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(June 4, 2020) *UPDATE: Senate Passes House Bill – read article On Thursday, May 28, 2020, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Paycheck Protection Flexibility Act, H.R. 7010, to help ease loan forgiveness requirements for small businesses under. Read More >>

Late Friday night, the Treasury and the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued 26 pages of new guidance on the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) forgiveness rules that were issued on May 22. These new Interim Final Rules build upon what. Read More >>

Tod Wagner discusses tax planning in the current environment, including tax law changes and extensions in response to COVID-19. Read More >>

Dale Ruther covers the top 10 questions (and answers) we hear most with the Paycheck Protection Program loans. When is the loan forgiveness period? How do we calculate full-time employees? How does the safe harbor calculation work? What payroll. Read More >>

Dale Ruther breaks down the Paycheck Protection Program into three parts: Where we’ve been, where we’re at now, and where we are going. Read More >>

On Friday, May 15th the SBA released the PPP loan forgiveness application and instructions. These instructions do provide insight into the direction that SBA is moving with this process; however, this is not the long-awaited forgiveness regulation. Regulations will soon be. Read More >>

There has been a lot of discussions (and news coverage) around businesses with access to liquidity receiving Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. SBA has been addressing these questions in their Paycheck Protection Program Frequently Asked Questions (albeit not very. Read More >>

On April 30, 2020, the IRS released additional guidance in Notice 2020-32 regarding the tax treatment of amounts forgiven under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, which are a key part of the CARES Act. According to this new. Read More >>

We’ve had a variety of conversations with clients on loan applications, forgiveness, maximization, compliance requirements, and tools that can be used to navigate this environment through the near and longer-term future. (See our PPP Loan Forgiveness Highlights for details and. Read More >>

The Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) authorized up to $349 billion in forgivable loans to small businesses to pay their employees during the COVID-19 crisis. All loan terms will be the same for everyone. The loan amounts will be forgiven. Read More >>