Sales of the venerable UltraTax software was one of the factors in organic revenue growth of 9 percent form Thomson Reuter’s Tax & Accounting Professionals business for the second quarter ended June 30. The company also cited the performance of audit products and unit’s Latin American Business as factor.

 Indirect tax specialist Avalara is being acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $8.3 billion. At $93.50 per share, the all-cash deal is 27-percent higher than the closing share price on August 6.

Revenue for CCH Axcess will pass the amount of revenue for desktop tax and accounting products next year. Wolters Kluwer this week did not disclose the among of revenue for the cloud product but noted the cloud platform’s double-digit organic growth for the first half ended June 30.