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Note 3 - Bank Note Payable
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
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Note 3 - Bank Note Payable

 

In April 2020, VTC, L.L.C. (the “Borrower”), a wholly owned subsidiary of TSS, Inc., applied to Texas Capital Bank, N.A. under the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act of 2020 (the “CARES Act”) for a loan of $889,858 (the “PPP Loan”). On April 17, 2020 the PPP Loan was approved and the Borrower received the PPP Loan proceeds, which the Borrower used for covered payroll costs, rent and utilities in accordance with the relevant terms and conditions of the CARES Act.

 

The PPP Loan, which took the form of a promissory note issued by the Borrower, has a two-year term maturing on April 12, 2022, bears interest at a rate of 1% per annum and principal and interest payments will be deferred for the first six months of the loan term, which has since been updated according to the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020 (“Flexibility Act”).

 

In June 2020, the Flexibility Act was signed into law, which amended the CARES Act. The Flexibility Act changed key provisions of the PPP, including, but not limited to, provisions relating to (i) the maturity of PPP loans, (ii) the deferral period covering PPP loan payments, and (iii) the process for measurement of loan forgiveness. More specifically, the Flexibility Act provides a minimum maturity of five years for all PPP loans made on or after the date of the enactment of the Flexibility Act ( “June 5, 2020”) and permits lenders and borrowers to extend the maturity date of earlier PPP loans by mutual agreement.

 

The Flexibility Act also provides that if a borrower does not apply for forgiveness of a loan within 10 months after the last day of the measurement period (“covered period”), the PPP loan is no longer deferred, and the borrower must begin paying principal and interest. Therefore, the Company’s deferral period for principal and interest payments was updated from six months according the terms and conditions of the PPP Loan to ten months after the expiration of the eight-week covered period adopted by the Company, which was in May 2021. In addition, the Flexibility Act extended the length of the covered period from eight weeks to twenty-four weeks from receipt of proceeds, while allowing borrowers that received PPP loans before June 5, 2020 to determine, at their sole discretion, a covered period of either eight weeks or twenty-four weeks.

 

The Borrower did not provide any collateral or guarantees for the PPP Loan, nor did the Borrower pay any fees to obtain the PPP Loan. The promissory note provides for customary events of default, including, among others, failure to make a payment when due, cross-defaults under any loan documents with the lender, certain cross-defaults under agreements with third parties, events of bankruptcy or insolvency, certain change of control events, and material adverse changes in the Borrower’s financial condition. If an event of default occurs, the lender will have the right to accelerate indebtedness under the PPP Loan and/or pursue other remedies available to the lender pursuant to the terms of the promissory note.

 

The Borrower may apply to the lender for forgiveness of some or all of the PPP Loan, with the amount which may be forgiven equal to the sum of eligible payroll costs, mortgage interest, covered rent and covered utilities payments, in each case incurred by the Borrower during the measurement period following the effective date of the promissory note, calculated in accordance with the terms of the CARES Act. Certain reductions in the Borrower’s payroll costs during the measurement period may reduce the amount of the PPP Loan eligible for forgiveness. We applied for full forgiveness of the loan in August 2020 and in November 2020 were notified by the Small Business Administration that the PPP Loan and accrued interest had been forgiven in accordance with the CARES Act. As a result, we recorded a gain on forgiveness of debt of approximately $896,000 during the fourth quarter of 2020 that has been included in Other Income in our 2020 consolidated statements of operations.