CARES Act

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August 10, 2021

Infrastructure bill would end ERC, increase cryptoasset reporting

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, passed by the Senate on Tuesday, contains a few tax provisions, most notably it would end the employee retention credit on Sept. 30. It would also require information reporting about cryptoasset transfers.

July 1, 2021

Farm businesses receive guidance on tax treatment of losses

The IRS in Rev. Proc. 2021-14 specifies procedures regarding limitation and carryback of net operating losses from farming in light of CARES Act provisions.

June 25, 2021

SBA may be dropping PPP Loan Necessity Questionnaire requirement

Indications are that businesses with Paycheck Protection Program loans of $2 million or more will not have to submit a Loan Necessity Questionnaire when applying for forgiveness of their loans.

April 5, 2021

How to claim the employee retention credit for the first half of 2021

The IRS issued guidance on how to claim the employee retention credit for the first and second quarters of 2021. It will issue guidance on the employee retention credit from July 1 to Dec. 31, 2021, provided in new Sec. 3134, at a later date.

March 15, 2021

SBA defers EIDL payments until 2022

The SBA extended deferral periods for all disaster loans, including those made through the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. With the deferral, small businesses that received a COVID-19 EIDL loan won’t have to make a first payment on the loan until next year.

March 2, 2021

IRS issues employee retention credit guidance

The IRS issued guidance on the employee retention credit in effect for qualified wages paid after March 12, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020, including how it interacts with Paycheck Protection Program loans.

February 1, 2021

States’ rolling conformity to the Code and CARES Act

Examples from several states show that rolling conformity is not as clear-cut as it sounds.

January 28, 2021

Employee retention credit changes leave practitioners with questions

The IRS issued guidance on two aspects of the employee retention credit — how to claim the credit when filing the fourth quarter Form 941 when the taxpayer knows its loan under the PPP will not be forgiven and how the newly extended and amended employee retention credit will apply.

January 19, 2021

Some individual taxpayers get relief from underpayment penalty

The IRS granted individual taxpayers a waiver from the penalty for underestimated tax due solely to the amendment to Sec. 461(l)(1)(B) in the CARES Act repealing the excess business loss limitations for years before 2021.

January 1, 2021

Tax season preview

COVID-19 relief measures confront return preparers with novel predicaments. [Updated with tax provisions from the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, the COVID-19 relief package signed into law in late December 2020.]

December 27, 2020

Many tax provisions appear in year-end coronavirus relief bill

The year-end coronavirus relief and spending bill passed by Congress includes many tax provisions, including pandemic-related relief, extensions of expired provisions, and a large number of miscellaneous items, including temporary 100% deductibility for business meals.

December 3, 2020

Expenses used for PPP loan forgiveness: Deductible or not?

Two experts look at the issue of the deductibility of expenses paid with PPP loan funds and conclude that they should be deductible.

December 1, 2020

A reckoning for payroll tax deferrals

Employers must be wary of the trust fund recovery penalty if they take advantage of deferrals in the CARES Act.

November 16, 2020

Quiz: Are you ready for year-end planning during a pandemic?

When it comes time to put on your year-end planning hat, will you be prepared to provide the best tax and financial planning advice to clients? Take this quiz to see if you’re ready to tackle year-end planning for 2020.

November 1, 2020

Deducting losses in the CARES Act’s window

For a limited time, taxpayers have flexibility for using net operating losses.

October 30, 2020

Fed opens up Main Street loans to smaller businesses

The Federal Reserve board announced that it lowered the minimum loan size for three of its Main Street Lending Program facilities in an effort to make the program available to more and smaller businesses.

October 6, 2020

Nonfilers have until Nov. 21 to apply for economic impact payment

The IRS announced that it was extending the deadline from Oct. 15 to Nov. 21 at midnight for certain individuals to enter their information on the Non-Filers: Enter Payment Info Here tool on the IRS website to receive the $1,200 stimulus payment due to individual taxpayers.

September 1, 2020

State conformity to CARES Act relief

Relative to CARES Act tax provisions, state conformity to date is varied.

September 1, 2020

The new charitable deduction for nonitemizers

A one-time deduction of up to $300 can be taken directly on individual returns.

July 29, 2020

IRS issues business interest expense limitation guidance

The IRS issued a package of related guidance on the business interest expense limitation enacted in the law known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and amended by the CARES Act.

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