CCH Small Firm Services has combined three refund disbursement methods into a new program called 3Fund. 3Fund gives preparers an option of providing refunds to clients via a printed check, a prepaid MasterCard Debit Card or direct deposit.

More online retailers are collecting sales and use taxes as efforts growth at the federal and state level to impose the levies, according to CCH. The company's review of online nexus rules also noted that another factor is online retailers seeing such taxation as inevitable.

A federal court has permanently barred Luvander Hollaway of Newark, N.J. from preparing federal tax returns for others. Hollaway was acccused of falsifiying reported income and listing fake dependents so his customers could claim the maximum earned income tax credit. Hollaway consented to a civil injunction order.