Sovos, which markets indirect tax software, has acquired 1099 Pro. Terms were not disclosed.

Vic.ai, which markets an AI-based payments platform, has received $50 million in Series B. Funding.  The latested round for the company, launched in 2015, brings the total funding raised to $63 million.

In a period in which the COVID-19 pandemic took big chunks out of many workers’ pay, named executives for Paychex did not fair badly for the year ended May 31. The smallest increase went to CEO Martin Mucci who had a 19.3-percent rise over fiscal 2020 while three others had increases that topped 34 percent.