For some time, tax research has been largely about adding new titles to platforms. But in the last two years, the pace has picked up as technology and regulatory change have coincided to accelerate the rate at which new products are introduced. Those events are the simultaneous processes of the move to mobile devices and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

A tax preparer based in Durham, N.C., has been given a 70-month term in a federal prison for falsifying tax returns and stealing identities. Leslie Louise Brewster drew the term after pleading guilty to three felonies. She was also order to pay $92,910 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.

The National Society of Accountants has elected Steven J. Hanson, CPA, EA, of Cokato, Minn., as its president for 2013-2014. Hanson, a founding partner of Piehl, Hanson, Beckman, served as first vice president prior to the recent elections at the NSA's 68th Annual Meeting.