Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting has been grappling with outages affecting its CCH website and software products. The problems began May 6 and were lasting through May 7 as a result of a malware attack.

The number of returns filed for the tax season through April 19 was up .2 percent over the year through April 20, 2018. The statistical report from the Internal Revenue Service, which encompassed this year’s filing deadline, showed that all growth stemmed from self-prepared returns.

ADP is introducing a new tax engine that it says will make real-time information more readily available to its customers. The company describes the Next-Generation Tax Engine as “a foundational backbone of the company's tax compliance products.”