The Minnesota Department of Revenue has warned state taxpayers not to use any of Intuit's tax products for filing returns. The statement issued this weekend applied to paper and efiled returns and covers Intuit's TurboTax, Intuit Online, Lacerte and ProSeries software packages because of issues Intuit had discovered that could affect the accuracy of the returns.

A federal jury has convicted a Baton Rouge, La., tax preparer of fraud and failing to report hundreds of thousands of dollars of her own income on tax returns. Angela Myers, who operated Angie's Tax Service, was found guilty of wire fraud, making false claims, subscribing to false tax returns and aggravated identity theft. Many of her victims were patients confined to a nursing home.

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The delay in accepting tax returns by the Internal Revenue Service took a big bite out of financial results for H&R Block for the third quarter ended January 31. The better news was that while revenue dipped by 29.1 percent for the most recently ended period, the number of tax returns received by tax services chain were down only 5 percent for the tax season through February 28, compared to last year. Block says those results are consistent with the rest of the industry.

QuickBooks Online for iPad guides users through setup and customizing and sending a sample invoice, a common task in QuickBooks. Users can download customer information from Contacts, Gmail, Yahoo or LinkedIn, and customer pictures from Facebook. Signing up requires only a username and password.