2021

As part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), Congress provided the Employee Retention Credit (“ERC”), which provides a refundable credit by means of reducing payroll tax liability for employers who retained payroll throughout the pandemic.

Financial reporting for gig workers (temporary, flexible workers such as independent contractors and freelancers instead of full-time employees) has always been complicated and recent legislation under The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) will continue this complexity and have a significant impact on gig economy workers and the companies and platforms who host them.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to dissipate, it’s important for construction companies to implement a proactive and aggressive approach to managing their risk. To protect their overall well-being, business owners must consider whether the vendors and subcontractors they’re working with are able to maintain their position financially, especially as projects and workloads ramp up.

Recent estimates by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) indicate that nearly $1 trillion in legally owed taxes go uncollected each year, making addressing this gap a major focus for both the IRS and Biden administration. In fact, it has been proposed by the current administration to increase the IRS’s budget by $80 billion over the next 10 years.

Several key calculations can help you determine gaps in your business that may prevent you from meeting your goals. Our graphic explains the three most important gaps that exist for most business owners and shares how to calculate these gaps to determine how to best meet your business and personal goals.

More than seven weeks after the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was signed into law authorizing the $28.6 billion Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF), access to this much-anticipated grant program is now within sight. The U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) RRF Application Portal is set to open for account registration on Friday, April 30, 2021 at 9:00 AM EDT.

On April 9, 2021, the IRS issued IR-2021-82, which urged participants in abusive micro-captive insurance arrangements to exit these transactions as soon as possible. At the time of the release, the IRS noted it has increased examinations of micro-captive arrangements and that it recently won another US Tax Court Case with the March 10, 2021 ruling in Caylor Land & Development, Inc. v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 2021-30 (“Caylor”).

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted, to varying degrees, both the current and future financial performance of almost every company across all industries. As a result, assessing goodwill impairment has become a hot topic, with some companies taking another look at the valuation-related processes surrounding their existing goodwill impairment procedures.