Prevailing wage and apprenticeship services

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Discover the untapped potential of your clean energy tax incentives with our holistic prevailing wage and apprenticeship (PWA) services. Complying with PWA requirements drives the difference between a 30% and 6% credit - is your company capitalizing on the increased credit opportunity?

Our specialists can provide in-depth education on the rules, establish highly effective compliance programs, and leverage cutting-edge technology to streamline the entire process.

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Significant benefits are available under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)

The IRA makes several clean energy tax incentives available to taxpayers that can satisfy certain prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements. In general, a taxpayer that meets the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements will multiply the base amount of the tax incentive (credit or deduction) by five. Increased credit and deduction amounts are available for taxpayers satisfying prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements under the following sections of the Internal Revenue Code: Sections 30C, 45, 45Q, 45V, 45Y, 45Z, 48, 48C, 48E, 179D; prevailing wage only: Sections 45L, 45U).

Marc Caillouet discusses how overcoming challenging administrative burdens and data issues is key to complying with the complex rules.

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What are the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements?

The taxpayer/contractors/subcontractors must 1) pay workers constructing, altering, or repairing facilities prevailing wages, as set by the Department of Labor (DOL), for similar work in that location and 2) an applicable percentage of total labor hours must be performed by qualified apprentices, subject to DOL or state apprentice-to-journeyworker ratios; if four or more workers are employed, at least one must be a qualified apprentice.


The challenges of complying with PWA regulations

Getting all the stakeholders up to speed on the nuances of the rules and how to comply.

Making sure worker classifications map into published categories appropriate for your project.

Getting timely information from numerous sources on a regular basis.

Identifying issues early and taking action to resolve them.

Documenting evidence to claim the credit on the tax return and support future audits.

Managing data requests and project status, giving quick insights and detailed reports.


Our prevailing wage services

  • No one-size fits all - we will work with you to design a process that can meet your key stakeholders’ and your project needs.
  • Meeting the tax technical requirements is a key objective in our program design.
  • We seek to instill process knowledge by sharing key concepts with the client team and contractors through trainings on prevailing wage rules and process leading practices.
  • Before monthly compliance begins, we will work with contacts to share trial access to test the design of the ongoing process.
  • We provide templates to facilitate and document the mapping from titles in each contractor's payroll system to the appropriate SAM.gov wage determination labor classification.
  • We are using our tool Global Incentives Solutions to help manage the collection of info.
  • As we bring all the data to the center, we perform an automated review to help identify compliance exceptions.
  • Our compliance dashboard will allow you to view progress of collection and remediation.
  • Our PWA report deliverables contain the information needed to document compliance.

Our unique technology can help make the process more efficient

We believe innovation, creativity, and passion are needed everywhere for making progress on the world’s most important problems. We use our enterprise cloud application, Global Incentives Solutions, to help manage the collection of info. Global Incentives Solutions is a mature platform with numerous external users and incentives clients globally.

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Randa Barsoum

Randa Barsoum

Partner, PwC US

Nicole Brigati

Nicole Brigati

Partner, PwC US

Marc Caillouet

Marc Caillouet

Partner, PwC US

Brian Daily

Brian Daily

Partner, PwC US

Shawn Mercer

Shawn Mercer

Partner, PwC US

Wendy Punches

Wendy Punches

Managing Director, PwC US

Edward Tarka

Edward Tarka

Partner, PwC US

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