An Alabama tax preparer has been indicted for allegedly using stolen identifications to prepare and file tax returns. The preparer, Teresa Floyd, has been charged with several counts of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The indictment also seeks a forfeiture of $320,397 by Floyd.

The Internal Revenue Service is moving a head with a voluntary program that it says is designed to encourage education "and filing season readiness for paid tax return preparers." The program is moving ahead in the face of opposition from the American Institute of CPAs which this month declared the program is not lawful.

The American Institute of CPAs has launched a new web site that it says is designed "to spark a profession-wide reevaluation of how CPAs engage in lifelong learning and measure competency in a fast-changing world." The establishment of the site comes as a task force report on the future of learning has been released.