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KPMG agrees deal with debt crowdfunding platform InvestDen [Accountancy Age]
Jean-Claude Juncker denies all involvement in LuxLeaks tax system [Telegraph]
Carried-Interest Tax Break Divides Again, After Trump Revives the Issue [NYT]
Ernst & Young Merges in Tax Law Firm Burt, Staples & Maner [AT]
Here's why one hedge fund manager thinks Alibaba could be a big fraud [Fortune]
The Four Keys to Getting Out of Unnecessary Meetings [Lifehacker]
Tax avoidance isn’t a cookbook [Tax Update]
Incoming TAP staff at EY (Diff pay for diff start date) [Open Items]
The Utah Supreme Court says you don’t have to take a bullet for your company [FOX13]
Focus Media Chief Financial Officer Kit Low disputed Muddy Waters’ claims on a conference call Tuesday with analysts, saying that the firm’s report misinterpreted LCD-display numbers and financial data. He said Muddy Waters concentrated largely on Focus Media’s mergers and acquisitions, but the company hasn’t made any “major acquisitions in the past three years” because it is putting more emphasis on its core business. Focus Media Chief Executive Jason Jiang criticized short-sellers in a message posted on his verified account on China’s Sina Weibo microblog service. “Why isn’t anyone suing these short sellers who are just spreading malicious rumors everywhere?” the message said. “These people should be punished according to the law!!!” [