Bookkeeper360 has been named Xero's Platinum Partner of the Year for New America. It was one of several awards made to accounting and bookkeeping firms by the New Zealand-based cloud software company. 

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.