The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday evening that it recently identified and halted an automated attack upon its Electronic Filing PIN application on IRS.gov.

Xero announced an integration with Microsoft Power BI that enables customers to access and analyze information from Xero and other sources in Microsoft Office 365.

Nonprofit accounting software developer Aplos has raised $4 million in a Series A round of funding from San Joaquin Capital, a new venture capital firm that specializes in financing technology companies in California’s Central Valley.

Incisive Software Corporation launched a new API for its spreadsheet management technology that provides a comprehensive view of all spreadsheets across an organization and in various systems.

The Internal Revenue Service still hasn’t said what caused some of its systems to shut down last Wednesday, but the agency’s processing functions—including e-filing—were restored by last Thursday evening.

Tax pros and their clients are putting themselves at risk, because e-mail is not secure.

Intacct announced an increase of new bookings in the company’s second fiscal quarter of 47 percent over the same period the year prior.

At least one state looks to fatten up on cookies, the bits of computer code that websites leave on computers and smartphones to track user data and to improve website experience, by claiming it establishes nexus for sales tax purposes.

The Internal Revenue Service’s new security measures this tax season to counter identity theft and tax fraud appear to be having little impact so far on criminals, according to a security expert who monitors the online chat rooms where fraudsters swap taxpayers’ sensitive personal and financial information.

The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday evening its tax-processing systems have suffered a hardware failure and that tax processing could be affected into Thursday.

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Sage North America announced the release of Sage 50c, accounting software that combines the familiarity of the desktop-based solution with the anywhere, anytime access to data of a cloud-based solution.

Taxpayers are increasingly aware of identity theft-related tax fraud this year and are concerned about becoming victims, according to a new survey.

Receipt Bank announced it has raised $10 million in growth capital from international growth equity firm Kennet Partners.

Thomson Reuters has released ONESOURCE Indirect Tax Integration for Microsoft Dynamics AX, connecting the company’s sales tax and VAT software with Microsoft’s enterprise accounting product.

Avalara introduced Avalara LandedCost for small and mid-market ecommerce merchants to determine in real-time the duties, taxes, cost of goods sold, and shipping costs for global commerce transactions.

Intuit announced that Death Wish Coffee Company, a small business coffee roaster, won the Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Big Game contest.

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Tax preparation software provider TaxSlayer detected suspicious activity on its servers about a week after another tax software developer, TaxAct, was attacked by identity thieves.