A notice of the site states that "The groups responsible for maintaining the content on this website are no longer able to provide the required maintenance and updates necessary to maintain the website's on-going integrity." It was supposed to close on June 1, although posts were made on June 5, but there have been none since.

One of the groups was Intuit. A spokesperson confirmed, "we are no longer able to support the needs the site requires in terms of answering questions and keeping the site updated."

Intuit designed TaxAlmanac and it was set up to operate without any prominent identification with Intuit, which chose to give the website a .org status. One of the few times Intuit's name appears is in giving the mailing address for Intuit-Tax Almanac in Plano, Texas. However, in the early days Intuit was very proud of its involvement and a Wikipedia article about Intuit noted the site had quickly drawn national press coverage in the months after its launch.

TaxAlmanac maintained statistics for the number of conversations in its forum. Overall, there were 27,000 in the last report with 24,000 of these in tax. An information page, apparently from the early days of the service, says there were 70 Intuit employees working on it.

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Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards.  Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He  has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that.  A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind