As a practice, you are always looking for ways to reduce costs and better serve your patients. Did you know that by making your website more accessible you could be eligible for up to a $5,000 tax credit? If you are a small practice with less than 30 employees, through the IRS Code Section 44 Disabled Access Credit, your practice can qualify for a tax credit for improving your website’s accessibility. The policy states “small businesses may take an annual tax credit for making their businesses accessible to persons with disabilities”.
Over the years at Practis, we have voiced all the important reasons to take your website’s accessibility seriously – improved performance in search engines, reduced risk of lawsuits, access by users of all types to the information they need to learn about you, your services and how you help. Still many practices find it difficult to budget for this critical component of their digital strategy. Because redesigning a website or performing ongoing testing or remediation can be cost-prohibitive to practices with smaller budgets, to incentivize small businesses, the IRS is offering a tax credit of up to $5,000 each year to offset 50% of your accessibility-related expenses…
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