IRS Automated Employee Retention Credit Review Unfair, Firms Say

Two firms seeking to halt IRS use of automated software to expedite pandemic-era tax credit claims say a lower court wrongly denied them the right to contest the agency’s means for denying such claims.

ERC Today LLC and Stenson Tamaddon LLC, both of which helped companies apply for the Employee Retention Credit during and after the contagion, were wrongly denied standing to sue the government over the use of “risking filters” that led to denial of a large numbers of claims based on “flawed predictions” that the agency doesn’t scrutinize, they told the Ninth Circuit in an opening brief June ...