Cloud software company Xero has launched Xero Central, a new support platform. Built on the Salesforce Community platform and powered by Coveo machine learning, Xero Central displays all cases posted by a particular us

A Minneapolis, Minn.-based tax preparer, who fled to South Africa to avoid sentencing on Aug. 18, 2016, was sentenced this week to 121 months in prison. Kenneth Mwase drew the sentence after pleading guilty in 2014 to one count of conspiracy to defraud the Government and one count of aggravated identity theft, and in November pleaded guilty to failure to appear.

The Internal Revenue Service expects the first refunds will got out to taxpayers next week with many paid by mid-to-late February as in past years. The agency made that statement as tax season opened this week and it works to return operations to normal following the government shutdown.