Can an 8879 be signed and then faxed back to the e-filer?
Gary
Gary
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Sorry
Similar threads popped up when I submitted my post, and I found the answer.
Thanks,
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Yes
That is permissable. I even had to email the form and it was emailed back to me.
As long as they sign it.
Linda FComment
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Email .............
............. client info is not good. The only time I email info with a name and SS# on it is when I can Password protect the email. If a client cannot password protect his scanned document, I have them fax it back.
Over-kill, yes and no.This post is for discussion purposes only and should be verified with other sources before actual use.
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Email vs. Snail-mail vs. Fax
Which way is most/least secure?? All depends on the individual situation... If client asks me to email them something, it's up to them to make sure their e-mail box is secure. No different than if they ask me to fax or snail-mail something.Originally posted by BOB W View Post
Email vs. Snail-Mail -- how often have you received snail-mail for your neighbor?
BillComment
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How do you pay in restaurants?
This question reminds me of my clients who are obsessive shredders, but then use their credit cards at restaurants where some food server (whose background might not survive even a cursory check) carries around their personal information for an entire shift, including smoking breaks outside where they chat with their friends.
It also reminds me of this time a couple years ago, when a client in Newport Beach was awaiting the tax returns that I had shipped to her by FedEx. She watched out her front window as the FedEx truck pulled up to a neighbor's house, several doors down and across the street, and left a package inside the screen door without ringing the bell. She went down to the neighbor's house, rang the bell and asked the person who answered the door if she would check the address on the package. It turned out to be her tax returns.
Since then, I'lll use USPS instead of FedEx, but I'll use email instead of USPS.Comment
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Hate to burst your bubble George
But Fedex is shipping alot of the packages for the USPS.Comment
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So I guess the consensus here is that the best way to do it is:
Email the tax return and the Form 8879s to the client and then have then fax the signed Form 8879s back to the tax preparer.
One more question, do you request the clients to mail back the original Form 8879s to you later just for your record? I asked a client to mail me back the originals before but he felt like I was bugging him because his former tax preparer didn't request him to do that.Comment
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Original>
Original is not required....so don't ask for it.
The only way I email anything to my clients is with a passwod to open it. If you don't have that ability you should not be emailing forms with SS and name on it.This post is for discussion purposes only and should be verified with other sources before actual use.
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How do you set up a password for an email? Do you/the client need a special program to do that?Originally posted by BOB W View PostComment
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My tax program, CS's Ultra tax, has a file cabinet program that has pdf capability with password protection. My brain is fried, but this capability can be purchase from ???.Originally posted by Questionguy101 View PostThis post is for discussion purposes only and should be verified with other sources before actual use.
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Originally posted by BOB W View Post
OK..so you need a program with the password utility...and then you give the password to your clients so that only them can open the pdf file of their tax returns..I get it now.Comment
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I remember.....
... I remember now> Adobe Acrobat............This post is for discussion purposes only and should be verified with other sources before actual use.
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This news story reminded me of my comment --Originally posted by George Boutwell View Post
NEW YORK (AP) -- The diners didn't know it, but their credit cards were going to pay for more than their meals, prosecutors said. Waiters in about 40 restaurants, in New York and elsewhere, quietly recorded customers' credit card information and passed it on to people who used the information to make more than $3 million worth of worth of illegal purchases, according to prosecutors. Thirteen people were indicted Friday on charges stemming from their roles in the credit card fraud, prosecutors said. The credit card account information was stolen from customers who visited restaurants in Manhattan's Chinatown and other parts of the New York metropolitan area, as well eateries in Florida, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Connecticut.Comment
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Here's a simple to use Freeware program to encrypt files.Comment
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