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Tax,
Labor/Employment

May 8, 2020

Can you write off salaries paid with Paycheck Protection loans?

The federal Paycheck Protection Program was meant to help small businesses keep their employees on payroll, and to pay utilities, rent, interest, health insurance and pension contributions.

Robert W. Wood

Managing Partner
Wood LLP

333 Sacramento St
San Francisco , California 94111-3601

Phone: (415) 834-0113

Fax: (415) 789-4540

Email: wood@WoodLLP.com

Univ of Chicago Law School

Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.

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The federal Paycheck Protection Program was meant to help small businesses keep their employees on payroll, and to pay utilities, rent, interest, health insurance and pension contributions. The PPP loan maximum is generally 2.5 times the monthly average for a business's last 12 months (or 2019) expenses for payroll, health insurance and pension contributions. A key allure of the program is that the loan can be forgiven under certain conditions.

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