With the prospect that ordinarily tax deductible business expenses will still be deductible if they were paid for with forgiven PPP loan funds contained in the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021, attention turns to the California treatment of same.

The answer is that California currently does not conform to the federal amendment to this law contained in the new stimulus bill.  As such, business expenditures paid for with forgiven PPP loan funds must be reversed for California tax purposes.

The source of this position is California AB 1577 which states that any deductions for expenses paid with forgiven PPP loan funds are specifically non-deductible.

(This is Blog Post #943)