Payroll Relief 2.0, designed to enable accountants to provide cloud-based payroll services, sports a new interface for both practitioners and clients that features info buttons and help buttons on each screen. A new Payroll Center can monitor each client's payroll including payrolls pending, tax due dates, auto e-filing.

Even with a deal in place to avoid a debt default by the united States, the PTIN renewal season has been delayed. The Internal Revenue Service had announced the delay prior to the agreement reached today by the U.S. Congress to end its arguing, at least for the moment, over the debt limit

Teresa Mackintosh has been named CEO of CCH Tax & Accounting U.S. A former executive with Thomson Reuters, Mackintosh joined the rival tax and accounting vendor in April 2012 and become EVP/GM, Software, CCH Tax & Accounting North America in January 2013. She was most recently president of CCH U.S. Software.