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Business Recovery Resource Center
Helping You Navigate Uncertainty and Grow Stronger
As companies adapt to a new business environment, leaders need support and information to recover from disruption and grow stronger. We continue to produce breaking updates on today’s biggest issues and insights to navigate ongoing uncertainty. You’ll also find forward-looking strategies to help you thrive and seize opportunities in this new environment.
Ready to put our adaptation and recovery expertise to work for you? To tap into our help in areas like business sustainability, cashflow forecasting, workforce planning and management and more, please contact your RKL advisor.
Reopening Resources & Info
- Process to Reopen Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 Medical Supply Portals
- COVID-19 PA Hazard Pay Grant
- Recovery Lancaster
- Prepared York
- Reopening Resources for Harrisburg
- Rebuilding Berks
- Restore Chester County
- Businesses & Workplaces: Plan, Prepare & Response
- Guidance for Preparing Workplaces for Coronavirus
- COVID Funding and Programs for PA Businesses
- IRS Coronavirus Tax Relief & Info
- Federal Small Business Guidance & Loan Resources
Webinar Information
Join the RKL team for the latest insights and guidance on navigating today’s uncertainty and growing stronger. A continuation of our popular Coronavirus Webinar Series, you’ll get breaking updates on timely issues, forward-looking strategies for adapting in this new environment and one hour of CPE. Recordings of each webinar will be archived on this page.
Subscribe to receive coronavirus updates and webinar invitations. Let’s walk this journey from disruption to recovery together.
Adapt and Recover: Election Edition – November 6
2020 has been a challenging year as companies and individuals have faced a global pandemic, state shutdowns and reopenings and a looming presidential election that could dramatically alter tax and economic policy for 2021 and beyond. The RKL team has been there to cut through the noise and offer tips for focusing on the most pressing issues.
Hear RKL experts Bethany Novis, Consulting Partner, Eric Wenger, Tax Partner, and Nick Boyer, RKL Wealth Management Chief Investment Officer, discuss the business, tax and economic implications of the upcoming election.
Resources & Insights
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Medicare portion of employer portion of social security tax included in the "Refundable Tax Credit Offsets"?
Yes, per the final bill, the following are employer taxes are included: Section 3111(a) – 6.2% employer portion of social security tax, Section 3221(a) – Railroad retirement payroll taxes, Section 3111(b) – 1.45% Employer portion of Medicare tax.
What does the enactment date mean? Will this be applied retroactively?
The legislation is not retroactive. The provisions will apply on April 1 and they will expire on December 31, 2020.
If the employer is a health care provider or an emergency responder, does the Emergency Sick and Family Leave not apply?
Currently, they are not considered excluded for purposes of qualified employees. The bill does have a section that allows the Secretary of Labor the authority to issue regulations that would exclude this group, however, no such regulations have been issued at this time. Additionally, if regulations are passed, they would allow the employer to elect out, it would not be an automatically exclusion.
