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President Trump’s executive order (EO) “Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness,” issued March 7, 2025, sets limits on student loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PLSF) program. But the language used...more
The idea of student loan forgiveness has caught the attention of many borrowers and sparked lots of discussions. If you're wondering how this might affect your taxes, you're not alone. It's important to know the rules and...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of September 19, 2022 – September 23, 2022....more
As reported late last year, the IRS announced in Notice 2022-1 (Notice) that lenders are not required to, and should not, issue IRS Forms 1099-C when certain student loan debts are forgiven. The Notice was in response to...more
The Biden administration announced several student loan debt relief measures on August 24, 2022, including an extended loan repayment moratorium through December 31, 2022, and debt cancellation that will be available...more
The Internal Revenue Service issues three Revenue Procedures detailing how taxpayers can account for tax-exempt cancellation of indebtedness income arising from forgiven Paycheck Protection Program loans in their Federal tax...more
The IRS recently released a trio of Revenue Procedures - 2021-48, 2021-49, and 2021-50 - related to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which has been the subject of a number of our previous legal alerts. Some alerts can...more
On December 27, the President signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. The Act includes a roughly $900 billion COVID-19 relief package, known as the “Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits and...more
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA, 2021) was signed by President Biden on March 11, 2021 to address the continuing economic impact on employers and employees the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has posed. The ARPA...more
The CARES Act created the Paycheck Protection Program. The PPP allowed businesses to secure forgivable SBA loans. Federal taxation of forgiven loans and related expenses are quite favorable - will states follow suit? Matt...more
Maine Governor Janet Mills submitted a supplemental budget, as amended by a change package submitted on January 25, 2021. The supplemental budget is notable for its retroactive conformity to the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) as...more
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has released updated Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) interim final rules which implement and provide additional guidance on the new PPP provisions contained in the Economic Aid to...more
When debt is forgiven, as much of the funding lent through the CARES Act’s PPP may be, a lender may be required to file IRS Form 1099-C with the IRS and to furnish a copy to the borrower. As a lender, do I need to file the...more
Loans under the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) are eligible for forgiveness depending upon whether and when the loan proceeds are used for qualified business expenses. One of the benefits of this program is that there is no...more
On November 18, 2020, in Rev. Rul. 2020-27, the IRS reaffirmed its position that deductions for eligible expenses will be disallowed if a PPP loan is forgiven and extended the rule to deny deductions paid or incurred in a...more
On November 18, the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department issued updated guidance on the tax deductibility of business expenses paid for with loan proceeds from the CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). In...more
Under the CARES Act, PPP loans given to affected borrowers were potentially eligible for forgiveness without cancellation of indebtedness income. To qualify, an affected borrower must certify that (i) “the uncertainty of...more
Introducing Nossaman's Employment BUZZ webinar series! Each month, our attorneys will cover a different topic of interest to employers, including tax, insurance, intellectual property and employment issues. These "quick hit"...more
A central feature of the CARES Act, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), provided a lifeline to a multitude of small businesses during the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic. PPP loans were used to cover payroll...more
On April 24, 2020, President Trump signed the Paycheck Protection Program and Healthcare Enhancement Act (PPP Enhancement Act), adding an additional $310 billion to the previously exhausted $349 billion in funds allotted for...more
The Small Business Administration reports that as of May 23 it still had nearly $150 billion of untapped Paycheck Protection Program funds. The Program has been underutilized by self-employed business owners, in part due to...more
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or the CARES Act, was signed into law by President Trump on March 27, 2020. One of the key economic aid provisions for businesses contained in the Act was the Paycheck...more
Last week, we reported that the IRS issued Notice 2020-32, wherein (relying primarily on Code Section 265) it emphatically pronounced that taxpayers receiving Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loans do not get to have their...more
On April 30, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued Notice 2020-32 (the “Notice”) in which it substantially changed the common understanding of the tax consequences of Payroll Protection Program (“PPP”) loan...more