A Brooklyn, N.Y., preparer, who continued to file fake returns after her firm's Electronic Filing Identification Number was revoked, has been sentenced to three years in prison. Awilda Rosario, 40, drew the sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns.

Canopy has introduced a Transcripts feature that the company says takes most of the headaches out of acquiring taxpayer transcripts from the Internal Revenue Service and understanding them. The company, which offers several other services designed to deal with IRS issues, says Transcripts takes the IRS information and turns its complicated set of information and code into readable form.

MIP Fund Accounting from Abila has been added to the company's Elevate fundraising platform. This update integrates Elevate with hosted versions of the desktop-based fund accounting and cloud-based MIP Advance. Additional enhancements include bulk acknowledgements, consolidation of gift attributes, and improvements around Chart of Accounts importing.