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Pandemic-era ERC started with good intentions, ending with frustration

April 08, 2025

The pandemic-era employee retention credit (ERC) officially ends April 15, but its legacy will live on in delayed payments to the businesses it was designed to help, fraudulent activity related to its claims, and confusion not only for taxpayers and tax professionals but also for the IRS.

  • coronavirus
  • advocacy - federal
  • federal tax

IRS Adds New Answers to Employee Retention Credit FAQs in Response to Practitioner Questions

March 25, 2025

The Employee Retention Credit FAQs have been update and answer a number of questions that practitioners have been asking.

  • business and industry
  • coronavirus
  • practice management
  • federal tax

Businesses with dubious ERC claims have another chance with the IRS

August 15, 2024

The IRS will reopen its voluntary disclosure program (VDP), allowing businesses to correct questionable employee retention credit (ERC) claims at a discount (Announcement 2024-30).

  • coronavirus
  • federal tax

IRS: Review of 1 million ERC claims reveals most show signs of risk

June 20, 2024

Most remaining employee retention credit (ERC) claims show signs of fraud or errors, and the IRS will deny tens of thousands of the most obvious erroneous claims in the coming weeks, the Service said Thursday.

  • business and industry
  • coronavirus
  • practice management
  • federal tax

9 months into ERC claim processing moratorium, still a waiting game

June 12, 2024

In September 2023, the IRS announced a moratorium on the processing of new employee retention credit (ERC) claims because of what it said was rampant fraud.

  • coronavirus
  • federal tax

How Connecticut changed during COVID, in 10 charts

May 21, 2023

On May 10, exactly three years and two months after Gov. Ned Lamont declared a public health emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he declared it over.

  • business and industry
  • coronavirus
  • practice management
  • advocacy - state