Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer ‘Stay Home, Stay Safe’ Executive Order Announced
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer ‘Stay Home, Stay Safe’ Executive Order Announced
As of 11 a.m. today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer has announced a mandatory three-week statewide ‘Stay Home, Stay Safe’ Executive Order 2020-21 effective March 24 at 12:01 a.m. continuing through April 13 at 11:59 p.m. All non-essential businesses in the State of Michigan are to be closed until that time. A list of essential businesses can be found at www.Michigan.gov/coronavirus.
The MICPA has requested that CPA firms be deemed as an essential business. As of now, Fenner, Melstom & Dooling, PLC has not been granted the essential business status. Our office will be formally closing effective today at 5 p.m. to comply with this executive order.
Our main phone line will be available during normal business hours. We will continue to make every effort to provide a high level of service to our clients during this challenging period. The majority of our team has already been working remotely, so we intend to continue to process tax returns as the information comes to us. Please make every effort to send your FMD Advisor your information electronically via the Sharefile link on our website. We will continue to process mail as it comes in. This setback will slow down our normal processing time, and we ask for your patience.
As many of you may have already heard, on Friday, March 20, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirmed that the April 15 tax filing deadline has officially been extended to July 15 to mirror the extended payment due date. The first 2020 tax estimates (normally due April 15, 2020) have been postponed until July 15, 2020. Common sense would dictate that this extension would also apply to the second quarter tax estimates due June 15, 2020, but we do not have clear guidance on this at this time. The AICPA is keeping a list of states’ tax developments here.
FMD will continue to monitor this very fluid situation and post updates on our COVID-19 Updates page as they become available.
Please stay safe and healthy.
