Employee Retention Credit Expanded Under CAA 2021

By Roger Rossmeisl, CPA of Kho & Patel CPAs

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA 2021), signed into law by President Trump on 12/27/20, includes the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020 (TCDTRA) which extends and expands upon the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) provided by the CARES Act. Well, that’s a mouthful! But whereas most of the COVID-19 related payroll tax provisions have yielded cash flow enhancing mechanisms that were just timing differences (i.e. no actual reduction in taxes due), there’s some real money on the table with the newly modified, expanded, and extended Employee Retention Credit.

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