Update on EWSS
by Dave O'Brien
 
 

In last months edition we updated you on the EWSS, which is the new employment subsidy available to struggling businesses. Revenue have subsequently updated the guidance to comment on 2 aspects of the scheme.

  • Proprietary Directors
  • Sweep back for July/August new hires

 

Proprietary Directors

 

Directors who own the business will continue to qualify for the scheme. However in order qualify the company must themselves qualify for the scheme and also the directors must have been on the payroll of the company at any time between June 2019 and July 2020. Where a person is a director of more than one company then they will only qualify for the EWSS for one company only.

 

July/August Sweepback

 

Employers can now make their submissions for new employees who were hired in July and August and didn’t qualify for the original wage subsidy scheme. These new hires can claim the EWSS for July and August from the 15th of September. In order to make the claim employers need to first be registered for the EWSS and then complete the following template – https://revenue.ie/en/corporate/communications/documents/ewss-july-august-sweepback.csv

 

They then need to download this file with Revenue before the 14th of October

 

Please see the link to the original article here.

 

Regards 

Dave