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IR-2021-242, December 6, 2021 — The Internal Revenue Service today issued guidance for employers regarding the retroactive termination of the Employee Retention Credit.

Letter 106-C, Claim Partially Disallowed, is your legal notice that we partially disallowed, or denied, your claim for the tax period stated in the letter.

Information about Form 5884-A, Employee Retention Credit for Employers Affected by Qualified Disasters, including recent updates, related forms and instructions on how to file.

Tax Tip 2024-49, May 15, 2024 — Some unscrupulous promoters have misrepresented eligibility rules for the Employee Retention Credit, luring well-intentioned businesses to claim the credit when they don’t qualify. The IRS is highlighting seven suspicious signs and urging businesses to seek a trusted tax professional to resolve an incorrect claim if they need to.

Tax Tip 2024-72, Aug. 26, 2024 — The IRS recently shared five new warning signs of incorrect claims by businesses for the Employee Retention Credit.

COVID Tax Tip 2022-170, November 7, 2022 — Employers should be wary of third parties advising them to claim the employee retention credit when they may not qualify. Some third parties are taking improper positions related to taxpayer eligibility for and computation of the credit.

IR-2023-132, July 21, 2023 — The Internal Revenue Service will hold a free webinar designed to help employers, tax professionals and other interested taxpayers understand how the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) works and how to avoid tax scams and aggressive marketing related to the credit.

IR-2022-89, April 18, 2022 — The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service have received requests from taxpayers and their advisors for relief from penalties arising when additional income tax is owed because the deduction for qualified wages is reduced by the amount of a retroactively claimed employee retention tax credit (ERTC), but the taxpayer is unable to pay the additional income tax because the ERTC refund payment has not yet been received.

Jan. 22, 2025 — Earlier today, at the federal court in Central Islip, an indictment was unsealed charging Keith Williams, Janine Davis, Morais Dicks, James Hames, Jr., Jamari Lewis, Ewendra Mathurin, and Tiffany Williams with conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud, and aiding and assisting the preparation of false tax returns. Six defendants were arrested this morning in New York and will be arraigned this afternoon before United States District Judge Gary R. Brown. Jamari Lewis is not in custody and will be arraigned in the Eastern District of New York at a later date.

Jan. 10, 2024 — IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel today updated the Senate Finance Committee on the agency’s efforts to protect honest taxpayers and combat fraud in the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) program.