Christopher Randell drew the term and will also have to pay restitution that is to be calculated later. Randell, who worked at Sunbelt Tax Services in Jackson, Miss., was convicted by a jury in November of conspiracy to defraud the United States and individual counts of preparing false tax returns.

Also convicted by the same jury were Adam Earnest, and James Klish, both convicted of conspiracy with Earnest also convicted for preparing false tax returns. The co-conspirators were accused of using a variety of techniques to inflate client tax refunds and preparing thousands of fraudulent returns.