Enhanced side-by-side form views have been added to TaxAct Professional. In outlining changes to 2018 software, the company said recently users will be able to compare all forms from the current and prior years side by side.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting has announced two deals for extending its CCH product line through other vendors. It said this week it has developed an integration between making CCH Axcess Financial Prep with Xero and will offer CPE courses through OpenSesame.

The Internal Revenue Service will stop its tax transcript faxing service as of February 4. The decision applies to business tax and individual tax transcripts. The IRS said it is another step in protecting data, which started with the IRS’ masking personally identifiable information on the transcription starting last September.