The recently passed stimulus bill included the creation of PPP2 which provides that if an Employer has fewer than 300 employees and experienced a decline in Gross Receipts of 25% or more in any 2020 calendar quarter they could apply for a “Second Draw” under the provisions of the original PPP legislation.
One unanswered questions when the bill was passed: “What is the definition of Gross Receipts?”
On January 7th, the SBA issued guidance clarifying that subsection (c)(2) of the IFR generally defines gross receipts to include all revenue in whatever form received or accrued (in accordance with the entity’s accounting method) from whatever source, including from the sales of products or services, interest, dividends, rents, royalties, fees, or commissions, reduced by returns and allowances. Generally, receipts are considered “total income” (or in the case of a sole proprietorship, independent contractor, or self-employed individual “gross income”) plus “cost of goods sold,” and excludes net capital gains or losses as these terms are defined and reported on IRS tax return forms. Gross receipts do not include the following: taxes collected for and remitted to a taxing authority if included in gross or total income (such as sales or other taxes collected from customers and excluding taxes levied on the concern or its employees); proceeds from transactions between a concern and its domestic or foreign affiliates; and amounts collected for another by a travel agent, real estate agent, advertising agent, conference management service provider, freight forwarder or customs broker. All other items, such as subcontractor costs, reimbursements for purchases a contractor makes at a customer’s request, investment income, and employee-based costs such as payroll taxes, may not be excluded from gross receipts. Subsection (c)(2) also adapts the methodology for calculating affiliate receipts from 13 C.F.R. 121.104.
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