Bill.com has hired Sheela Zemlin as SVP of sales and customer success. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, which makes invoicing products, said this week Zemlin has responsibility for all sales channels, including sales to small businesses and direct sales for mid-market businesses and accountants.

Two tax preparers and one of their clients, all from the Miami, Fla., area, have drawn sentences for a tax fraud scheme in which the preparers charged a fee of 30 percent of inflated refunds. The preparers Claudia Zuloaga, 43, and Sharon Elizabeth Angulo, 49, were each sentenced to five years in prison and each was ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution to the United States.

Avalara has acquired Hotspot Tax, which markets tax compliance products for the vacation rental industry. Terms were not disclosed. Hotspot will be operated under the name Avalara MyLodge and marks the continued movement of the Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based sales-and-use tax vendor into specialized tax markets.