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A UBS banking client who pleaded guilty to concealing $6.1 million in secret Swiss bank accounts has been sentenced to five years’ probation, even as the whistleblower who helped expose the UBS tax evasion scheme is set to begin a prison term Friday.

The Internal Revenue Service said new user fees now apply to exemption applications for tax-exempt organizations, ruling requests and other matters for 2010.

Publishing software provider Quark has introduced a new Web-to-print service for small businesses, including accounting practices.

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson said the IRS needs to do better than answering only 71 percent of the calls it receives from taxpayers, and it should stop filing tax liens against people who don’t have the ability to pay.

California accounting firms Macias Gini & O’Connell and Bernstein, Fox, Whitman, Goldman & Baumblatt LLP have combined forces.

San Diego wealth management firm Rowling, Dold & Associates has joined Moss Adams Wealth Advisors, the wealth management division of accounting firm Moss Adams.

The Kansas Department of Revenue warned that it may take up to 16 weeks to process state tax returns filed on paper as the state copes with budget cuts.

Payroll giant ADP has agreed to buy DO2 Technologies, a Calgary, Alberta-based company that provides electronic invoicing software.

H&R Block has agreed to repay between $11.4 million and $19.4 million to settle a lawsuit brought by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo over the tax prep chain’s marketing of high-fee individual retirement accounts to customers.

LECG shareholders have approved the consulting firm’s merger with Smart Business Advisory & Consulting along with a related proposal for LECG to receive a $25 million cash investment from Smart’s majority shareholder, Great Hill Partners.