Wolters Kluwer CCH Small Firm Services has been named as one of the Top 50 medium-sized call centers in North America. The award was the second consecutive received by the Kennesaw, Ga.-based organization. The award was part of the 2015 Top 100 Call Center awards made by BenchmarkPortal, a research and educational organization for customer contact best practices.

Among publicly held companies in the tax business, everyone had a so-so-tax season, except for Intuit. The last companies to report results for the 2015 tax season were Liberty Tax Service, which said the number of returns prepared by its offices were up .6 percent, over the prior year, and Blucora's Tax Act, whose total returns were flat. That came as the Affordable Care Act failed to drive customers to paid preparers in any numbers.

Two Miami, Fla.-area preparers have been indicted on charges they used first-time homebuyer credits to swindle the government. The separate indictments charge Noe Mompoint of Southwest Ranches, Florida, was charged with 14 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false federal income tax returns. Lucvens Francois, of Aventura, Fla., faces 19 counts on the same charge.