A Florida tax prepaper, who was barred from preparing tax returns along with two of his children in 2017, has been sentenced to 97 months in prison for tax preparation fraud. Pickett was convicted on 22 counts of aiding and assisting the preparation of false tax returns and als ordered to pay about $169,639 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.

Sales tax vendor Avalara has laid out its plans for Crush Global, its annual conference. The free virtual conference, the company's sixth annaul event, will be held May 17 and 18, the company said this week as it opened registration

 A very different kind of tax season stayed that way as efile totals from paid preparers moved ahead of the 2021 season again and total returns stayed down. In a return to a season with a deadline in the traditional time, the season itself has not shown traditional patterns.