The paid preparer due diligence requirement has been expanded to taxpayers claiming head of household filing status by the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service. The requirement applies starting with 2018 individual returns prepared on or after November 7.

Jon Baron is leaving Thomson Reuters after leading its professional tax business since January 2006. He made the announcement of his December departure in his keynote at the company’s Synergy conference this week. He is being replaced by Charlotte Rushton who was named president of tax professionals in July.

Intuit has added Client Overview, to QuickBooks Online for Accountants. Debuted at the company’s QuickBooks Connect conference this week, the feature enables accountants to access a prospec'ts QBO account from the Overview tab inside QBO. This is visible to accountants only.