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A federal judge in Kansas City, Mo., has permanently barred Allen R. Davison from promoting a variety of tax fraud schemes, including some that used sham companies, sham chicken-flock contracts, and sham pension plans.

Care to write off any Botox expenses? Intuit has come out with a set of the strangest tax deductions it’s seen this past tax season, including taxpayers who tried to write off the cost of Armani suits and a hired psychic.

Crowe Horwath has appointed a new board chair and trustees for its Crowe Foundation.

Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP was named a Best Company to Work For in New York State in an annual program sponsored by the New York State Society for Human Resource Management.

The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board has published its 2010 Handbook of International Public Sector Accounting Pronouncements.

Ernst & Young has joined the U.S. State Department’s new E-Mentor Corps program to provide mentorship to entrepreneurs around the world.

The Internal Revenue Service has selected four new members of its Advisory Committee on Tax-Exempt and Government Entities for the term starting in 2010 and ending in 2012.

Grant Thornton LLP has purchased the assets of Dallas-based information technology consulting and software firm Avalion Consulting LLC.

Accountants need to accept that Internet-based applications that can run everything they do in and out of the office are going to be the norm, and practitioners will be at a competitive disadvantage the longer they wait to embrace them, according to a speaker at the 2010 New Jersey Accounting, Business & Technology Show.

Accounting Today is in the midst of collecting submissions for its 2010 ranking of the Top Firms by AUM.