RSM US has named E.J. Nedder as national tax leader effective September 1. He will serve as a member of RSM’s leadership team, reporting to CEO Joe Adams. He succeeds Jeff Johannesen, who recently became the firm’s chief strategy and innovation officer. 

The American Institute of CPAs is urging the Internal Revenue Service and department of Treasury simply its draft Form W-4 for 2019. The AICPA said the form should not request nonwage income, itemized and other deductions, tax credit and total pay of all lower-paying job.

Joe Harpaz, whose company brought web-based document management software to the accounting marketing, has left Thomson Reuters after 13 years. Harpaz has become COO and president of Modernizing Medicine.