TaxAct has launched TaxAct BizAdvance, which features online tools and information for starting, growing and managing a business. BizAdvance provides information via articles that are offered by partner companies that address the small business market and links to those companies—Biz2Credit, BluePay, MyCorporation and Webiquity.

XCM Solutions, which makes online workflow management software, has hired Sue Nolan as chief marketing officer, a new position for the Quincy, Mass.-based company. Nolan's career included eight years with CCH where she was VP of cross market solutions from March 2009 through May 2013.

A Lake Worth, Fla., man who was once part of the former LBS tax chain accused of systematically preparing phony returns, has been barred from preparing federal tax returns. Wilfrid Antoine agreed to a preliminary injunction to shutter his seven stores in Florida and to disgorge $100,000 after being accused of continuing the same business practices followed by LBS in targeting low-income customers.