Posts by Felicia Harris

On Sunday, December 27, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA 2021) was signed into law. A $900 billion emergency relief package is included as part of this omnibus spending bill. It is intended to assist individuals and businesses during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and accompanying economic crisis. Major relief provisions are summarized here, as well as some additional tax provisions.

The new COVID-19 Bill has many benefits for small businesses and organizations.

As COVID-19 vaccines become available, employers have the option to create a mandatory vaccinations policy or a voluntary vaccinations policy, so long as their vaccination policies have certain exceptions, are job-related and consistent with business necessity.

Market turbulence in 2020 may have wreaked havoc on your investment goals for the year. It probably also highlighted the importance of periodically reviewing your investment portfolio to determine whether adjustments are needed to keep it on track. Now is a good time to take on these five year-end investment tasks.

Here are some things to consider as you weigh potential tax moves before the end of the year.

To assist borrowers in completing their application for PPP loan forgiveness, the SBA has introduced an EZ loan forgiveness application.

This bill modifies provisions related to the forgiveness of loans made to small businesses under the Paycheck Protection Program implemented in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).

Workshare is good for employers, employees, and states. WorkShare is a program that permits employers to maintain operational productivity during declines in regular business activity instead of laying off workers.

OSHA's guidance, effective May 26, is a change from the agency's position in April 10 guidance that only employers in the health care industry, emergency response organizations, and correctional institutions would be required to mandate work-relatedness determinations about coronavirus, with some exceptions.