Companies may qualify for a Payroll Refund under the ERC Program even if their gross receipts did not decline significantly. Companies may still qualify for ERC even if their revenue increased over the pandemic.
How Do We Qualify for ERC if our Revenue Did Not Go Down?
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Who is an Eligible Employer
Regardless of whether your company had a significant decline in gross receipts or not, if your trade or operations was “more than nominally impacted” (Partially Suspended) by government orders, supply chain disruptions, travel bans, or distancing requirements you may qualify for a Payroll Refund under the ERC Program.
Eligible Employers for the purposes of the Employee Retention Credit are employers that carried on a trade or business during calendar year 2020 or 2021, including tax-exempt organizations, that either:
- Fully or partially suspended operations during a calendar quarter due to orders from an appropriate governmental authority limiting commerce, travel, or group meetings (for commercial, social, religious, or other purposes) due to COVID-19; or
- Experienced a significant decline in gross receipts during a calendar quarter.
Insights & Perspectives
The Eligibility Requirements for both the 2020 ERC Program and 2021 ERC Program are clear. A decline in gross receipts is not required to claim the Payroll Refund from the IRS.
See also the IRS’s “Employee Retention Credit – 2020 vs 2021 Comparison Chart“
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