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Electronic signatures are legally recognized in India and are provided for in the Information Technology Act, 2000 (?ITA?), the Indian Contract Act of 1872 (?ICA?) and the Electronic Signature or Electronic Authentication Technique and Procedure Rules, 2015 (?ESEATPR?).

The "Submit Forms 2848 and 8821 Online" tool is available from the IRS.gov/taxpros page.

A scanned signature is a digital copy of a handwritten signature, usually captured as an image. To create a scanned signature, a signatory will draw their signature by hand on paper and use a device of some sort to transform the handwritten signature into a digital format, like a PDF, JPEG, or PNG.

Taxpayers, who currently use Forms 8878 or 8879 to sign electronic Forms 1040 federal tax returns or filing extensions, can use an e-signature to sign and electronically submit these forms to their Electronic Return Originator (ERO).

The IRS doesn't specify what technology a taxpayer must use to capture an electronic signature. The IRS will accept images of signatures (scanned or photographed) including common file types supported by Microsoft 365 such as tiff, jpg, jpeg, pdf, Microsoft Office suite or Zip.

But if you use this method to sign important documents, you need to know that a scanned signature holds no legal validity. To create a legally acceptable electronic signature in a Word or PDF document, your client needs to have their own digital signature certificate.

If the IRS wants you to perform some correction to your return before they will process it, they often send Form 3531 or Letter 143C with their requests for action. The most common task they request is a simple signing of the return. But, sometimes their requests are impossible to follow or complete.