Liberty Tax founder John Hewitt, fired as CEO in September, has begun a new business venture, Loyalty Brands. Hewitt hosted a Loyalty Brands Discovery Day on April 26 in Virginia Beach, Va., with the evite for the event providing little information about the new line of business.

The number of returns filed in the last week pushed tax season to where observers thought it would end. Statistics from the Internal Revenue Service for the season ended April 20 showed  the number of returns filed were up .9 percent over last year through April 21, 2017. Many expected results would be up by no amore than 1 percent.

NetSuite has signed BPM, an accounting firm centered in the San Francisco Bay area, as a member of its business processing outsourcing and reselling programs. That announcement came on the heels of reports of two CPA firms that are acquiring NetSuite resellers.