Federal Verification Process (2020-21)

If you filed an amended tax return you must provide our office with the following:

An IRS Tax Return Transcript that includes information from the original tax return OR any other IRS tax transcript(s) that includes all income and tax information from the original tax return required for verification

AND

An ink signed of IRS Form 1040X “Amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Return,” that was filed with the IRS.

A tax filer who is required to file a 2018 IRS income tax return and has been granted a filing extension by the IRS, beyond the automatic six-month extension for tax year 2018, must provide our office with the following:

• a copy of IRS Form 4868, “Application for Automatic Extension of Time to File U.S. Individual Income Tax Return,” that was filed with the IRS for tax year 2018 

• A copy of the IRS’s approval of an extension beyond the automatic six-month extension for tax year 2018

• Verification of Non-Filing Letter (confirmation that the tax return has not yet been filed) from the IRS or other relevant tax authority dated on or after October 1, 2018;

• a copy of IRS Form W-2 for each source of employment income received for tax year 2018, 

An individual who was the victim of IRS tax-related identity theft must complete the following steps:

• Contact the IRS at 1-800-908-4490.

• Upon authentication of the tax filer’s identity, the IRS will provide, by U.S. Postal Service, an alternate transcript Tax Return DataBase View (TRDBV) of the tax filer’s IRS income tax return information.

• Provide a statement, signed and dated by the tax filer, indicating that he/she was a victim of IRS tax-related identity theft and that the IRS has been made aware of the tax-related identity theft.

You may be required to complete a Statement of Educational Purpose as part of the Federal Verification process.  If you are unable to come to our office in person with an unexpired valid government-issued photo identification, you may complete this Statement of Educational Purpose in the presence of a notary public.

The original notarized statement and a copy of the identification acknowledged by the notary public will need to be submitted to our office by mail or in person.

A tax filer who filed an income tax return with Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands may provide a signed copy of his or her income tax return that was filed with the relevant tax authority. However, if we question the accuracy of the information on the signed copy of the income tax return, the tax filer must provide us with a copy of the tax account information issued by the relevant tax authority before verification can be completed. 

A tax filer who filed an income tax return with tax authority for American Samoa must provide a copy of his or her tax account information. 

A tax filer who filed an income tax return with tax authorities not mentioned above, (i.e. a foreign tax authority, and who indicates that he or she is unable to obtain the tax account information free of charge), must provide our office with documentation that the tax authority charges a fee to obtain that information, along with a translated, signed copy of their income tax return that was filed with the relevant tax authority, converted to US Dollars.