As a staff writer for Forbes Advisor, SMB, Kristy helps small business owners find the tools they need to keep their businesses running. She uses the experience of managing her own writing and editing ...

The Internal Revenue Service is extending two of its pandemic-related options for taxpayers and tax professionals, indefinitely extending the ability to use electronic or digital signatures for tax ...

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 ...

A temporary change that the IRS made during the COVID-19 pandemic to allow electronic signatures on some forms, documents, and returns was made permanent in the Internal Revenue Manual (IRM) last week ...

With advances in technology and SFU members increasingly learning and working from different locations, electronic signatures (or e-signatures) have become widely used. While electronic signatures ...

Electronic signature apps help businesses digitize processes that require signatures, such as contracts and legal documents. Integrating these tools into other business processes is the next step for ...

If you haven’t created an electronic/digital tracking signature: The 1 st time you open a document that needs an electronic/digital signature, you’ll have to actually create your signature. Once that ...

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has updated the Internal Revenue Manual (IRM) to specify which forms taxpayers can electronically sign and which types of electronic signatures are permitted, now ...

Earlier this month, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced progress this year to reduce customer burden by transitioning wet (physical) signature requirements to digital signatures for ...