The 2021 Virtual IRS Nationwide Tax Forums will begin on July 20, the Internal Revenue Service announced this week. The events will be held every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for five weeks.

A CPA, who is the president of a Charlotte, N.C., high school booster club and his wife have been accused of stealing $200,000 from the group. The CPA, Anthony Sharper, has  also been indicted for allegedly fraudulently obtaining $236,000 in PPP loans to cover up the theft.

The number of income tax returns received by the Internal Revenue Service jumped ahead of 2020 totals by 4.5 percent for the most recently reported period. That came as efiles submitted by tax professionals soared ahead of last year by 17.5 percent in a report that covered all by the last three days of this year’s  filing season.