Back in March of 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act provided two provisions to help taxpayers with the economic challenges that they were facing due to the COVID-19 pandemic - the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the employee retention credit (ERC). Under the CARES Act, the ERC could not be claimed if an employer had already received a PPP loan.
However, with the enactment of the Consolidation Appropriations Act, 2021, the recent legislation substantially modified the