Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting has acquired the assets of BSI, a provider of international tax, legal, business and investment information.

Kevin Robert

The acquisition will bolster Wolters Kluwer's continued expansion of global tax offerings for corporate market. BSI will become part of Wolters Kluwer’s CCH business.

BSI's professionals provide tax expertise in more than 114 countries, with updates based on new developments, delivering answers to queries from professionals across the world. More than 60,000 users rely on BSI's network of Web sites monitoring international tax developments.

“Keeping current with complex and changing tax law is a challenge faced by professionals today across the globe, and with the addition of BSI's premier content and coverage to CCH and Wolters Kluwer, we're now uniquely able to help our customers overcome that challenge,” said Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting CEO Kevin Robert in a statement. “The best just got better. And, we'll continue to invest in expanding our international corporate tax solutions to help professionals around the world.”

CCH will continue to deliver BSI's services under the CCH brand name and as part of the CCH Integrator service it launched in February. CCH Integrator delivers CCH's software and international content in one centralized system to streamline tax data collection, provision, research and compliance activity.