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Padgett Business Services’ Roger Harris suggests some exceptions for employers with fewer than 50 staff.
May 12 -
Leaders of Congress’s tax-writing committees want employers to be able to continue providing health insurance to their furloughed employees and still qualify for tax credits.
May 5 -
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the additional funding Congress approved Thursday to help small businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic should be the last round, but advocates fear it’ll run out quickly and won’t be enough for mom-and-pop shops struggling to stay open.
April 24 -
While the new stimulus package provides much-needed additional funding for the Paycheck Protection Program, it made no significant changes to the process of qualifying for a loan.
April 23 -
Democrats on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee have sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin asking what has happened with the delayed economic impact payments.
April 22 -
Recipients of Social Security benefits, as well as railroad retirement and veterans benefits recipients, will need to act fast.
April 20 -
The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service are partnering with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to deliver economic impact payments automatically to veterans and their beneficiaries, without filling out extra forms, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 17 -
People who receive Supplemental Security Income will automatically get economic impact payments from the federal government in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
April 17 -
The Treasury Department has created a web-based portal through which state, local and tribal governments will be able to access payments to help offset the costs of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
April 13 -
This is normally the time of year when the federal government is collecting taxes due, but the devastating coronavirus now has the U.S. trying to rapidly dole out hundreds of billions of dollars in aid and tax breaks to businesses large and small.
April 6