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Tax Planning Coronavirus/COVID-19 CARES Act

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

How New IRS Actions Affect Your ERC Claim

With the passage of the 2020 CARES Act, Congress created the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) for eligible employers whose operations were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The IRS, however, stopped processing new ERC claims...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

IRS Prepares for Next Stage of Combating Fraudulent Pandemic-Related Employee Retention Credits (ERCs)

On June 20, following a long and detailed review process, the IRS announced its plan to deny tens of thousands of highest-risk Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claims while resuming the processing of only the lowest-risk ERC...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

The IRS is Aggressively Pursuing Employee Retention Credit Claims. Are You at Risk?

Congress enacted the Employee Retention Credit (“ERC”) during the COVID-19 pandemic to help employers retain their workforce and stay current on payroll despite economic difficulties that plagued the world. The legislation...more

Gray Reed

ERC Claims on Hold While IRS Figures Out What it Thinks is Real

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The IRS recently issued a press release regarding its “continuous efforts to combat dubious Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claims” to announce an initial round of over 20,000 notification letters of disallowed ERC claims....more

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Employee Retention Tax Credits Update: IRS Warns Taxpayers to Beware

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On October 19, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (“Service”) issued news release IR-2022-183, which was intended to warn employers using third-party promoters of Employee Retention Tax Credits (“ERTCs”).  ERTCs were created...more

Ruder Ware

Employers Beware: IRS Cautions Employers Against Engaging Third Party Employee Retention Credit Consultants

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Recently, we have been fielding a fair number of inquiries from clients who have been approached by third parties urging them to claim the Employee Retention Credit (“ERC”)... ...more

Freeman Law

A Primer on the Employee Retention Credit (ERC)

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The Employee Retention Credit – Introduction. Congress acted quickly during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic to provide hiring and other economic incentives to employers. One particularly helpful relief provision—the employee...more

Polsinelli

How to Keep Found Money: Mitigating Risk When Claiming Employee Retention Credits

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The employee retention credit (“ERC”), enacted as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, known as the CARES Act, is a fully refundable tax credit that can be as high as $26,000 per employee....more

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Make Your Year-End Charitable Gifts to Take Advantage of Expanded Tax Benefits

Because of the hardships from the COVID-19 pandemic and several weather related events, the demand on charitable organizations has increased significantly this year, increasing the need for charitable giving. Tax benefits to...more

Burr & Forman

PPP Loan Application Date Extended by Congress

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President Biden has signed the PPP Extension Act of 2021. The new law extends the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) application filing deadline from March 31, 2021 to May 31, 2021.  The new law gives qualifying businesses and...more

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Credit Where Credit Is Due: IRS Offers Long-Sought Guidance on Employer Retention Credit Program

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As we previously reported, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”) provided for an employee retention credit (“ERC”) designed to encourage employers to retain workers during the COVID-19...more

Burr & Forman

Retroactive 2020 Employee Retention Credit Changes and 2021 Enhancements

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The Employee Retention Credit, as originally enacted on March 27, 2020 by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), is a refundable tax credit against certain employment taxes equal to 50% of the...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

The Robins Kaplan Spotlight, Vol. 5 No. 4, Winter 2021 - The Case for Charitable Giving

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Last year brought with it several unexpected challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including economic, social, and financial hardships that have left many in a position of extraordinary need. ...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021

Business Tax Provisions - About-Face on Deductibility of PPP Expenses. The CAA overrules the IRS’s previous guidance denying the deductibility of expenses relating to forgiven PPP loans....more

Akerman LLP - SALT Insights

Summary of Tax Provisions in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the new $900 billion stimulus package – the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the CAA), which, among other things, advances legislation intended to provide additional help for...more

Stinson LLP

IRS Reverses on Deductibility of Expenses Paid with PPP Loans

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On January 6, the IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2021-2, reversing its earlier position and allowing expenses paid with PPP loan proceeds to be deducted....more

Payne & Fears

Paycheck Protection Program Phase 2: What Businesses Need to Know

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Much of the publicity and scrutiny surrounding the recently enacted coronavirus relief bill attached to the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 has been focused on the economic impact payments and supplemental...more

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Paycheck Protection Program Loan Borrowers Will Find Deductions Under the Tree This Holiday Season

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On the evening of December 21, 2020 the House and Senate passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”), a 5,593 page bill that funds the federal government for the next fiscal year and provides long anticipated...more

UB Greensfelder LLP

Congress Confirms Tax Deductions for Expenses Paid with PPP Loans, Extends Other Tax Provisions

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Congress gave recipients of loans under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) a holiday present when it confirmed the deductibility of expenses paid with proceeds of a PPP loan that is forgiven. This confirmation is part of...more

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New COVID-19 Relief Bill Allows Deductibility of Expenses Paid with Forgiven PPP Loans

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As I previously reported in an article published earlier this month, the IRS has repeatedly taken the position that businesses cannot deduct otherwise deductible expenses (such as payroll or rent) if the business used...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Are Eligible PPP Expenses Deductible? IRS vs. Congress?

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The CARES Act was enacted in March 2020 for purposes including providing financial assistance to eligible borrowers under the Paycheck Protection Program, well known as PPP, and more than $500 billion of forgivable loans have...more

Morgan Lewis

IRS Provides Further Guidance on the Deductibility of Expenses Funded by PPP Loans

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The Internal Revenue Service recently released Revenue Ruling 2020-27 and Revenue Procedure 2020-51, which provide guidance on the deductibility of certain expenses paid or incurred in a taxpayer’s business using loan...more

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State and Local Tax Responses to Covid-19 (UPDATED)

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Alabama: The Alabama Commissioner of Revenue has issued a series of orders. On March 18, 2020, the commissioner ordered that late payment penalties are waived for small retail businesses whose monthly retail sales during the...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

IRS Issues Ruling on PPP Loan Forgiveness and Non-Deductible Expenses

On November 18, 2020, the IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2020-27 (Ruling), which provided an answer to the question that Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan borrowers have been asking for months: can borrowers who received PPP...more

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IRS Updates Guidance on Deductibility of Expenses Paid With PPP Loan Proceeds

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The IRS recently released additional guidance about the tax treatment of expenses paid with proceeds of Paycheck Protection Program loans. The PPP loans are a COVID relief program enacted as part of the CARES Act....more

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