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Shortterm Obligation
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2023
Shortterm Obligation  
Short-term Obligation

Note 8. Short-term Obligation

 

ERC Claim and Risk Participation Agreement – In January 2023, the Company filed for the Employee Retention Credit (“ERC”) for $1,662,698.  The ERC is a refundable tax credit for businesses that continued to pay employees while sustaining a full or partial suspension of operations limiting commerce, travel or group meetings due to COVID-19 pandemic and orders from an appropriate governmental authority or had significant declines in gross receipts from March 13, 2020 to September 30, 2021. The Company sustained a partial suspension of operations during this time due to governmental orders.  Eligible employers can claim the ERC on an original or adjusted employment tax return for a period within those dates.  The Company did not record the calculated quarterly credits as income at December 31, 2022 because as of December 31, 2022 it was not reasonably certain the amounts would be collected.

 

On March 29, 2023, Company, as seller, received $1,330,464 as a purchase price (the “Purchase Price”) for the sale of the Company’s rights, title and interest per a Risk Participation of ERC Claim Agreement, dated March 27, 2023 (“Agreement”) by and between the Company and 1861 Acquisition LLC (the “Buyer”). On April 21, 2023, the Company received an additional $82,830 from the Buyer which was held in escrow.

 

The Agreement transferred all of the Company’s rights to receive any and all payments, proceeds or distributions of any kind (without set-off, deduction or withholding of any kind), including interest, from the United States Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) in respect of the employee retention credits duly and timely claimed by Seller on account of qualified wages paid by Seller and identified as a “Claim for Refund” under Form 941-X Adjusted Employer’s Quarterly Federal Tax Return or Claim for Refund for the third (3rd) and fourth (4th) quarters of 2020, and the first (1st), second (2nd) and third (3rd) quarters of 2021 (the “Tax Refund Claim”) in the aggregate amount of $1,662,698 (“Transferred Interests”).

 

During June 2023, the Company received checks for the ERC from the IRS.  The amount received was the $1,662,698 plus $70,699 of interest.  These checks were forwarded to the Buyer as per the Agreement.  The Company recorded the Transferred Interests amount as other income and the interest as interest income and interest expense.  In the Statements of Cash Flows the amounts received from the IRS were recorded as an operating activity and the amounts forwarded to the Buyer were recorded as a financing activity.