The 2021 tax season is taking on a new character as efiles from paid preparers continue to grow over the year-ago period.  After being 7.6-percent ahead of the 2020-pace in the prior report from the Internal Revenue Service, the total for the period, ended May 7, 2021, was 10.6 percent over the period ended May 8, 2020.

Intuit expects that customer growth for TurboTax for the third quarter ended April 30 will be more than 70 percent higher than a year ago. The company also said that business for growth of QuickBooks Online in this country is above pre-pandemic levels.

Unused dependent care from tax years 2020 or 2021 can be carried over to tax year 2021 and 2022 without being considered as employee wages, the Internal Revenue Service said this week. The guidance in Notice 2021-26 PDF was issued under terms of the coronavirus-related legislation—the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020.