乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网

Industries

Helping clients meet their business challenges begins with an in-depth understanding of the industries in which they work. That鈥檚 why 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 LLP established its industry-driven structure. In fact, 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 LLP was the first of the Big Four firms to organize itself along the same industry lines as clients.

How We Work

We bring together passionate problem-solvers, innovative technologies, and full-service capabilities to create opportunity with every insight.

Learn more

Careers & Culture

What is culture? Culture is how we do things around here. It is the combination of a predominant mindset, actions (both big and small) that we all commit to every day, and the underlying processes, programs and systems supporting how work gets done.

Learn more

The Employee Retention Credit

A federal tax credit helping financially impacted businesses pay employees via refundable employment tax credit

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act* includes several significant business tax and nontax provisions.

Notably, the employee retention credit (ERC) provides immediate cash-flow relief to eligible employers that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Such cash-flow relief comes in the form of a refundable employment tax credit, up to $5,000 per impacted employee for 2020 and up to $21,000 per impacted employee through Q3 of 2021 (28,000 through Q4 per impacted employee of an eligible recovery startup business)**.

What you need to know about the ERC

What does the ERC offer to eligible employers?

2020

  • 50% of qualified wages (including qualified health plan expenses) paid to each employee
  • $10,000 in maximum wages; therefore, maximum credit is $5,000 per employee

2021

  • 70 % of qualified wages (including qualified health plan expenses) paid to each employee
  • $10,000 in maximum wages for Q1-Q3 in 2021; therefore, maximum credit is $21,000 per employee

In order to be an eligible employer for the credit, the employer must:

  • Have fully or partially suspended operations during applicable calendar quarters in 2020 or 2021 due to orders from an appropriate government authority limiting commerce, travel, or group meetings due to COVID-19; OR
  • Have experienced a significant decline in gross receipts during the calendar quarter.

Footnotes

*Expanded by the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020, signed into law on Dec. 27, 2020 and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, signed into law on Mar. 11, 2021.
**Repealed for calendar quarters beginning after September 30, 2021 (other than eligible recovery startup businesses) by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, signed into law on November 15, 2021.

Helpful Definitions:

Qualified wages

Qualified wages are wages and compensation paid to certain employees from March 13, 2020 through September 30, 2021. Qualified wages include the eligible employer鈥檚 qualified health plan expenses.

If the eligible employer averaged more than 100 full-time employees in 2019 (for 2020 wages) or more than 500 full-time employees in 2019 (for 2021 wages), qualified wages are limited to the wages paid to the employee for the time that the employee is not providing services due to the circumstances causing the employer to be an eligible employer.

Significant decline in gross receipts

A significant decline in gross receipts begins听with the first quarter in which an employer鈥檚 gross receipts for a calendar quarter in 2020 are less than 50 percent of its gross receipts for the same calendar quarter in 2019, or for 2021 that are less than 80 percent of gross receipts for the same calendar quarter in 2019. Alternative considerations may apply as well.

What does the ERC mean to your organization?

1

Public colleges and universities as well as governmental health care employers may now be eligible for the ERC for qualified wages paid during Q1-Q3 2021.

2

Small and start-up businesses accross all industries may have an opportunity to receive financial relief through payroll tax credits, which may result

3

Employers that received a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan may now be eligible for the ERC for both 2020 and 2021.

Discover more

Employee Retention Credit

Seeking Clarity Amid COVID-19 July 2020 | This issue of Chief Tax Officer Insights 鈥� Issues Spotlight examines questions tax leader must answer as they weight the benefits against the risks of claiming the Employee Retention Credit.

Download PDF

乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 can help

  • Determine and document if the company is an eligible employer
  • Coordinate with company鈥檚 Tax, Legal, and other applicable internal departments, as well as external counsel to consider applicable government orders
  • Use automated technology-based solutions to efficiently and properly identify and document impacted employees
  • Calculate and document qualified wages
  • Coordinate with other CARES Act provisions and employment tax and federal tax regimes, as necessary, to help ensure no double-counting
  • Assist with the procedural requirements to claim the credit.
  • Support related to the proper financial statement accounting treatment for credits claimed

News and guidance听

December 6, 2021 -听听

September 8, 2021 -听

August 10, 2021 -听

April 6, 2021 -听

April 2, 2021 -听

March 10, 2021 -听

March 5, 2021 -听

Earlier news

January 25, 2021听-听

November 19, 2020听-听

November 16,听2020听-听

August 21, 2020听-听

July 24, 2020听-听

July 15, 2020听-

June 23, 2020听-

June 22, 2020听-听

May 27, 2020听-听

May 8, 2020听-

April 30, 2020听-听

April 29, 2020听-听

April 23, 2020听-听

April 3, 2020听-听

March 30, 2020听-

Notice 2021-65: Termination of employee retention credit, guidance for fourth quarter 2021 (COVID-19)

Guidance for employers regarding retroactive termination of employee retention credit for wages paid.

Thank you!

Thank you for contacting 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网.听We will respond to you as soon as possible.

Contact 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网

Use this form to submit general inquiries to 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网. We will respond to you as soon as possible.

By submitting, you agree that 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 LLP may process any personal information you provide pursuant to 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 LLP\'s .听

An error occurred. Please contact customer support.

Job seekers

Visit our careers section or search our jobs database.

Submit RFP

Use the RFP submission form to detail the services 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 can help assist you with.

Office locations

International hotline

You can confidentially report concerns to the 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 International hotline

Press contacts

Do you need to speak with our Press Office? Here's how to get in touch.

Headline