{"id":120,"date":"2020-03-18T16:54:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=120"},"modified":"2020-08-31T10:38:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:38:22","slug":"employers-can-make-tax-free-payments-to-employees-under-irs-section-139-during-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/18\/employers-can-make-tax-free-payments-to-employees-under-irs-section-139-during-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers Can Make Tax-Free Payments to Employees Under IRS Section 139 During COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 13, 2020, COVID-19 was designated a disaster under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. As a result, employers are permitted to make tax-free reimbursements and payments to employees under Internal Revenue Code Section 139. This\u00a0<i>Alert<\/i>\u00a0will outline the rules governing these reimbursements and considerations that employers must take into account when implementing such a program.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/employers_can_make_tax_free_payments_employees_under_irs_section139_covid19_0320.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">please visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 13, 2020, COVID-19 was designated a disaster under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. As a result, employers are permitted to make tax-free reimbursements and payments to employees under Internal Revenue Code Section 139. This\u00a0Alert\u00a0will outline the rules governing these reimbursements and considerations that employers must take into account &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/18\/employers-can-make-tax-free-payments-to-employees-under-irs-section-139-during-covid-19-pandemic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Employers Can Make Tax-Free Payments to Employees Under IRS Section 139 During COVID-19 Pandemic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,96,31,97,642],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-disaster-relief","tag-employees","tag-employment-law","tag-payroll","tag-tax"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}