Avalara is testing a software application that will enable accounting firms to prepare and file sales and use tax returns for clients. The test was announced this week by CEO Scott McFarlane as the company reported the first quarterly financial results as a public company since going public in June.

The decline in the American dollar put a dent in an otherwise decent performance for Wolters Kluwer for the half ended June 30.  The company ended up with a 7-percent drop in revenue over last year’s corresponding period. However, revenue was up 1 percent in constant currencies and 4 percent organically, WK said this week.

A Yorktown, N.Y.-based tax preparer who agreed to dissolve his business in 2009 had been indicted on charges he failed to report the income from the sale of that operation. Steve Sabba, who pleaded guilty to filing a fraudulent New York Tax return in 2009, pleaded not guilty Monday to an eight-count indictment which alleges he engaged in a series of tax crimes from February 2012 through March 2018.