Ray Barlow, who  lead Sage's accountant program, has joined XCM Services of Quincy, Mass., as SVP. In his new position, he is responsible for Xpitax Accounting and Tax outsourcing services. Barlow was VP of accountant solutions at Sage from August 2015 through this month.

A scheme that caused the Internal Revenue Service to pay more than $9 million in undeserved refunds has netted a California prepare 120 months in prison. Pollock Pines, Calif.-based Teresa Marty, 57-years old, must also serve two years of supervised release and repay the IRS slightly more than $9.5 million. Marty and others pleaded guilty in a case in which they were identified as tax defiers.

The Department of Justice wants to shut down a Florida tax preparer, who it alleges had errors in nearly two thirds of the returns examined. The agency seeks to bar Lena Cotton of Wellington, Fla., and her business, Professional Accounting, from preparing federal returns for users and asks she be ordered to disgorge money made from preparing the returns.