Employee Retention Credit news and trends

FinCEN Alerts Financial Institutions About Ongoing ERC-Related Fraud Schemes
Security & Fraud // November 22, 2023

Fraud related to COVID-19 relief programs continues to occur “at a concerning scale.” Andrea Gacki, director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), said this in a Thursday (Nov. 22) press release announcing the issuance of an alert to financial institutions on fraud schemes related...

IRS Boosts Safeguards on Tax Credit to Prevent PPP-Like Fraud
Regulation // September 14, 2023

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has placed a moratorium on processing new claims for the Employee Retention Credit (ERC), a pandemic-era relief program, aiming to prevent a recurrence of the sort of fraud that happened around the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). This decision comes in response to growing concerns about the...

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IRS Launches Voluntary Disclosure Program for Businesses That Filed Dubious ERC Claims 

December 21, 2023
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has launched a new program that aims to assist businesses that mistakenly filed Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claims and want to repay the funds they received in error.  The IRS has been working on this Voluntary Disclosure Program for several months as part of its larger initiative to address aggressive marketing […]

FinCEN Alerts Financial Institutions About Ongoing ERC-Related Fraud Schemes

November 22, 2023
Fraud related to COVID-19 relief programs continues to occur “at a concerning scale.” Andrea Gacki, director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), said this in a Thursday (Nov. 22)...

IRS Boosts Safeguards on Tax Credit to Prevent PPP-Like Fraud

September 14, 2023
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has placed a moratorium on processing new claims for the Employee Retention Credit (ERC), a pandemic-era relief program, aiming to prevent a recurrence of the sort of fraud that...