Filling Out Form 941-X Complete the required fields, including your EIN, the quarter you are filing for, company name, and year. Gather your 941, payroll log, and a blank 941-X for every quarter you are filing for. For each quarter, select the appropriate calendar year and the date for the portion you are amending.
Some businesses that submitted claims for the Employee Retention Tax Credit have reported waiting anywhere from four to twelve months for their ERC refunds. In some cases, the delay in receiving their expected refund has been even longer.
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Companies with 500 or fewer employees can count everyone on the payroll (regardless of whether or not they worked during the pandemic) for up to 10,000 dollars in wages for all of 2020 and up to 10,000 dollars in wages per quarter for the first three quarters of 2021. The ERC covers 70 percent of eligible wages.
Credit amount The total ERC benefit per employee can be up to $26,000 ($5,000 in 2020 and $7,000 per quarter in 2021).
Going forward, the only way to apply for the ERC is to file an amended Form 941X (Quarterly Federal Payroll Tax Return) for the quarters during which the company was an eligible employer.
Calculating credits for 2021 The ERC applies only to the first three financial quarters of 2021, and the eligible wages for each of these quarters are calculated at 70%. As such, the credit per employee per quarter maxes out at $7,000.