Xero has named new country managers for the United States and Canada. The New Zealand-based cloud software company this week said it had appointed Ben Richmond as the U.S. manager and Will Buckley to head Canada.

Ken Crutchfield, a veteran of the tax software industry, has switched fields as he has joined Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US as VP and general manager. He was most recently SVP of Bloomberg Tax Technology from June 2014 through last month.

Thresholds that determine when remote sellers are subject to sales tax will vanish, Avalara CEO Scott McFarlane predicted recently. McFarlane believes states which adopted economic nexus for taxing out-of-state sellers will follow Kansas’ lead in having no threshold for triggering such taxation.