The Department of Justice is seeking to shut down a Detroit-based tax preparer, Crystal Ireland, and her business, Master Mind Preparation. In a civil suit, the department alleges that Ireland, who had been previously penalized by the Internal Revenue Service, falsified her clients' income in order to claim the maximum earned-income tax credit and seeks to bar her and the business from preparing income tax returns for others.

SPbinder, an electronic binder application from SurePrep, can be used to prepare, review and share a paperless set of workpapers for any engagement type. It expands SurePrep's binder technology to documents other than tax returns for the first time and enables firms to create binder templates for each type of engagement.