Internal Revenue Service Warns Small Businesses of COVID Tax Credit Scam
Released: Apr 17, 2024 by Shawn Hessinger In Small Business News 1If a telemarketer informs you, the Internal Revenue Service owes your small company thousands. Beware! You might discover it too great to be real.The IRS states business call small companies informing them to make an application for something called the Employee Retention Tax Credit."Scammers and unethical promoters continue to run aggressive broadcast marketing, direct-mail advertising solicitations and online promos for the credit," the IRS cautioned in a memo in 2015. "Many of these advertisements extremely misrepresent and overemphasize who can get approved for the ERC, which is often likewise called ERTC or the Employee Retention Tax Credit."Obviously, the Employee Retention Tax Credit actually exists. The federal gover...