The Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERC or ERTC) has been in the news. The IRS continues to warn taxpayers about ERC refund scams and ramped up enforcement to root out false claims for the pandemic ...

In a May 2021 article in Think Outside The Tax Box, I referred to the Employee Retention Credit as the ugly stepchild of the 2020 CARES Act. The reason was that the Paycheck Protection Program was ...

The Employee Retention Credit (ERC) emerged as a pivotal support ... The IRS has previously rejected thousands of claims, and while some denials have been attributed to analytical errors, the ...

The IRS’s use of automated filters to process requests for tax credits is a practical necessity given a “deluge” that ...

A human resources company’s claim for an unprocessed pandemic-era tax credit can’t be considered at a hearing to address a separate tax liability, the US Tax Court said Thursday.

On January 22, 2025, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the indictment of seven individuals in the largest Employee Retention Credit ...

Take, for example, the employee retention tax credit (ERTC), a federal payroll tax break available to businesses economically hurt by the coronavirus crisis but continue to keep employees on the ...