Self-employed workers can now receive up to 100% forgiveness on PPP loans.
For independent contractors, sole proprietors, and other self-employed workers, you can have eight weeks of your loan proceeds automatically forgiven as salary replacement. This should amount to 75% of your PPP loan, assuming you took the maximum amount available to you when you applied.
However, there is some good news for self-employed individuals who are taxed on business profit. The forgiven amount of the PPP loan is not subject to income tax (or technically a reduction of costs eligible to be expensed for tax purposes) as it was never claimed as a business expense.
Self-employed individuals can use a simplified forgiveness application called Form 3508S. This form applies to you if your loan amount is $150,000 or less. If your loan was for more than $150,000, you can use Form 3508EZ so long as you did not reduce your FTE headcount or salaries and wages by more than 25%.
When it comes to the PPP, your payroll will be limited to the wages that you are taxed on. ... If you've been running payroll manually yourself or with the help of a CPA, so long as you have been remitting payroll taxes, you can use those salaries in your calculation to apply for the PPP.
You can use the PPP funds to pay yourself through what's called owner compensation share or proprietor costs. This is to compensate you for a loss of business income. To take the full amount of owner compensation share, you will have to use a covered period of at least 11 weeks weeks.
The best idea is to open up a new bank account, check your Line 31 OR Line 7 calculation (depending), transfer the entire amount into that separate, new PPP account, and then make ten weekly transfers back to yourself. This shows that you paid yourself over the course of ten weeks or 2.5 months.
Sole proprietorships that received PPP loans are eligible for loan forgiveness consideration. ... To be considered for full forgiveness, borrowers must use at least 60% of their loan proceeds on payroll costs. If you are a sole proprietor, you can still apply for forgiveness regardless of if you have employees or not.
For people who applied early on in the program (i.e. in April 2020 and for a covered period of eight weeks) your deadline to apply for forgiveness is some time in mid-July 2021.
For California purposes, forgiven PPP loans are excluded from gross income.
Under normal circumstances, forgiven loan amounts are generally taxable for federal income tax purposes, but the CARES Act, under section 1106(i) of the act, expressly excludes the forgiveness of PPP loans from federal gross income, and thus federal income tax.
The generosity of Congress extended to tax treatment, by providing in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 that the forgiveness of the PPP loans did not constitute taxable income and that the expenses paid with the borrowed monies would still be tax-deductible.
If you are a sole proprietor or a single member LLC without employees, your payroll can include owner compensation that is up to 2.5 months worth of your Schedule C income or up to $20,833 (whichever is lower).
Self-employed farmers can apply for PPP loan funds based on their 2020 gross income. ... The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was created in the CARES Act in 2020 to provide forgivable loans to small businesses, including farms. Much has been made of the provisions that focus on payroll expenses.
When you do pay yourself, you just write out a check to yourself for the amount of money you want to withdraw from the business and characterize it as owner's equity or a disbursement. Then deposit the check in your personal checking or savings account. Remember, this is “profit” being withdrawn, not a salary.
If the loan is fully forgiven, you are not responsible for any payments. If only a portion of the loan is forgiven or if the PPP loan forgiveness application is denied you must repay any remaining balance due on the loan on or before the maturity date of the loan.
If you got a Paycheck Protection Program loan during the first draw, your deadline for applying for forgiveness is August 30, 2021. The applications for forgiveness are made through your lender or through the PPP Loan Forgiveness Portal opened by the Small Business Administration.
Whether a PPP loan fraud case involves thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions, defendants can receive prison sentences in these cases. If there is evidence of fraud, people can go to jail for a $20,000 PPP loan, just like someone whose PPP loan was $100,000 or $1 million.
Shortly after the passage of the CARES Act, the SBA announced that it would be auditing every borrower with a PPP loan in excess of $2 million. ... In contrast, the SBA established a 90-day timeframe within which they must make a determination concerning whether a borrower's loan may be forgiven.
On each payment due date, we'll automatically debit the amount due from the same bank account your PPP loan funds were deposited into. If you don't apply for forgiveness, repayment will begin 16 months after your loan origination date.
Unlike other SBA loans, PPP loans are designed to be partially or fully forgivable, meaning you won't have to pay them back as long as you follow certain rules. ... Business owners could get their loans forgiven if they used at least 60% of the money to cover payroll costs.
September 7, 2021
It is important to start the process prior to the actual deadline so that you can plan for any unanticipated repayment requirements in case you determine some or all of your loan is not eligible for forgiveness.
For example, a borrower whose 24-week covered period ends on October 30, 2020 has until August 30, 2021 to apply for forgiveness before loan repayment begins.
Borrowers can apply for a Second Draw PPP Loan until March 31, 2021, through any existing SBA 7(a) lender or through any federally insured depository institution, federally insured credit union, eligible non-bank lender, or Farm Credit System institution that is participating in PPP.