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The Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) passed late last year
provides the much-needed stimulus and tax relief for businesses hit
hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Two of the provisions that business
owners are most likely interested in are the $284 billion in
funding for forgivable loans through the Paycheck Protection
Program (PPP), for both first-time and so-called second-draw borrowers, and the extension of the
Employee Retention Credit.
DEDUCTION FOR PPP EXPENSES
The CARES Act created the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP),
which made forgivable loans available to eligible small businesses
Furthermore, Congress included a $1.2 billion allocation of disaster LIHTC authority for the 11 states and Puerto Rico that experienced non-COVID-19 major disasters in 2020 that qualified for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) individual and individual and public assistance (i.e., disaster zones) with an overall cap of no more than 65% of the respective state LIHTC ceiling. Congress granted LIHTC properties in disaster zones an additional 12 months to satisfy the 10% test and placed-in-service deadline, as well as giving allocating agencies more flexibility to allocate disaster authority by allowing disaster LIHTCs to be carried over to 2022. See below for estimates.
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