Say Goodbye to the ERC for the Fourth Quarter

Parts of this article are published with permission from Bradford Tax Institute, © 2021 Daniel Morris, Morris + D’Angelo Regarding the Employee Retention Credit (ERC): lawmakers giveth, and lawmakers taketh away. In this case, what lawmakers did is unfortunate. It’s like magic: now you see it, now you don’t. On March 11, 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 became Public Law 117-2. This new law extended the ERC to the third and fourth quarters of 2021, as we wrote about in Don’t Miss Out on the Employee Retention Credit (August 2021). On November 15, 2021, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act became Public Law 117-58 and ...