A Heber City, Utah-based CPA has drawn a 78-month prison sentence for filing 18 fraudulent tax returns. CPA Dick Reid Jenkins must also pay $250,340 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service and serve three years of supervised release. He was convicted in June for 18 counts of filing false claims and one count of presenting a fictitious financial instrument to the United States.

Sales-and-use tax vendor, Avalara has acquired VATLive.com, an online service that provides tax news, analysis and rate changes. The Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based company said the move is important in its work to expand globally by supporting indirect tax needs in other countries. Avalara said it will maintain and develop the VATLive.com

PPC's Practice Aids for Audits of Real Estate covers audits of nonpublic entities engaged in developing, managing and owning real estate projects for their own use or for sale to others. This includes audits of real estate operators, real estate developers (including homebuilders) and retail land sales developers.