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Husch Blackwell LLP

Mid-Year Update: PPP Investigations Continue as DOJ Enforcement Priority

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As we enter the second half of 2025—over five years now since the COVID-19 pandemic began—federal government scrutiny relating to Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans received in the early days of the pandemic is still...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

IRS Increases Pressure on Businesses That Claimed Employee Retention Tax Credits

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued a news release identifying five new signs that a business’s Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERC) may be incorrect. It has also begun issuing a third round of letters denying...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Employee Retention Credit on the Chopping Block as Congress Mulls Tax and Spending Bills

The Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 (H.R. 7024) would terminate the employee retention credit (ERC) for claims filed after January 31, 2024. Initially authorized by the CARES Act to incentivize...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

Adams & Reese

More Businesses Now Eligible for Employee Retention Credit (ERC) – Do You Qualify?

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What is the ERC? Congress introduced the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) as part of the CARES Act to encourage businesses to keep employees on their payroll during the pandemic. ...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

More DOJ Double-Dipping PPP Fraud News

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The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) continues rolling out new settlement agreements related to COVID-19 fraud - highlighting the government’s and a common relator’s efforts to crack down on those alleged to have improperly...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Preview of 2022 Required Changes for Retirement Plans

As 2022 begins, retirement plan sponsors and service providers should keep in mind deadlines for required plan changes in 2022. In particular, retirement plan changes under the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

IRS Provides Additional Guidance on Tax Treatment of Paycheck Protection Program Loan Forgiveness

The Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) created under the CARES Act provided much needed economic relief to businesses and other organizations negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the biggest benefits of the...more

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Employer-Provided COVID-19 Testing: An Employee Benefits Q&A

Although the fate of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) rules remains in limbo, many employers are moving ahead with efforts to comply with the OSHA emergency temporary standard (ETS) that requires...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Employer-Sponsored Retirement and Health Plans: What You Need to Know for Year-End

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While year-end is ordinarily a busy time for companies, the number of COVID-19-related pieces of legislation and developments present additional items employers and plan sponsors must address in wrapping up 2021....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Denver Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - October 15th, Denver, CO

Our one-day Regional Compliance Conferences provide attendees with a forum to interact with local compliance professionals, share information about your compliance successes and challenges, and create educational...more

Fisher Phillips

Tracker Reveals: Hot COVID Litigation Summer Could Foreshadow Trouble for Employers

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A sharp increase in pandemic-related workplace litigation this summer could spell trouble for employers, as we expect to see a steady increase in COVID-19 lawsuits filed by employees across the country. That’s just one of 10...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Kansas City Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - September 17th, Lenexa, KS

Our one-day Regional Compliance Conferences provide attendees with a forum to interact with local compliance professionals, share information about your compliance successes and challenges, and create educational...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] 2021 Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - Orange County - June 11th, 8:25 am - 4:30 pm PDT

Our Virtual Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences provide updates on the latest news in regulatory requirement, compliance enforcement, and strategies to develop effective compliance programs. Watch, listen, and ask...more

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American Rescue Plan Act of 2021: Top Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Provisions

On March 11, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA). The ARPA is the latest installment of COVID-19–related stimulus packages passed by Congress in the last 12 months. Similar to the...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

The American Rescue Plan Act Of 2021: What’s In It For Employers?

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Almost one year after the enactment of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), and with the second extension of pandemic unemployment assistance about to expire for millions of workers on March...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Cares Act III: Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Extended Yet Again For ‎Independent Contractors

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Tonight the President is expected to announce on the major networks and cable news services that he will sign into law tomorrow the next stimulus bill called the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which Congress passed...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New Guidance on Health Plans’ COVID-19 Coverage Obligations

On February 26, 2021, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Treasury issued Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the implementation of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”), the...more

Cozen O'Connor

New PPP Forgiveness Guidance And Forms

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On January 19, SBA issued an interim final rule governing forgiveness of Paycheck Protection Program loans and also issued new versions of the three forgiveness application forms, including a streamlined form for loans up to...more

Miller Canfield

Congress Permits SBA to Make PPP Loans to Debtors in Bankruptcy, SBA Says "No"

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In June and December of 2020, Miller Canfield reported that the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits had held that the Small Business Administration ("SBA") may exclude debtors in bankruptcy from consideration for Paycheck Protection...more

King & Spalding

PPP Round Three: Second Draws and Second Chances

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On December 27, 2020, Congress passed the Economic Aid Act, another COVID-19 relief bill with changes to the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) and the opportunity for many PPP loan recipients to apply for a second loan,...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Paycheck Protection Program 2.0: What Small Businesses Need To Know

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, comprised of more than 5,500 pages and including a $900 billion stimulus package, became law on December 27, 2020. As part of this law, the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses,...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

SBA Posts Interim Final Rules Implementing Changes to First Draw and Second Draw Loans under the Paycheck Protection Program

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On January 6, 2020, the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) issued its much anticipated Interim Final Rules (“IFR”) under the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding act, the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small...more

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U.S. Paycheck Protection Program Restarts: Summary Of Key Updates

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On December 27, 2020, the President signed into law the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021” (H.R. 133) (or the “2021 CAA”), which modifies and reopens the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program...more

Lathrop GPM

Relief Is On the Way: The Second COVID-19 Relief Bill and What You Need to Know

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Just before midnight on December 21, 2020, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (the “Act”), a nearly 5,500 page stimulus bill allocating roughly $900 billon of much needed relief to United States...more

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