In the years since COVID-19 shut down the country, many businesses applied for the Congressionally-authorized Employee Retention Credit (ERC), a valuable relief program created during the pandemic to ...

Editor’s Note: In September 2023, the IRS stopped processing new ERC claims. The IRS began processing ERC claims again on August 8, 2024. The IRS also announced a voluntary disclosure and repayment ...

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The lawsuit is one of several filed in recent years to allege delayed Employee Retention Credits for employers that dealt with business disruptions during the pandemic’s earliest phases. Congress ...

A recent court decision in Utah suggests that businesses are willing to file lawsuits against ERC advisors, but the result also illustrates that a win isn’t guaranteed. At the peak of the pandemic, ...

The agency has announced it is opening a supplemental claim process to help third-party payers and their clients resolve incorrect claims related to the Employee Retention Credit. Third-party payers, ...

In its attempt to speed processing of employee retention credit (ERC) claims, the IRS changed its policy for pre-refund examinations and should consider reviewing nearly 185,000 claims totaling almost ...

You can add the Internal Revenue Service to the ranks of federal agencies conceding that raining taxpayer money on all and sundry to offset the negative effects of pandemic-era closures didn't go as ...

The nation is 10 months into the moratorium on Employee Retention Credit claims, and with the IRS’s recent announcement that it would deny thousands of improper claims, there are no signs of it ending ...

Case: Stenson Tamaddon LLC v. IRS, No. CV-24-01123-PHX-SPL, 2025 WL 1725942 (D. Ariz. June 20, 2025) On June 20, 2025, the US District Court for the District of Arizona denied a motion for summary ...