Fifteen thousand individuals have registered for the Sage Summit conference being held this week in Chicago. Those figures were provided in a tweet last week by Sage CEO Steve Kelly who said that many had signed up to attend and that another 15,000 have registered for remote attendance.

The Internal Revenue Service's plans for a "Future State" for how the agency will operate over the next few years may run into consumer resistance, according to the National Taxpayer Advocate. The Advocate's 2015 annual report to Congress suggests that resistance to technology may thwart development of online accounts.

A W-2 Verification Code test will be expanded to cover about 50 million forms in the next season, one of several steps formulated by the Security Summit. The Summit, which is comprised by the Internal Revenue Service, software companies and other leaders in the tax preparation industry, was formed last year to combat identity theft and released plans for 2017 this week.