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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

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

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

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Update: President Biden Signs PPP Extension Act of 2021; PPP Extended for Applicants to May 31, 2021

Update: President Biden signed the PPP Extension Act of 2021 on March 30, 2021. Eligible applicants for both the First and Second Draw PPP Loans now have until May 31, 2021 to submit their application....more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Court Dismisses Bankruptcy Case to Enable Debtor to Seek a Paycheck Protection Loan

It is well known in the restructuring world that a debtor in bankruptcy can’t get a PPP loan. But what if you’re a debtor and decide a PPP loan could save your business? Will a court dismiss the case so you can seek a loan?...more

Snell & Wilmer

SBA Adopts New Process for Absolving Fraudulent Loans in Attempt to Provide Certainty to Affected Businesses

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The Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) was created on March 27, 2020 as part of the first COVID-19 relief package. Over the past year, Congress appropriated almost $700 billion to the PPP in an effort to provide forgivable...more

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PPP Forgiveness: 7 Commonly Asked Questions and Answers

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) provided much needed assistance to small businesses affected by COVID-19. While the PPP is a small business loan program within Section 7(a) of the Small Business Act, PPP loans are...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

COVID-19 Relief: Loan Forgiveness Requirements and Loan Review Procedures for Renewed Paycheck Protection Program

On January 19, 2021, the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a new interim final rule on loan forgiveness and loan review procedures for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), as reinitiated by the Economic Aid to...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

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Reopening of All First and Second Draw PPP Loan Applications Starts Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021

The U.S. Department of Treasury and the Small Business Association (SBA) announced that it will reopen the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan portal to all participating PPP lenders to submit First and Second Draw loan...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

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Eligibility, Payroll Cost Calculation and Documentation Requirements for First and Second Draw of PPP Loan Applications 

On Jan. 6, 2021, the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued guidance regarding the stimulus package’s Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits and Venues Act (previously reported here), which continued the...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

McDermott Will & Schulte

COVID Relief Bill: Key PPP Eligibility Issues Loom Large for New and Second Draw Loans

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The COVID-19 relief bill opens the door to new aid for small businesses under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). This is welcome news to small businesses throughout the country, but—as detailed below—there are significant...more

Fisher Phillips

November 2020: The Top 16 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

Snell & Wilmer

IRS Releases Much-Awaited Guidance on PPP-Loan-Related Expenses, But More is Still Needed

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On November 18, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") clarified its stance on the deductibility of expenses paid or incurred by businessowners who participated in the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) by issuing...more

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IRS Confirms Non-Deductibility Of Expenses Related To PPP Loans

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Businesses that reasonably anticipate that loans under the Paycheck Protection Program will be forgiven should be aware that they cannot claim a deduction for the eligible expenses paid or incurred during the 2020 taxable...more

CDF Labor Law LLP

[Webinar] COVID-19 Employment Law Issues Employers Should Know - Potential Litigation, Wage & Hour, Testing, Time Off Work and...

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To assist employers, corporate counsel, and HR professionals that are still grappling with the myriad of COVID-19 issues, CDF has designed a series of complimentary webinars for the week of December 7-11, 2020 from 9-10 am...more

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