A preparer who operated a tax business in Kansas City, Kan., has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Alfred Reece, 58, a former resident of Overland Park, Kan., has also been ordered to pay $648,442 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.

Bloomberg Tax is in the middle of a series of eight webinars under the name, the "Implications of the 2017 Tax Act. Six of the webinars remain in the series which designed to examine issues of which tax professionals should be aware.

The Internal Revenue Service has appointed seven new members to the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council. The council is an organized public forum for IRS officials and public representatives to discuss issues in tax administration.