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On November 18, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service released Revenue Procedures 2021-48, 2021-49, and 2021-50 to provide flexibility for the tax treatment of the tax-exempt income arising from forgiveness of a loan made by the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) pursuant to the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”). Revenue Procedure 2021-48 provides […]

According to a December 9, 2021 posting on the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force’s website, the Office of Management and Budget issued guidance[1] related to its enforcement of the federal contractor vaccine mandate.  This guidance comes two days after a federal court in Georgia issued a nationwide preliminary injunction halting […]

In a continuing trend of court orders halting the Biden administration’s broad plans to mandate COVID-19 vaccines, the latest blow comes in the form of a nationwide block to stop enforcement of vaccine mandates against certain federal contractors and subcontractors. Last week, a Kentucky federal district court issued a preliminary […]

This week has brought several blows to the Biden administration’s broad plans to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for healthcare institutions and now, federal contractors in certain states.  Specifically with regard to federal contractors, on November 30, 2021, a Kentucky federal district court issued a preliminary injunction halting the Biden administration from […]

The Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for health care staff has hit yet another stumbling block.  On November 30, 2021, a Louisiana federal court issued a preliminary injunction nationwide to halt the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Interim Final Rule (IFR), which required COVID-19 vaccination for covered health care staff by […]