Tax DIY
CLIENT ID REQUIREMENT
When an individual/client is preparing to do or have done his/her taxes the following documents should be assembled to be used for authenticity and verification. Please take time to put these documents together and if, any special event took place in that tax year add it to the package.
For INDIVIDUAL RETURNS:
- DRIVER’S LICENSE
- SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER
- CHILDREN’S NAME, AGE AND ADDRESS
- FILING STATUS
- BIRTH CERTIFICATE
- DEATH CERTIFICATE
- ADOPTION CERTIFICATE
- MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
- DIVORCE CERTIFICATE
- GREEN CARD
- MUNICIPAL CARD
- W-2/1099S
- EXEMPTION CERTIFICATES
- Last TWO(2) Year’s Tax Return
- BANK STATEMENTS
- IRS LETTERS
- RECIEPTS
- Contract employees with more than one job
- People with multiple investments they may have sold or profited from in the last year.
- “If you have investments you can see, ‘Oh, I still own that stock,’
- SOLD STOCKS, reporting the gains
- Contractors with a recurring job every year that you forgot about
- Job you no longer have on an old return can jog your memory
- Current sources of income
- FOREIGN PROPERTIES
- FOREIGN BANK ACCOUNTS
- This contract fell through, but I got another one to replace it
And BUSINESS/CORPORATE/NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TAX RETURNS ADD THE FOLLOWING:
- BUSINESS INCOME.EXPENSES
- EIN
- EXEMPTION CERTIFICATES- FOR BUSINESSES
- BUSINESS REGISTRATION
- BUSINESS LICENSES
- W-3/1098 REPORTS