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Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced its boldest effort yet in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic:  that federal workplace safety officials will soon issue a rule that will require all employers with 100 or more employees to either ensure that their workers are vaccinated or require unvaccinated employees to produce a weekly negative test result before coming to work. [...]

As you probably know, in March 2020, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (the "CARES Act"), which included an employee retention tax credit (the "ERTC"). Then, in December 2020, that ERTC was extended into the first two quarters of 2021 by the Consolidated Appropriations Act (the "CAA"). Now, American Rescue Plan Act (the "ARPA"), in [...]

Can I (as the employer) require my employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19? Good question. We’re already vaccinating significant portions of the population. As we continue to march towards having COVID-19 vaccines made available to all of the general public, employers must decide whether to (1) require their employees to have a vaccination; (2) incentivize employees to get vaccinated; [...]

If you are wondering about the expanded Employee Retention Credit (ERC) that was recently made available through the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), we have the following information to consider. This credit is only available for employers that had a full or partial suspension of their business during any calendar quarter of 2020 because of government limiting commerce, travel, or [...]

Distinguished Executive Alumnus of 2020 Award Kurt Larsen Utah State University College of Business Distinguished Executive Alumnus of 2020 Award Hear from Kurt Larsen, recipient of his year’s Distinguished Executive Alumnus Award. An Aggie, Larsen founded Resource Management Inc. (RMI) in 1992 to help small business owners focus more directly on the production side of their company [...]

As you probably know, on August 8, 2020, the President issued a memorandum related to delaying the employee portion of Social Security payroll taxes. Then, on August, 28, the IRS released Notice 2020-65, found here: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-20-65.pdf setting forth some guidance on the President's memorandum. As expected, the Notice announced an optional delay of the due date for the withholding and payment [...]

We hope that you and your employees continue to be safe and healthy during this trying time. To compliment the regular updates on the different legislation that has been passed to assist businesses (and the PPP loan aspect of those in particular), we wanted to reach out again with some additional, and hopefully helpful, information. RMI has worked with [...]

For those of you that have secured a PPP loan through your lender, you may have heard that there are now approved regulations affecting the time period and qualifying costs to be eligible for loan forgiveness. Generally, these appear to be more favorable, meaning that more companies should be able to use the PPP funds for the intended purposes [...]