{"id":8156,"date":"2020-09-10T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T16:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8156"},"modified":"2020-09-10T12:02:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T16:02:05","slug":"signing-forms-706-and-709-electronically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8156","title":{"rendered":"Signing Forms 706 and 709 Electronically"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a further response to COVID-19, and in order to protect Internal Revenue Service employees, as well as taxpayers and their representatives, by minimizing the need for in-person contact, the IRS has added federal estate and gift tax returns, Forms 706 and 709, to a list of forms that can be signed electronically even though they can&#8217;t be filed electronically.  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/newsroom\/irs-adds-six-more-forms-to-list-that-can-be-signed-digitally-16-now-available\" target=\"_blank\">IR-2020-206<\/a> (9\/10\/2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-utl\/updated-dcse-web-signature-memorandum.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">8\/28\/2020 memorandum<\/a> first allowing electronic signatures for certain forms that must be filed in paper form, &#8220;Electronic and digital signatures appear in many forms when printed and may be created by many different technologies. No specific technology is required for this purpose during this temporary deviation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deviation applies to forms filed on or after August 28, 2020, until December 31, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a further response to COVID-19, and in order to protect Internal Revenue Service employees, as well as taxpayers and their representatives, by minimizing the need for in-person contact, the IRS has added federal estate and gift tax returns, Forms &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8156\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[327,333],"class_list":["post-8156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items","tag-federal-estate-tax","tag-federal-gift-tax","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8158,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions\/8158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}