LAS VEGAS--If there's one organization that could make the most people's lives easier by accepting digital signatures, it would be the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Sadly, the IRS is still a long way ...

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 ...

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. The ...

“It’s not just a pandemic thing. This will be extremely useful to issuers and other people involved in tax-exempt financing,” said David Cholst, a tax partner at Chapman and Cutler in Chicago who ...

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

You can add a signature to a Google Doc with the built-in drawing tool. You can also use an add-on to add signatures to your document, or request them. Add-ons can be safer if they use encryption and ...