A loan for small business meant to help retain workers, maintain payroll, and cover rent/mortgage/utility expenses. The loan covers expenses from back in February 15, to June 30, 2020, and can be forgiven and essentially turned into a non-taxable grant. Loan is long-term (max 10 years), low-interest (maximum 4%) and you have an extended deferment period (6-12 months) before you begin repayment.
More inclusive and extensive than SBA loans, qualifying entities include small businesses, sole proprietorships, independent contractors, and self-employed individuals. No personal or business collateral is required, it is acceptable to have access to credit elsewhere, the funding covers more restrictive set of purposes, and your loan can be forgiven if you follow the terms.
The funds must be used to retain workers and maintain payroll or make mortgage, lease, and utility payments. SBA will ask applicants for certain financial reports, including documentation related to payroll and operating expenses over the previous 12 month period. An average monthly payroll cost is calculated based on eligible payroll costs as defined by the Act. The maximum loan amount offered to applicants is 2.5 times that monthly average payroll cost, but no more than $10 million. In the 8 weeks following the loan signing date, a borrower is eligible for loan forgiveness in an amount equal to the expenses paid related to these payroll costs, mortgage interest, rent, and utilities.
A non-forgivable loan up to $2 million for small businesses that have suffered “substantial economic injury” meant to help retain workers, maintain payroll, pay for rent or mortgage payments, other obligations that cannot be met due to revenue losses, . The loan covers expenses from the covered period January 31, 2020 and ending on December 31, 2020. Loan is long-term (max 30 years), low-interest (maximum 3.75%) and you have an extended deferment period (6-12 months) before you begin repayment.
Qualifying entities include small businesses including private nonprofit organizations under 500 employees, sole proprietorships, independent contractors, and self-employed individuals. May require personal guarantees for certain amounts.
CORAL GABLES
255 Alhambra Circle, Suite 560
Coral Gables, FL 33134
Phone: 305.446.3177
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A check for $1,200 ($2,400 for couples) to qualified taxpayers (plus $500 for every child under 17).
Eligibility will be based on 2019 or 2018 tax returns, or Social Security Benefit statement. Individuals are eligible for entire payment amount so long as their adjusted gross income (AGI) does not exceed $75,000 (150,000 if married). Once over those thresholds, you lose $5 of payment amount for every $100 your AGI exceeds such thresholds.
Individuals who are claimed as dependents on another’s tax return are not eligible for payment. Payments will be made between now and December 31, 2020. Any payment received from the program acts as an advanced payment of credit you will compute again on your 2020 tax return. In other words, in 2021 you will recompute amount owed based on 2020 data. If the payment you receive today is less than what you are owed based on 2020 data, the excess amount is treated as credit reducing your 2020 tax liability. On the other hand, if the advanced payment is greater than what you’re owed for 2020, no credit is received and you will have to repay excess amount to IRS.
If you are younger than 59½, you are subject to a 10 percent early withdrawal penalty on top of the income tax owed on your withdrawal from your retirement plan. The CARES Act waives the 10 percent penalty for IRAs and defined contribution plans for participants experiencing financial hardship up to $100,000 made on or after January 1st.
Coronavirus-related distributions can be taken for the following reasons:
To ease the tax burden, if you pull money from your retirement account, you have up to three years to pay taxes on the withdrawals. You can repay all or a portion of the distribution within three years, and the repayments will not be counted toward the annual contribution limits.In addition, Loan limits from retirement plans have been increased from $50,000 to $100,000. The existing rule that loans may not exceed half the vested account balance has been removed. New and existing loan payments can be deferred for a year.Finally, you are required by law to take withdrawals from your IRA, SIMPLE IRA, SEP IRA or retirement plan such as a 401(k) once you reach 72 (It was 70½ before 2020). But the CARES Act waives required minimum distribution payments for 2020, including for inherited IRAs.
For taxpayers who DO NOT itemize their deductions, the CARES Act allows such individuals to deduct a CASH contribution not to exceed $300 made to certain qualifying charities “above-the-line” in computing Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) . Thus, the taxpayer is allowed to deduct up to $300 PLUS the Standard Deduction.
For taxpayers that DO itemize, the new law temporarily increases the limit (60% of Adjusted Gross Income) on charitable giving for 2020. Charitable contributions in 2020 will be allowed to be deducted up to 100% of the taxpayer’s AGI, with any excess contributions available to be carried over for the next five years. For corporate donors, the 10% charitable giving limit of adjustable taxable income would increase to 25%.
CORAL GABLES
255 Alhambra Circle, Suite 560
Coral Gables, FL 33134
Phone: 305.446.3177
Email: [email protected]
As part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Congress intended to reduce the depreciable life of qualified improvement property (“QIP”) from 39 years to 15 years, which would have made it eligible for 100% bonus depreciation. Due to a drafting error, Congress inadvertently omitted the intended change, thereby requiring QIP to be depreciated over 39 years. The CARES Act provides a technical correction to the error by assigning a 15-year depreciable life to QIP, making it eligible for 100% bonus depreciation. The technical correction applies retroactively to January 1, 2018 and applies to nonresidential buildings.
Prior to the technical correction, taxpayers were required to depreciate QIP over a period of almost four decades. The technical correction allows for the QIP to be expensed 100% in the year placed in service, beginning with the 2018 tax year. For example, prior to the correction, a taxpayer who spent $1 million to improve their building would have received a depreciation expense of $25,641 per year (likely even less in the initial year, depending on the month placed in service). The technical correction allows the taxpayer to deduct the full $1 million for that year instead. It is expected that the Treasury Department and IRS will issue procedural guidance regarding the technical correction and how taxpayers may retroactively claim the missed depreciation expense. For now, taxpayers would have to file an amended tax return or file an accounting method change on Form 3115 with their 2019 return to “catch up” the bonus depreciation. Certain partnerships are restricted from amending their tax returns, so filing Form 3115 with their 2019 return may be better option unless another alternative is offered.
A one-year only credit against an employer’s 6.2% share of Social Security payroll taxes for any business that is forced to suspend or close its operations due to COVID-19, but continues paying its employees during the shut-down.
A business is eligible for the credit in either of the following two ways: 1) The operation of the business was fully or partially suspended during any calendar quarter during 2020 due to orders from an appropriate government authority resulting from COVID-19, or 2) The business remained open, but during any quarter in 2020, gross receipts for that quarter were less than 50% of what they were for the same quarter in 2019.
The business will be entitled to a credit for each quarter, until the business has a quarter where it’s recovered sufficiently that its receipts exceed 80% of what they were for the same quarter in the previous year. For each eligible quarter, the business will receive a credit against its 6.2% share of Social Security payroll taxes equal to 50% of the “qualified wages” paid to each employee for that quarter, ending on December 31, 2020.
Seeks to alleviate burden on employers struggling to make payroll by allowing the employer’s share of the 6.2% Social Security Tax that would otherwise be due from the date of enactment through December 31, 2020, to be paid on December 31, 2021 (50%) and December 31, 2022 (50%). Similarly, a self-employed taxpayer can defer paying 50% of his or her self-employment tax that would be due from the date of enactment through the end of 2020 until the end of 2021 (25%) and 2022 (25%).
An employer that incurs its 6.2% share of Social Security tax in 2020 may: 1) defer payment of that until 2021 and 2020, but 2) receive an immediate credit against those yet-to-be-paid payroll taxes via the sum of the emergency medical leave credit, sick leave credit, and new employee retention credit.
Prior to the passing of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) in 2018, businesses and individuals were allowed to carry back losses two years and carry it forward 20 years. The TCJA changed these rules post-2017, eliminating the two year carry back and allowing taxpayers to carry forward the losses indefinitely, limiting the use of the carry forward losses to 80% of taxable income. Given the current events globally and throughout the United States, it is expected many taxpayers will have net operating losses for tax year 2020. Congress has temporary reversed the TCJA provisions for Net Operating Loss Rules in the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Securities Act.
Net Operating Losses from tax years 2018, 2019, and 2020 can now be carried back for five years, or instead, elect to carry forward the loss. In addition, any losses generated for years 2019 and 2020 will be allowed to offset 100% of taxable as opposed to 80% under the prior TCJA law.
CORAL GABLES
255 Alhambra Circle, Suite 560
Coral Gables, FL 33134
Phone: 305.446.3177
Email: [email protected]