Tax preparers are receiving phishing emails purporting to originate from a tax software education provider in the United States. The Internal Revenue Service said recently the latest communication seeks a wide range of information, including e-Services logons and preparers' mothers' maiden names.

Cloud software vendors Aplos Software and Portalbuzz have merged. Operating under the Aplos name, the company will focus on developing front- and back-office products for nonprofit organizations.

J. Heffy Provost, EVO of Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting, North America, has left that company to take a position of CEO of AgData. Based in Charlotte, N.C., AgData provides data and analytical products to agricultural crop protection and animal health manufacturers.