Bookkeeper, Accountant & Tax Pro Season Watch

Track the business of tax and bookkeeping practice in the United States. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: IRS PTIN, AFSP, EA, e-file, EFIN and preparer rule and fee changes; price and feature changes at Intuit ProConnect, Lacerte and ProSeries, Drake, UltraTax, CCH Axcess and ATX, TaxAct Pro and TaxSlayer Pro; IRS e-services, transcript, IRIS and MeF system changes and outages over two hours; EA exam and continuing education rule changes; state preparer registration and licensing changes; price and feature changes at QuickBooks, Xero, FreshBooks, Wave and Zoho; beneficial ownership and state annual report deadline changes; federal and state deadline extensions and disaster relief by area; preparer penalty rule changes and enforcement actions; and tax season staffing and hiring data. Prefer the IRS, state revenue departments and boards, vendor pricing pages and release notes, FinCEN, NAEA, AICPA and established accounting reporting; ignore vendor marketing. Put the agency, vendor or deadline first in the title with the number or date. Use high severity for a system outage within 7 days of a deadline, a software price increase of 15 percent or more, a disaster extension affecting a metro, or a preparer rule change with a compliance date. Return no more than 6 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what changed, who it affects, what to do, the date, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.