Each year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) releases a Dirty Dozen list highlighting twelve tax fraud scams that taxpayers, businesses and tax professionals should be wary of. The 2024 list, which was rolled out in the lead-up to Tax Day, features a wide range of tax schemes.

On April 19, 2024, after reviewing and responding to over 230,000 public comments, the Department of Education released its 1,577-page Final Rule under Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education.

According to the Report of the Visa Office 2023, the State Department issued a total of 10,438,327 nonimmigrant visas, up more than 34% from last year’s total of 6,815,120. Visa issuance plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic but has rebounded in each of the last two fiscal years.

On Tuesday, April 30, 2024, U.S. Congressmen Drew Ferguson (R-GA) and Wiley Nickel (D-NC) introduced a bill, the Providing Tax Clarity for Digital Assets Act, to codify the U.S. federal income tax treatment of the acquisition by a taxpayer of a reward of a digital asset pursuant to a consensus mechanism