without the .NET runtime.
Tax Balance 2022.0 and later requires ASP.NET Core Runtime 6.0
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):
Import data from files
Import data from other systems
Create report
Perform calculations, e.g. balance sheet
Perform bulk operations, e.g. updating adjustments
Create E-Balance document
A good starting point is:
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. |