Automatic Data Processing has enhanced its Accountant Connect portal with new analytical tools to use with pay data available via ADP Cloud. It has also added features to its Client Insights dashboards.

Intuit has launched Intuit Ventures, a venture capital program. The maker of TurboTax and QuickBooks said this week, the program will primarily invest in series B- and C-stage companies.

 Two Florida tax preparers have pleaded guilty to filing bogus income tax returns that cost the government slightly less than $2.9 million in fraudulent refunds.. Nikency Alexis and Thony Guillaume entered the pleas to charge of conspiring to defraud the United States and preparing false tax returns.