The American Institute of CPAs has called upon the Internal Revenue Service to action quickly to reassign staff to service centers. The IRS said recently it is considering that step to help alleviate the backlog in tax returns.

A tax preparer, who sent more than $300,000 to his native Cameroon, to pay for apartment building construction, has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for tax filing fraud. Jean Mpouli of Seattle, Wash., who was convicted of four counts of aiding and abetting the filing of false tax returns caused the government a tax loss of $3.5 million.

 AbacusNext, which makes practice management software, has named Keri Gohman, as CEO. Gohman spent three years as an executive with Xero, two of them as president of Xero North America.