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   It's a credit associated with employment taxes, but it's based on wages you paid to your employees, so it's essentially rewarding you as an employer for keeping your people paid throughout the pandemic.    Established by the CARES Act, the ERC is a refundable tax credit – a grant, not a loan – that a business can claim even if they had to shut down business permanently. The Employee Retention Credit Tax is readily available to both small and mid-sized businesses and is based on qualified incomes and healthcare paid to employees.   Qualifying businesses can make the most of the following offerings: - Approximately $26,000 per employee - Available for 2020 and the very first 3 quarters of 2021 - Qualify with decreased profits or COVID event - No limit on funding - Employee Retention Credit (ERC) is a refundable tax credit   The ERC has actually gone through a number of changes and has many technical details, consisting of how to determine qualified wages, which employees ...

   The employee retention credit (ERC) helps employers retain their employees and offset the cost of providing health care benefits during these difficult economic times. The ERC is a refundable tax credit against certain employment taxes equal to 50% of qualified wages paid from March 13, 2020 through December 31, 2020. Qualified wages are limited to $10,000 for each employee for all calendar quarters. Eligible employers can claim the ERC on Form 941 when filing their quarterly employment tax returns. Employers must have experienced either:   • A full or partial suspension of operations due to an order from an appropriate governmental authority limiting commerce, travel or group meetings due to COVID-19; or • A significant decline in gross receipts compared to the same quarter in the prior year. To be eligible for the ERC, employers must claim an employer portion of Social Security tax on wages paid after March 12, 2020 and before January 1, 2021. The credit is available for both f...