The ADA requires companies providing goods and services to the public
to take certain limited steps to improve access to existing places of business.If your business provides goods and services to the public, you are required to remove barriers if doing so is readily achievable. Such a business is called a public accommodation because it serves the public.
If your business is not open to the public but is only a place of employment like a warehouse, manufacturing facility or office building, then there is no requirement to remove barriers. Such a facility is called a commercial facility. While the operator of a commercial facility is not required to remove barriers, you must comply with the ADA Standards for Accessible Design when you alter, renovate or expand your facility.
Some Common Barriers
Narrow Doors
Steps with No Ramp
Round Door Knob at an Entrance Door
Crowded Check-Out
Narrow Store Aisles
Round Faucet Handles in Bathrooms
No Visual Alarms
Tax Credits & Deductions
As amended in 1990, the Internal Revenue Code allows a deduction of up
to $15,000 per year for expenses associated with the removal of qualified
architectural and transportation barriers (Section 190). The 1990 amendment also permits eligible small businesses to receive a
tax credit (Section 44) for certain costs of compliance with the ADA. An
eligible small business is one whose gross receipts do not exceed
$1,000,000 or whose workforce does not consist of more than 30 full-time
workers. Qualifying businesses may claim a credit of up to 50 percent of
eligible access expenditures that exceed $250 but do not exceed $10,250.
Examples of eligible access expenditures include the necessary and reasonable
costs of removing architectural, physical, communications, and
transportation barriers; providing readers, interpreters, and other auxiliary
aids; and acquiring or modifying equipment or devices.
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The ADA requires companies providing goods and services to the public
to take certain limited steps to improve access to existing places of business.If your business provides goods and services to the public, you are required to remove barriers if doing so is readily achievable. Such a business is called a public accommodation because it
