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Complete the Pre-Qualification Form

Complete our pre-qualification form and provide us with details about your business. It won’t take long, only five minutes or so, and we can use this information to decide if you’re eligible for a tax refund.

Provide Your Documentation

If you think you may be eligible for a tax refund, we need you to offer some basic paperwork from your business so our associated tax specialists can thoroughly analyze qualification, determine the refund amount that you’re due, and get ready the documents required to acquire that refund.

Sign & Return Your Documents

We’ll send the documents to you either by email or via UPS. After you have looked them over, you can scan and email them back to us or use the pre-addressed, stamped envelope we give you and send them in the post.

Receive Your Cash Refund

The federal government is offering up to $26k per employee in direct refunds. All you have to do is submit the necessary documents and the government will review them. Soon after, you will receive a check with your refund amount. It’s that simple!

ERC Calculator

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FAQs

Frequently asked questions

The program started on March 13th, 2020 and concludes on September 30th, 2021 for qualified employers. Applications for reimbursement for 2020 and 2021 can be submitted after December 31st of this year and may extend into 2022, 2023, and possibly beyond.

Unfortunately no. This program is only for companies who paid W2 wages to non-owners.

It doesn’t matter, because this is not a loan – it’s a tax credit. There are no credit checks, collateral, or personal guarantees required.

Yes. Under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, businesses can now qualify for the ERC even if they already received a PPP loan. Note, though, that the ERC will only apply to wages not used for the PPP.

Your business qualifies for the ERC, if it falls under one of the following:

  1. A government authority required partial or full shutdown of your business during 2020 or 2021. This includes your operations being limited by commerce, inability to travel or restrictions of group meetings.
  2. Gross receipt reduction criteria is different for 2020 and 2021, but is measured against the current quarter as compared to 2019 pre-COVID amounts.

Yes. To qualify, your business must meet either one of the following criteria:

  1. Experienced a decline in gross receipts by 20%, or
  2. Had to change business operations due to government orders
  3. Many items are considered as changes in business operations, including shifts in job roles and the purchase of extra protective equipment.

Your CPA may not be aware of this legislation or may not be current on the latest updates regarding your company’s eligibility for the ERC, so they didn’t think to bring it to your attention. An ERC originator like Innovation Refunds will have the knowledge to walk you through each step of the ERC application process.