COVID-19 related rent concessions take many forms, but recent guidance from the FASB & IASB oversimplifies the scenarios. These six real world scenarios are what every tenant and lessee will need to know to comply with the new COVID-19 guidance from the FASB and IASB:
Pure rent abatement / forgiveness.
Rent deferral, with the rent to be repaid later with no other change to the lease.
Withholding of rent. Not a deferral, but an unilateral decision to preserve cash.
Rent abatement or deferral, but with a contraction in leased premises or assets.
Rent abatement or deferral, but with a lease modification to early terminate the lease.
Rent abatement or deferral, but with an extension of the term and/or expansion of premises / assets under lease.