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title: Additional COVID-19 Relief Package Arrives Just in Time for the Holidays
description: Congress has passed the 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which provides a new round of relief for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Here are the details.
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# **Additional COVID-19 Relief Package Arrives Just in Time for the Holidays**
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**UPDATE:** **Averting a government shutdown, President Trump signed the COVID-19 relief bill into law Sunday night, December 27th. The bill was signed as is, with no changes made. However, President Trump has encouraged the Senate to consider legislation to increase individual stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000.**
**We will continue to keep you updated with any further clarification or changes. We hope you and yours have a wonderful and safe last week of 2020!**
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It only took nine months after the first relief act was passed for Congress to agree to work together and help the American people once more. Just in time for the holidays, they have passed the 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which provides a new round of relief for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The bill includes several extensions of popular provisions from earlier coronavirus relief and stimulus bills passed in 2020.
From a tax standpoint, few new provisions are providing new forms of stimulus and relief. However, several small changes are made to provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act while also extending them beyond their initial expiration date. It does include another round of direct payments to taxpayers, extensions of the charitable contribution provisions and employee retention tax credit, and a clarification of the treatment of business expenses for small businesses with forgiven PPP loans. The bill also includes an extension of popular individual and business tax breaks scheduled to expire at the end of 2020.
This bill is massive and takes over 5,500 pages to address all the provisions. In fact, it’s the second-largest bill by page count ever. Below are some of the highlights of the bill — areas we feel are the most relevant.
### **Congress Passes $900 Billion COVID-19 Relief Bill — Here’s What’s in It**
**Direct Stimulus Payments**
**PPP Loan — Expenses paid with the original PPP funds can now be deducted!**
**PPP Loan — Round 2! (PPP2)**
**PPP Loan – Simplified forgiveness application for loans of $150,000 or less**
**Unemployment Insurance**
**Extension of the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERC)**
**Full business meal deductions are permitted in 2021 and 2022.**
**Changes to Charitable Contributions**
**Extension of Certain Tax Provisions That Were Set to Expire at the End of 2020**
### We Will Continue to Monitor This Bill and Keep You Updated along the Way
While we hoped this would be a summary article, you can see from above it turned out to be quite lengthy. We will continue to monitor this bill and be available to answer questions as they come up for you — and do our best to be your continued resource for financial news during this terrible pandemic.
We hope that some of these provisions will bring some extra relief to you and your business as we finally close the book on 2020 and look forward to a brighter 2021!
As always, MGA is doing its best for you to ***make the complex simple***. We wish the best to you and yours in this holiday season.
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December 22, 2020
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