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Eric Purvis works on taxes from his home in Saco on Tuesday. Purvis is a certified public accountant dealing with the uncertainty surrounding the federal American Rescue Plan and state treatment of pandemic relief loan forgiveness, so tax season is not as smooth as it could be this spring. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer
The folks who prepare taxes professionally are accustomed to dealing with deadlines.
Even for them, however, this tax season has been challenging because of the uncertainty surrounding both state and federal policy.
Eric Purvis, a certified public accountant and partner in the Portland office of the national accounting firm Marcum, is holding onto partnership and S corporation tax returns that are due Monday because Maine has yet to clarify its treatment of forgiven Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, pandemic relief loans for small employers.
As tax deadlines approach, Maine CPAs say much remains uncertain
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The temporary director of Maine’s public defense agency likened his first month on the job to a doctor performing “triage” as he has tried to restore financial and operational integrity to a fraught state agency.
Justin Andrus intended to reopen his private law practice late last year, but instead was asked to help the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services, or MCILS, get back on track. It’s been one month since he joined as interim executive director of the agency responsible for training and supervising private lawyers who defend the poor against criminal charges and other legal matters on behalf of the state.