NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–tZERO, a leader in blockchain innovation and liquidity for digital assets, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Engineered Tax Services, Inc. (ETS), the country’s largest licensed tax credits and incentives advisory firm. ETS is a licensed engineering firm with over 150 employees that focuses on federal, state, and local tax credits and incentives. ETS caters to a diversified client base, which largely consists of several thousand private CPA firms and their related clients in the businesses of real estate, manufacturing, and energy. This partnership will introduce tZERO to ETS clients seeking technology services to digitize their capitalization tables (i.e., tokenization). tZERO’s tokenization standard is interoperable with the tZERO ATS trading ecosystem, giving issuers optionality to a secondary liquidity solution.

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The Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) is a tax credit offered by the federal government to assist businesses in retaining their employees during economic hardships. This credit was introduced in 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and has been extended until the last quarter of 2021.