Thomson Reuters has released a Checkpoint report about filing obligations for pass-through entities, The report, Top 5 Easy Ways to Identify and Comply With State Tax Filing Obligations for Pass-Through Entities, covers topics such as determining nexus and scenarios for non-resident withholding on pass-through entity income.

Sales-and-use tax vendor Avalara has hired Danny Fields, an Oracle veteran, as EVP of engineering and chief technology officer. He succeeds Peter Harodon, who left the Seattle, Wash.-based company in January

Crowe has named Justin Bass as the accounting firm's first chief data science officer. The Chicago-based accounting firm (known as Crowe Horwarth until this week) also created a  data science business unit, which employs more than 20 data scientists.