Vertex has named Mike Bernard, who had a 28-year career at Microsoft, as its chief tax officer. He will replace Peggi Rockefeller, who is retiring after working at the transaction tax software company since 2012.

QuickBooks Online Accountant can now support clients who don’t use QuickBooks. Intuit said this week the cloud-based applications enables accounting professionals to manage those customers within the product.

Total returns submitted this tax year are running ahead of the same period in 2017. However, statistics from the Internal Revenue Service report the number of refunds issued for the season through March 8 fell further behind a year ago through March 9, 2017, although that was only a slight change.