The Department of Justice wants to shut down a Florida tax preparer, who it alleges had errors in nearly two thirds of the returns examined. The agency seeks to bar Lena Cotton of Wellington, Fla., and her business, Professional Accounting, from preparing federal returns for users and asks she be ordered to disgorge money made from preparing the returns.

A series to help organizations prepare for sweeping tax and regulatory policy changes has been launched by Bloomberg BNA and Grant Thornton. Called “The Future Ready Business: Washington Impact," the series combines BNA’s research and tax and legal news knowledge with the accounting firm’s business-advisory capabilities.

The decline in the number of returns received by the Internal Revenue Service this year led to a drop in income at Republic Bancorp for the first quarter ended March 31.