Matt and Ryan made the decision last summer that we'd like to have all clients provide us with a signed Power of Attorney Form 2848. We saw the writing on the wall and knew this upcoming tax season was going to provide a whole host of challenges and to make life easier on our clients and our staff, it made sense for us to have all possible resources we need to complete your return available to us during tax time.
If you have access to your client portal, a copy of the Power of Attorney was uploaded there for you. If you don't use our portal then copies would have been mailed to you.
The average time for Power of Attorney's to be accepted by the IRS, as of last summer, was around 65 to 80 days and right now it's still around 30 to 45 days. Before the pandemic it was generally a 10 day process.
If we are completing your tax return before April 18th, and you haven't already filled out your copy, we will re-issue you one with the signature pages of your 2021 tax return.
If we are filing an extension for you and completing your return after April 18th, and you haven't signed your Power of Attorney yet, we highly recommend you sign the document now and send it to us immediately so we can get it on file with the IRS before we start on your return.
Power of Attorneys need to be wet-signed. They can not be digitally or electronically signed so please keep that in mind when signing.