The IRS has announced a new Employee Retention Credit (ERC) Voluntary Disclosure Program, under which eligible taxpayers can repay only 80% of the gross amount of credit erroneously claimed, while retaining the remaining 20%. (IRS Announcement 2024-3)
Taxpayers that want to participate in the Voluntary Disclosure Program must file Form 15434, Application for Employee Retention Credit Voluntary Disclosure Program, on or before 11:59 pm local time March 22, 2024. Form 15434 must be submitted to the IRS through its Document Upload Tool at:
www.irs.gov/help/irs-document-upload-tool
Eligible taxpayers must meet all four of the following requirements:
- The taxpayer cannot be under criminal investigation and they cannot have been notified that the IRS intends to commence a criminal investigation;
- The IRS has not received information from a third party alerting the IRS to the participant’s noncompliance, nor has the IRS acquired information directly related to the noncompliance from an enforcement action;
- The taxpayer is not under an employment tax examination by the IRS for any tax period for which the taxpayer is applying for the ERC Voluntary Disclosure Program; and
- The taxpayer has not previously received a notice and demand for repayment of all or part of the claimed ERC.
Taxpayers whose ERC claims were filed by third-party payers, such as an agent or a professional employer organization, must apply for the Voluntary Disclosure Program through the third-party payer.
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