E*Fileing... Do you use Form 8879 or 8453?

[Hamacher]

Which method do you use and why?

[BOB W]

8879......

..... really the only way to go. No mailing of anything.

[dyne]

I am new at efiling but I am using the 8879 since I am not required to mail it to IRS.

[oceanlovin'ea]

8879

Same reason. You don't have to mail anything to the IRS. You keep your signed copy of 8879 and w-2's.

Makes life much simpler.

Linda F

[S T]

Ditto

Form 8879 and the companion form for the State.

No more mailings and those letters in the mail that they didn't receive the 8453.

Sandy

[thomtax]

8879

No postage expense, no "We didn't get its - Send copy". Simpler and easier

LT

[Gary]

8453

The only time you use 8453 is if you have to send in information to the IRS. You can still e-file, but you must physically mail the information to the IRS.

[geekgirldany]

8453

I still mail the 8453

[Black Bart]

Yeah,

I still mail the 8453

Me too....

[Black Bart]

8453

Which...why?

I like to go to the post office every now and then.

[JoshinNC]

8453 for us

Just haven't changed the settings in the software.

[Chief]

8879

Unlike Black Bart, I hate going to the Post Office and standing in line. People think I am crazy old man for talkiing to strangers. You old have to retain the copies for three years. Haven't had the guts to go paperless yet. I use the 8879 except when something has to be mailed.

[Black Bart]

Chief

Unlike Black Bart, I hate going to the Post Office and standing in line. People think I am crazy old man for talkiing to strangers.

Move out of that big town to Podunk Junction. There aren't any lines and I already know half the people I run into.

[Chief]

Virginia Wolfe

You can't go home again. I believe the author is correct.

[Black Bart]

Home again.

You can't go home again. I believe the author is correct.

I once heard a New York celebrity (immersed, I suppose, in the surrounding theaters, art, galleries, museums, etc.) quoted: "I wouldn't want to live anyplace where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on red."