The City of Myrtle Beach has passed an emergency ordinance requiring face masks in public, which will go into effect just in time for the busy July 4 holiday weekend. Myrtle Beach approves requiring face masks in public places The council approved the measure Thursday morning. It triggers at 12 a.m. Friday morning, the day [...]
Got a vacation home? There’s a big tax break if you rent it out—but a potential hit if you sell. First, the break: Long-standing rules allow owners of vacation homes to rent out their cottages or condos, pocket the rent checks and completely sidestep taxes on the rental income. I’ll use owner Olivia to illustrate [...]
June 19, 2020 Board Approves Budget Today, the University of South Carolina’s Board of Trustees approved the University's budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year, which includes freezing tuition system wide while implementing a series of cost-saving measures to prepare for the impact of COVID-19. “The budget outlook before us is more serious than any the university [...]
Pausing business operations may have stretched companies in 2020, but reopening is proving challenging in its own right. Public health leaders, governments, and businesses are considering phased reopening as their countries pass peaks of COVID-19’s initial wave, but 44% of businesses polled in a Gartner survey were unsure how a return to work will play [...]
Treasury and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) released new Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) guidance Friday night that provided some clarity on several loan forgiveness questions but didn’t address the two parts of PPP that arguably have generated the most concerns among the millions of small businesses and other entities that have received funding. Two [...]
The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic came so quickly and hit so hard that companies worldwide are trying to stabilise their business to the point where they can recover. When Deloitte surveyed CEOs, senior managers, and HR leaders in China, which was affected by the coronavirus first, 66% said they were unable to serve [...]
The IRS announced Friday that time is running out for taxpayers to go to the Get My Payment website to enter their direct deposit information in order to receive an electronic economic impact payment (IR-2020-92). Taxpayers must enter their bank account information, if needed, by noon on Wednesday, May 13. After that date, any stimulus payments that [...]
The IRS released guidance (Notice 2020-32) to explain that a taxpayer that receives a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is not permitted to deduct expenses that are normally deductible under the Code, to the extent the expenses were reimbursed by a PPP loan that was then forgiven. The PPP was created by Section [...]
The IRS will start recalling “certain employees in mission-critical functions” to agency offices starting Monday, though it is urging them to bring their own face masks and suggesting the employees can make them out of t-shirts or bandanas, according to an internal memo circulated Saturday by two lawmakers. Tony Reardon, who heads the National Treasury Employees [...]
Companies that are preparing to reopen in the coming weeks still need to be in "survival mode" if they want to outlast the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. That's according to Marilyn Landis, CEO of Basic Business Concepts, which provides CFO services to small companies. Landis spoke at the National Small Business Town Hall, a live webinar hosted by Inc. and the [...]