Businesses of all sizes are encouraging remote work and many are curtailing business travel as everyone grapples with the impact of the coronavirus. Many are also trying to make things easier on employees if they get sick while many conferences are being postponed or canceled.

A Jacksonville, Fla.-based tax preparer faces 59 counts that stem from alleged tax return fraud over a four-year period. The preparer, Kenyan Shondre Scott, has been indicted on 55 counts of aiding and assisting others with the filing of false tax returns and four counts of filing false tax returns on his own behalf.

The number of returns received by the Internal Revenue Service is falling into a normal range. The agency reported that returns received through March 8 were up .1 percent over the 2019 season ended March 6.