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Presidential Memorandum Tax Relief

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

IRS Issues Guidance on Presidential Memorandum Payroll Tax Deferral Opportunity

President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum on August 8, 2020, directing the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury to use his authority to defer the "withholding, deposit and payment of certain tax obligations." This includes...more

Morgan Lewis

IRS Notice 2020-65 Provides Guidance on Deferring Employee Social Security Taxes

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The US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service have issued guidance with respect to US President Donald Trump’s August 8, 2020 Memorandum on Deferring Payroll Tax Obligations in Light of the Ongoing...more

Snell & Wilmer

Payroll Tax Deferral – What The Treasury Guidance Did And Did Not Make Clear

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To assist employees with the economic hardships resulting from COVID-19, recent guidance provides relief in the form of a payroll tax deferral (Deferral Program). Internal Revenue Service Notice 2020-65 (Notice)1 provides...more

Blank Rome LLP

Deferral of Employee Social Security Taxes Not Even a Good Idea on Paper

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In a Memorandum to the Secretary of the Treasury, President Trump directed that the Secretary use his authority to defer the withholding and payment of the employee’s share of certain Social Security taxes for the period...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

IRS Provides Guidance on Payroll Tax Deferral

On August 8, 2020, President Trump issued a Memorandum on Deferring Payroll Tax Obligations in Light of the Ongoing COVID-19 Disaster (the Memo). The Memo generally provided that employers could defer payment of the...more

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and...

Should Employers Stop Withholding Employees’ Share of Social Security Tax in September? (Part 1)

The title’s question is triggered by a Presidential Memorandum issued on August 8, 2020 (the “Memo”) directing the Secretary of the Treasury to defer Social Security taxes for certain employees....more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

President Orders That Withholding Of SS Taxes Be Deferred, But There Are Details To Be Ironed Out

On August 8, President Trump issued a Memorandum deferring payroll tax obligations due to COVID-19. The Memorandum directs the Secretary of the Treasury to defer the withholding, deposit, and payment of the 6.2 percent...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Social Security Taxes Could Be Deferred for the Rest of 2020

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Under the CARES Act passed on March 27, 2020, Congress allowed employers and self-employed workers to defer payment of their portion of Social Security taxes that will accrue between March 27 and December 31, 2020. Fifty...more

Burr & Forman

Employee Payroll Tax Deferral—What Could Go Wrong?

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In March, Congress passed the Coronavirus, Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) to aid businesses and individuals. One CARES Act relief provision offered the deferral of certain payroll taxes. In particular,...more

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