How long should tax professionals hold onto the e-file signature authorizations of their clients? It depends on where they and their clients reside. Processing Content Form 8879, "IRS e-file Signature ...

The Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) can no longer be filed on TDF 90-22.1, and must be e-filed on Form 114. This alert summarizes developments involving FBAR e-filing and ...

The AICPA Tax Executive Committee (TEC) has sent the IRS a letter requesting the Service update and modernize its e-filing signature requirements in four areas in response to the COVID-19 pandemic but ...

The days of the majestic handwritten signature are pretty much done. The IRS encourages taxpayers to file their returns electronically, identifying themselves not with a pen but a special PIN. Credit ...

Most taxpayers and tax preparers this year will use IRS e-file to file their tax returns or get extensions of time to file. During this process, they will not have to send a single scrap of paper to ...

The Internal Revenue Service has extended the ability to digitally sign a wide variety of tax forms through the end of year, lengthening what had been a temporary grant of relief for the pandemic.

Most taxpayers and tax preparers this year will use IRS e-file to file their federal tax returns or get extensions of time to file. During this process, they will not have to send a single scrap of ...

The Tax Court held a completed signature block of petitions created with an online petition generator feature of the court’s DAWSON electronic filing and case management system satisfies the petitions ...

Client trust erodes when document workflows are fragmented, delayed, reworked and vulnerable to compliance risks. By ...