A Florida tax preparer has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for fiing 745 returns in 19 states from 2015 to 2018. Damian Barrett of Homestead, Fla., filed the returns through his Florida-based tax preparation companies, Max Tax Experts and Winngate Tax Services.

The planned sale of Tax Refund Solutions of Republic Bank & Trust Company has fallen apart. The collapse of the deal was announced this month by the prospective purchaser, Green Dot Corp.

Patriot Software has introduced subaccounts in the chart of accounts for its Accounting Premium application. This was one of a series of updates the company announced this week to its financial products.