Nonprofit software vendor AccuFund has set dates for user group meeting. The Needham, Mass.-based company has set dates for the meetings between November 10 and December 2. The company says topics will include updates to AccuFund's current version, plans for the next version and year-end changes expected for this year.

The Internal Revenue Service has selected four collectors to implement the private collection of federal taxes next spring. The program is designed to handle accounts that the IRS is not actively working for a variety of reasons, including the fact they are older or because of because of a lack agency resources.

A Long Beach, Calif.-based tax preparer has pleaded guilty to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from group homes for teenage boys. In two separate cases, Gary Batchelor, 64, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of misappropriation of public funds and one felony count of filing a false tax return in his role, stemming from his role as an executive with the nonprofit group.