IRS ERC Voluntary Disclosures Program Cherry Bekaert: The Tax Beat

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has taken several steps to tackle the millions of invalid Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claims. First, they temporarily halted all ERC claims until the beginning of 2024. Two new programs were introduced by the IRS to aid employers who may have filed ERC claims they didn’t qualify for without realizing it.The IRS announced the Voluntary Disclosure Program (VDP) on December 21, 2023, to aid employers who filed invalid ERC claims. The IRS created the VDP to ...