Weekly Tax Roundup

• Acccounting Today, Former IRS Commissioner Concerned about IRS Shutdown
• Benzinga, Bitcoin Is Biggest Loser In Silk Road Meltdown---IRS Wins Big
• Citizens for Tax Justice, How Congress Can Fix the Problem of Tax-Dodging Corporate Mergers
• Citizens for Tax Justice, Stop the Presses: Apple Has Not Been Cleared on Tax Avoidance Charges
• The CPA Journal, Deductibility of MBA Education Expenses
• The Economist, Overtaxed and Over There: Loopy Tax Rules Spur Expats to Renounce Their American Citizenship
• Procedurally Taxing, Supreme Court: Woods Oral Argument This Week, by Leslie Book
• SCOTUSBlog, Oral Argument Analysis: Justices Focused on Jurisdictional Problem in Tax Penalties Dispute
• Tax Analysts Blog, After the Debt Limit Crisis, Can Democrats Be the Party of Big Business?, by Joseph J. Thorndike
• Tax Analysts Blog, The IRS Is Shut Down – And We Will All Pay, by Christopher Bergin
• Wall Street Journal:  New IRA Rules for Same-Sex Married Couples