The Internal Revenue Service is scheduled to return millions of dollars in fees paid by those who took the Registered Tax Return Preparer test. The IRS next week plans to mail checks of $116 each paid for the roughly 89,000 tests that were paid for and taken between November 2011 and January 2013. Some preparers took the test more than once.

The boom in subscribers for Intuit's QuickBooks Online shows no sign of slowing. The company this week reported there were 965,000 subscribers for the Internet-based accounting system on April 30 when the third quarter of the current fiscal year closed. It would take a major setback for the number to not pass 1 million in the July quarter.

ATX Advantage expands the ATX Total Tax Office software bundle to include compliance research and learning and practice management. Those features are added to a package of all federal and state 1040 and municipal forms and all business federal, state and specialty forms. Advantage also offers unlimited efile returns.