Intuit has decided to sell its Intuit's Websites business, an operation that includes Homestead Technologies which Intuit acquired in 2007. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company has entered into a definitive agreement with Endurance International Group which will purchase the business terms were not disclosed.

A federal court has permanently barred a Kansas City, Kan.-based preparer, Ahferom Goitom, from preparing federal returns for others at an Instant Tax Service store. The Justice Department has five other ongoing legal actions against the chain in Indianapolis; Las Vegas; Chicago; and Dayton, seeking to shut down the four largest franchise owners as well as trying to shutter the corporate franchiser, ITS Financial.