The Internal Revenue Service has extended the use of digital signatures and encrypted email when working with IRS personnel.
Digital signatures will be accepted “until more robust technical solutions are deployed,” the IRS statement said while encrypted email will be accepted until Oct. 31, 2025. These technologies were allowed during the Covid-19 pandemic to provide flexibility.
“We heard from tax professionals and taxpayers as well as our employees about how the flexibilities made it easier to comply with tax requirements and communicate with IRS compliance personnel,” Doug O’Donnell, IRS Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement, said in a prepared statement.
A listing of allowable signature options can be found in IRM Exhibit 10.10.1-2 on IRS.gov. Interim Guidance Memorandum PGLD-10-1023-0002 provides for the receipt and transmission of documents through Oct. 31, 2025.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind
