Prices for users of QuickBooks Payroll will increase on October 1. The changes, announced this month by Intuit, go along with similar increases for prices to QuickBooks Desktop as the company pushes its online versions.

  Laide M. Paulino, a Freeland, Pa.-based tax preparer, has agreed to pay the Internal Revenue Service $888,377 in restitution. Paulino, owner of LP Multiservice, agreed to that step as a part of a guilty plea to preparing and filing false tax returns/

 BDO USA plans to establish an Employee Stock Ownership Plan and the accounting firm said this week that it will be one of the largest ESOPs in the country when it becomes effective at the end of this month.