The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) was signed into law on March 18th 2020, and went into effect on Wednesday, April 1st. The FFCRA requires covered employers to provide their employees with paid sick leave or expanded family and medical leave for specified reasons related to COVID-19. At DHA, [...]

The U.S. Treasury Department released information on the assistance available for small businesses through the recently enacted CARES Act. Small businesses and sole proprietorships affected by the COVID-19 pandemic can apply for loans under the Paycheck Protection Program starting April 3. Independent contractors and self-employed individuals can apply starting April [...]

To help people facing the challenges of COVID-19 issues, the Internal Revenue Service has announced a sweeping series of steps to assist taxpayers by providing relief on a variety of issues ranging from easing payment guidelines to postponing compliance actions.  These new changes include issues ranging from postponing certain payments [...]

Please note: This blog post supersedes previous blog posts on this topic and the email sent to our clients on 3.20.20 announcing the changes to the filing deadline.  Additional details and changes have since been issued, particularly for Minnesota, those updates are reflected in this post.  We apologize for any [...]

Governor Walz has issued Executive Order 20-20, directing Minnesotans to limit movements outside of their homes beyond essential needs from March 27 at 11:59 p.m. to April 10 at 5:00 p.m. We understand that you may have questions about how this will impact your business. The resources below will help [...]

Following Executive Order 20-15, the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) has established a loan program to assist small businesses affected by Executive Orders 20-04 and 20-08 following the COVID-19 pandemic. Small businesses are a vital part of Minnesota’s economy and this program will provide a source of working capital to help [...]

Online applications for these loans are now open to Minnesota businesses at: https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela/ See our previous blog post SBA Coronavirus Disaster Loans - Get Ready to Apply for forms and documents you'll need to complete your application Here are a few more details about the SBA loans: This program can [...]

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) was signed into law on March 18th 2020, and generally requires employers with less than 500 employees to provide a certain amount of paid sick and paid leave to employees affected b y COVID-19, and provides affected employers with a corresponding employment tax [...]

We have just received word that Minnesota will likely be approved as a Eligible Disaster Area for the SBA Coronavirus (COVID-19) loans.  The application process isn't live yet, but we expect approval over the weekend and applications to be open early next week. *As of Saturday, March 21st, the application [...]

Following the announcement of planned relief related to April 15 tax filings by the Treasury Secretary over a week ago, the IRS has now formally released the details of such relief. In the daily session discussing COVID-19 developments given each day by the Vice-President’s task force on March 17, 2020, [...]