The Employee Retention Credit, codified at IRC §3134 ¹, was a generous emergency program, and one of the most-abused federal credits in modern tax history. The IRS's response, a moratorium, a withdrawal program, two voluntary disclosure programs, and now an aggressive denial campaign, has put practitioners and clients in an ongoing remediation cycle. This essay describes where we are in spring 2026.
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