natlawreview.com (27.03.2020)

Measures benefiting children or families with children

$3.5 billion in additional funding for Child Care Development Block Grants to provide childcare assistance to healthcare sector employees, emergency responders, sanitation workers, and other essential workers.

$25 billion for food assistance, including nearly $16 billion for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and nearly $9 billion for child nutrition.

home.kpmg (27.03.2020)

The CARES Act allows employers and self-employed individuals to defer payment of the employer share (6.2%) of the social security tax they otherwise are responsible for paying in 2020, effective for payments due after March 27, 2020.  Fifty percent of the deferred payroll taxes are due on December 31, 2021, and the remaining amounts are due on December 31, 2022.

home.kpmg (27.03.2020)

whitehouse.gov (27.03.2020)

New measures allow a high-deductible health plan with a health savings account to cover telehealth services prior to a patient reaching the deductible.

bundesregierung.de (27.03.2020)

bmfsfj.de (31.03.2020)

bundesregierung.de (27.03.2020)

The Government is supporting small business to retain their apprentices and trainees. This measure will support up to 70,000 small businesses, employing around 117,000 apprentices.

One-off payment of $750 to social security, veteran and other income support recipients and eligible concession card holders to support confidence and domestic demand in the economy.

bundesfinanzministerium.de (19.03.2020)

Um Unternehmen in der Corona-Pandemie dabei zu unterstützen, ihre Ausstattung mit Liquidität zu verbessern, erhalten sie steuerliche Hilfen. Das Bundesfinanzministerium hat mit den obersten Landesfinanzbehörden ein BMF-Schreiben abgestimmt, mit dem betroffene Steuerpflichtige mit konkreten steuerlichen Erleichterungen unterstützt werden.