The most recently tax filing statistics appear to show what observers were saying—taxpayers were waiting later in the season to file. The number of returns filed for the season through April 8 were 2.4-percent higher than the 2021 season through April 9.

 AbacusNext has launched  APX Advanced Payment Processing for customers its legal and accounting practice management applications. Those include users of the OfficeTools suite for tax and accounting firms.

 A Florida tax prepaper, who was barred from preparing tax returns along with two of his children in 2017, has been sentenced to 97 months in prison for tax preparation fraud. Pickett was convicted on 22 counts of aiding and assisting the preparation of false tax returns and als ordered to pay about $169,639 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.