A new search method from Thomson Reuters is designed to provide shortcuts to obtaining answer on commonly searched federal tax topics within Checkpoint. The new feature, Answer Path, simplifies such searches, according to Steve Mendelsohn, managing director of Knowledge Solutions at the company.

A federal court has barred Walner Gachette, the franchisor for the former LBS Tax Services chain, from preparing tax returns for others. A $5-million judgment was also entered against the man who ran the nation's fourth-largest tax store chain until it was shut down by federal action for pervasive fraud and charging some customers $999 for preparing an individual tax return.

Boulay, a Eden Prairie, Minn-based CPA firm, has received the Intelligence Award from software vendor Deltek. The 170-person firm received the honor at Deltek Insight 2016, the company's annual user conference as part of its Project Excellence Awards program.