The IRS in an internal memo Friday identified a range of forms for which it will temporarily allow required signatures in electronic or digital form. The forms are fileable only on paper but otherwise ...

The outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), with its social distancing and remote work protocols, has brought renewed focus on the execution of transactional documentation without the traditional ...

The COVID-19 Pandemic has elevated the need for digital signatures on forms everywhere. Fortunately we are able to use the Adobe Acrobat Reader program to facilitate the process. Adobe Acrobat Reader ...

“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 ...

A nonprofit formed to increase voter registration said it is adjusting its online form to register voters after pushback from the secretary of state's office regarding electronic signatures. Despite ...

More than ever, organisations invest money, time, and other resources to create state-of-the-art electronic business processes, yet need to print a hard copy to get a customer's signature on a ...

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The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued news release IR-2020-194 on August 28, approving the temporary use of digital signatures for certain IRS forms that must be filed with the IRS manually. Of ...

The Internal Revenue Service said Friday it would temporarily allow the use of digital e-signatures on some forms that can’t be filed electronically to reduce the risk to taxpayers and tax ...

The E-SIGN Act defines an electronic signature, which is legally binding, as an "electronic sound, symbol or process, attached to or logically associated with a record, and executed and adopted by a ...

The ATF says it’s streamlining Form 1, the application Americans use to make and register NFA firearms. Jared Yanis at Guns & ...