Paychex has appointed Sanjay Hiranandani as VP of information technology operations. He was most recently SVP and chief technology officer of the former PAETEC Holding Corp., which was acquired earlier this month by Windstream. He reports to Michael Gioja, SVP of IT, product management and development, who was promoted to his position in July.

A New Jersey tax preparer has been permanently barred from preparing federal tax returns for others. Carmen Gonzalez was barred this week as the result of a civil injunction issued in a federal court. Gonzalez consented to the action without admitting wrongdoing. Read more...

CCH has enhanced its Partner Program for VARs that handle the company's CorpSystem sales-and-use tax software, adding a new designation of preferred VARs.These value-added resellers get different benefits than resellers at the basic level. The company says there are "more options from the entire portfolio of CCH indirect tax solutions". Read more...