The time to apply for PPP Forgiveness is now. If you received your funds prior to June 5th, you now have the option of following either an 8 week timeline or a 24 week timeline. If you received your funds after June 5th, you are on a 24 week timeline. Your “time clock” starts the day your loan proceeds are received. It is very important to comply with the CARES ACT provisions that cover proper use and timing of funds to obtain loan forgiveness.
Find a number of tools that will help you in navigating the loan forgiveness process.
Download Forgiveness Application forms here. All forms are current from the SBA as of October 8, 2020 and reflect changes provided in the PPP Flexibility ACT of 2020.
Form 3508 Revised Loan Forgiveness Application
Form 3508 Revised Loan Forgiveness Application Instructions
Form 3508EZ Forgiveness Application
Form 3508EZ Forgiveness Application Instructions
Form 3508S Simplified Forgiveness Application (for Loan Amounts Below $50,000)
Updated October 15, 2020
I unpacked some of the details around the PPP Loan Forgiveness Application. Watch it again here.
Both the House and the Senate have now passed the PPP Flexibility Act which makes changes to the Payroll Protection Program. Check out this 4 minute update to learn whats changing and stay current.
Here is a tracking spreadsheet that will assist you with forecasting, tracking and summarizing your expenses paid from the PPP Loan funds. Make sure to utilize the Forecast tab and enter your expected qualified expenses over the 8-week period following the loan disbursement. This will help you plan and time expenses that need to be paid.
Also included is the Support Needed tab, which lists items your bank may potentially request for loan forgiveness. Additional guidance will be coming from the SBA so stay tuned.
This spreadsheet was provided by an SBA approved lender. They have given permission to share. There are two versions. 8 Week and 24 Week versions.
This tool will help you in the forgiveness application process. You may want to check with your lending institution as to whether they will accept it. It makes it much easier to calculate Full Time Equivalency (FTE) for your team as well as possible penalties for wage reduction.
Click the image for the version desired.
In order to be eligible for forgiveness, PPP funds can only be used for the following items.
Payroll, including eligible benefits. These are group medical, dental, retirement, paid sick or family leave, state UC.
Individual compensation limited to $100,000 annual rate which is $15,385 for the 8-week period or $46,154 for the 24 week period. Business owners are capped at $15,384 for the 8 week period or $20,833 for the 24 week period. Eligible benefits for those individuals can be included in addition to these numbers.
Rent or leases in effect as of Feb 15th, 2020
Interest on loans that were in place as of February 15th, 2020. This is limited to mortgage loans and personal property loans that contain liens on your property. For example, your building or warehouse, or your trucks that are being held as collateral on the truck loan.
Utilities include electricity, water, gas, transportation, telephone and internet.
The key questions tend to come in around transportation and telephones. Telephones include land lines and cell phones. transportation includes gas for your company owned vehicles used to conduct your business.
A clarification of this is found in the Federal Register Vol. 85, No 76, Page 21479. I have highlighted that section here.
First, it’s important to remember that forgiveness of this loan is not automatic. You must request it from your bank.
60% of loan funds MUST be used for Payroll and Benefits
If you don’t maintain the level of Full-time Equivalent (FTE) employees, as compared to a testing period, your forgiveness amount will be reduced UNLESS your employees were laid off between February 15th and April 26th AND you restored your full FTEs by December 31, 2020 (the RE-HIRE EXEMPTION – Changed from June 30th with the PPP Flexibility Act).
Much guidance in this area still needs to be addressed by the SBA. Please stay tuned.
Pay rates cannot be reduced by more than 25% for any employee making less than $100,000.
Any funds not forgiven become a 5-year loan with an interest rate of 1%. Payments are deferred for the first six months although interest will accrue. Therefore, the total loan is actually paid over an 54-month period. Be sure to consider the terms and payment amounts required on any loan balance not forgiven.
Managing your cash through this pandemic is critical to the success of your business. We have created a simple tool that you can use to project your cashflow for the months ahead. This simple tool is not intended to replace anything you are doing with your accounting. It is a way to micromanage cashflow over the coming weeks and months.
Click on the graphic below to download the Cashflow Projector Tool.
Need to see how it works? Watch this.
There has never been a more important time to know what it costs you to run your business that right now.
You’ll learn exactly what you have to charge per hour to cover costs while generating the profits you want. You’ll create departmental cash flow budgets, set proper maintenance agreement pricing, and learn to bid jobs for profit based on your cost of doing business.
During this program, we unpack the EIDL and PPP programs and show you how they can benefit your company as well as what you need to know as you apply for them.
Great leaders are not afraid of great crises. Crises create opportunities to think outside the box to come out of the situation stronger and more profitable. This presentation is a conversation between Bill Kinnard, President of Grandy & Associates and Jay Owen, president of Design Extensions. You will find the conversation both encouraging and enlightening.
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