A CPA based in Dayton, Ohio, faces a maximum of six years in prison for preparing tax returns for the business people associated with the Cadillac Ranch restaurants that failed to report income. Larry Couchot faces three years and $250,000 in fines on each of two charges of preparing false individual tax returns.

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The failure to go after fraud in the tax software arena is a big part of gains by the do-it-yourself preparation business, H&R Block CEO Bill Cobb said in a recent earnings webcast. In reporting the tax store chains’ results for fiscal 2014, Cobb said that this year’s growth in D-I-Y filing came because the effort to prevent fraud involving the Earned Income Tax Credit is different for assisted returns.