A Kissimmee, Fla.-based tax preparer has been ordered to pay $1.6 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. Joseph Amaya was sentenced to pay the amount and sentenced to a year in federal prison for aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns.

Cherry Bekaert has hired Robert Misch as director of the firm’s digital advisory practice. He will lead the Digital Transformation Services (DTS) service line, which includes strategy and enablement, infrastructure, business optimization and transactional related digital services.

Altruic Advisors, an accounting firm specializing in nonprofit clients, has promoted Sarah Taylor to partner. Taylor, who joined the firm in 2017, became accounting services manager in 2018.