The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 44 - A Recipe for Litigation: The Simmering Conflict Surrounding ERC Claims
Inflation Reduction Act Tax Trends Begin to Take Shape
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 28 - Under the Microscope: Examining the Future of the ERC
The Capacity Crunch, Part Three: Unpacking the Power of the IRA: The Potential Game-Changing Opportunities for Utilities
Employee Retention Tax Credit: Post COVID Updates for Healthcare Practices
Analyzing the Impact of the IRA on Energy Storage — Battery + Storage Podcast
The Challenges and Opportunities of Interconnection and Transmission of Renewable Energy
Tax Issues for Co-location of Energy Storage with Solar or Wind
The State of Energy Storage: What You Need to Know
Optimizing Investments in Energy Storage
Value Creation in the Transferable Tax Market
How Nonprofits Can Use New Markets Tax Credits To Achieve Financial Goals
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 20 - Pitfalls and Perils: Employee Retention Credit Enforcement Trends
EV Tech Series: The Inflation Reduction Act’s Impact on the Energy Industry With Judy Kwok and Marc Machlin - Battery + Storage Podcast
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 4 - Understanding the Employee Retention Credit
R&D Tax Credit: What Healthcare Professionals Should Know
CCUS: Understanding The Class VI Permitting Process
Navigating the Nuances of the COBRA Subsidy Under the American Rescue Plan Act
Health Care Practices: Can They Seek Employee Retention Credits Based on Harm Caused By COVID-19?
A Discussion on Environmental Commodities with Bill Flederbach, President and CEO at ClimeCo
Congress ended a busy work period after passing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) last week. This Holland & Knight alert summarizes the healthcare provisions in the IRA and provides an outlook on health policy issues that may...more
Employers and plans are reminded that they must provide a COBRA subsidy expiration notice no later than September 15, 2021, pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA). ARPA had included some new COBRA obligations...more
On August 13, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued updated guidance on mitigating and preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. OSHA’s latest guidance is...more
The federal Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced that certain employers can claim federal tax credits when employees use emergency paid leave to accompany an individual to obtain a COVID-19 vaccination and/or to care...more
On May 18, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released much-anticipated guidance on premium subsidies for continuation coverage under Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) provided by the...more
The Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2021-31, providing the much-anticipated guidance plan sponsors, multiemployer plans, and COBRA administrators have been waiting for related to the COBRA subsidy provisions under the...more
On May 18, 2021, the IRS issued the long- awaited guidance on the COBRA subsidy and premium assistance credit available under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 through eighty-six questions and answers....more
As anticipated, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2021-31 (the Notice) yesterday, providing important guidance to employers and plan administrators regarding their COBRA subsidy-related obligations under the...more
Employers, if you had employees who had been on your group health plan who were involuntarily terminated or whose hours were reduced as early as November 1, 2019, read this! If those employees became eligible for COBRA and...more
On May 18, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2021-31 which contains much anticipated guidance needed to implement the COBRA subsidy provisions included in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA)....more
On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), which subsidizes fully paid post-employment healthcare coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA)...more
The COBRA subsidy period (April 1, 2021 – September 30, 2021) has begun and with a number of issues still outstanding, employers have no time to lose when it comes to preparing to administer the COBRA subsidy required by the...more
Notice To Employers And Group Health Plans – New COBRA Continuation Coverage Obligations And Premium Subsidies Under The American Rescue Plan Act Of 2021....more
On March 11, 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the “ARPA”) was signed into law. Under Section 9501 of ARPA, employers will be required to provide a tax-free subsidy to certain employees and their qualified...more
In new guidance, the IRS confirms that non-federal government employers may now be able to claim a tax credit to cover the cost of voluntarily providing paid sick and family leave to employees for COVID-19 related reasons....more
In an attempt to boost the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination rate, President Joe Biden announced yesterday that small- and medium-sized employers offering vaccine-related paid leave will be eligible for a significant tax credit....more
On April 21, 2021, the Biden administration detailed the provision of tax credits for certain businesses that pay employees for time off to get COVID-19 vaccines or due to vaccine side effects. ...more
Marking the occasion of the 200 millionth COVID-19 vaccine shot administered, President Joe Biden called on employers to provide paid time off to employees to get vaccinated and touted the federal government’s tax credit for...more
Employers should be busy preparing tailored COBRA continuation coverage notices for certain individuals, addressing complicated election and altered COBRA premium topics that took effect only in recent weeks. Below, we offer...more
On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) into law. Under ARPA, certain employees and their dependents who lost group health coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the...more
As described in our March 15, 2021 update, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the “Act”) created a temporary, 100% subsidy for assistance-eligible individuals’ premium payments for continuation health care coverage under...more
President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”) into law on March 11, 2021. Provided here is an overview of the key features that affect employers....more
One of President Biden’s initial signature pieces of legislation - The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 - creates a significant number of changes to or continuations of programs that were available to both businesses and...more
As we described in our March 15, 2021 LawFlash, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) includes a 100% COBRA premium subsidy for any employee or dependent who is a COBRA qualified beneficiary ...more
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), signed into law last month, requires employers to provide subsidized COBRA coverage to employees who qualify for and elect COBRA continuation coverage due to either a reduction in hours or...more