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Intuit QuickBooks Desktop Pricing and Open AI Relationship – The Accounting Technology Lab Podcast – Dec. 2025

Accounting December 12, 2025 

Intuit QuickBooks Desktop Pricing and Open AI Relationship – The Accounting Technology Lab Podcast – Dec. 2025

In this episode of The Accounting Technology Lab, hosts Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley analyze Intuit’s recent announcements following Intuit Connect, focusing on major QuickBooks Desktop (QBD) price increases, and Intuit’s reported $100 million annual relationship with OpenAI. The Accounting Tech Lab is an ongoing series that explores the intersection of public accounting and technology.

Brian Tankersley, Randy Johnston

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February 20, 2022 

Tax Pros Being Targeted in New Phishing Scam

The latest phishing email uses the IRS logo and a variety of subject lines such as "Action Required: Your account has now been put on hold.” The IRS has observed similar bogus emails that claim to be from a “tax preparation application provider.”

Isaac M. O'Bannon

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February 20, 2022 

Update to IRS Form 14457 Expands Virtual Currency Reporting

The Internal Revenue Service has made revisions to Form 14457, Voluntary Disclosure Practice Preclearance Request and Application, including expanding a section on reporting virtual currency. Form 14457 permits taxpayers who may face criminal prosecution.

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February 20, 2022 

How to Reduce the Last-Minute Tax Season Crunch

Tax season has begun, and you have a lot on your plate. You're undoubtedly already stressed, and there's still a long way to go until April 15th. This time of year, you're undoubtedly anxious and fatigued. What are you going to do to prevent tumbling ...

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February 20, 2022 

IRS Offers Details on K-2 and K-3 Relief

Notice 2021-39 provides penalty relief for good-faith efforts to adopt the new schedules. Today’s transition relief, appearing in new frequently asked questions (FAQs) on Schedules K-2 and K-3, allows an additional exception for tax year 2021 filing ...

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February 20, 2022 

Tax Deadline is March 1 for Farmers and Fishermen

Farmers and fishers who decided to forgo making estimated tax payments have the option to pay the entire tax due on or before March 1. Normally, this special rule applies when income from farming or fishing made up at least 2/3 of the total gross ...

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February 18, 2022 

AICPA Urges Senate Finance Committee to Initiate IRS Relief Measures

During a hearing held by the Senate Finance Committee on Spotlighting IRS Customer Service Challenges, Tax Executive Committee (TEC) Chair for the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and practicing CPA, Jan Lewis, opened her testimony by letting the Senators know, “…I’m here today because there’s still time to salvage this filing season, or at least...…