Client ALERTS
The Employee Retention Tax Credit – Can Your Organization Benefit?
The Employee Retention Tax Credit Can Your Organization Benefit From This Credit? – What You Need To Know You may have heard about the federal Employee Retention Tax Credit. Many organizations are evaluating this tax credit to determine what benefits the credit may bring their organization. With recently issued guidance from the IRS on implementing…
Read MorePPP SBA Form 3508D
On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the Act) into law. The Act provides for significant changes to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and establishes a second round of additional funding for the PPP. Over the past several weeks, the SBA has issued numerous guidance documents and forms to implement…
Read MoreSBA PPP Round 2 Guidance
On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA) into law. A significant revision in this law involves extending and expanding an existing provision from prior 2020 Federal COVID-19 legislation regarding the employee retention credit and paycheck protection program. The CARES Act passed in March 2020 established the following two incentive…
Read MoreEmployee Retention Credit Updates
On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA) into law. A significant revision in this law involves extending and expanding an existing provision from prior 2020 Federal COVID-19 legislation regarding the employee retention credit. The CARES Act passed in March 2020 established the following two incentive programs that provide funds…
Read MoreConsolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 into law. The major tax-related provisions are summarized below: COVID-19-related Tax Relief Act of 2020: Additional Recovery Rebate Credit $600 per individual (including dependents) Phase out begins at Adjusted Gross Income of $150,000/$112,500/$75,000 (Married Filing Joint/Head of Household/Others) Advance payments will be based…
Read MoreClient ALERT: IRS Filing and Payment Q&A
To help clarify questions related to the filing and payment deadline extension announced in Notice 2020-18, the IRS released “Filing and Payment Deadlines Questions and Answers”. LINK: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/filing-and-payment-deadlines-questions-and-answers Highlights clarified in the Questions and Answers: Extended: • Only income tax returns and estimated income tax payments due on April 15th are automatically extended to July…
Read MoreClient ALERT: Family First Coronavirus Response Act Summary
CLIENT ALERT The Families First Coronavirus Response Act was signed by President Trump on March 18, 2020. Link to the full text is located here https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6201/text The current Family and Medical Leave Act provides eligible employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year, requires group health benefits to be maintained for the…
Read MoreUpdated: CLIENT ALERT: IRS Extends Filing Deadline
On March 20, 2020, the IRS released Notice 2020-18 (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-20-18.pdf) which supersedes Notice 2020-17 issued on March 18, 2020. Notice 2020-18 provides: • No extension forms are required to be filed. The April 15, 2020 filing deadline is automatically postponed to July 15, 2020. • The extension applies to any “person” defined as an individual,…
Read MoreClient ALERT: GA DOL Emergency Rule
March 19, 2020 The Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) has adopted an emergency Rule 300-2-4-0.5 Partial Claims, effective March 16, 2020. The rule mandates all Georgia employers to file partial claims online on behalf of their employees for any week during which an employee (full-time/part-time) works less than full-time due to a partial or total…
Read MoreClient ALERT: IRS Extends Payment Due Date
March 19, 2020 On March 18, 2020, the IRS released Notice 2020-17 extending the due date, penalties and interest on certain income tax payments. The Notice implemented the following changes: • Extended the due date for the payment of Federal income taxes (including self-employment tax) otherwise due on April 15, 2020 until July 15, 2020…
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