Weekly Tax Roundup

• American Lawyer, Ex-Kirkland Partner Sentenced to One Year For Tax Fraud
• Bloomberg Businessweek, Biggest Code Changes in 27 Years Mired in Split Congress
• Bloomberg Businessweek, BMC Software Loses Repatriation Case in U.S. Tax Court
• Bloomberg Businessweek, The IRS Hasn't Been Going After as Many Taxpayers as Before. Why?
• Columbia Journalism Review, How Billionaires Get Around the Estate Tax, by David Cay Johnston
• Financial Times, Accountants and Private Equity Face Tax Crackdown
• Forbes, In Reversal, IRS Gives Amnesty to Owners of Secret Israeli Bank Accounts, by Janet Novack
• Heritage Foundation, A Territorial Tax System Would Create Jobs and Raise Wages for U.S. Workers, by Curtis S. Dubay
• New York Times, The Two Wills of the Heiress Huguette Clark
• New York Times DealBook, A Night for Swiss Pride, Minus Tax Talk, by Lynnley Browning
• Open Secrets Blog, Koch Group's IRS Report Unlocks A Few Mysteries
• Procedurally Taxing, Remands and the Nature of CDP Hearings, by Leslie Book
• Reuters, IRS Tax Deductions: Businesses Catch a Break
• Reuters, U.S. Government Wades Back Into Municipal Arbitrage Rules
• Tax Analysts Blog, The Conundrum of Taxing Lots of Kids, by David Brunori
• Tax Analysts Blog, The Faltering Financial Transaction Tax and the Future of Wall Street, by Jeremy Scott
• Tax Analysts Blog, Mind the Gap, and Fund the IRS, by Christopher Bergin
• Tax Analysts Blog, Tax Avoidance Just Isn’t What It Used To Be, by Christopher Bergin
• U.S. Treasury Department, Myth vs. FATCA: The Truth About Treasury’s Effort To Combat Offshore Tax Evasion
• Wall Street Journal, Fixing a Twenty-Year-Old Tax Mistake 
• Wall Street Journal, Internet Sales Tax Debate Gets Rebooted in House
• Washington Post, New Bipartisan Bill Protects Groups That Don’t Support Same-Sex Marriage