Signatures from Out-of-State Clients for Mailed Returns

[prkwork]

I have an out-of-state client who must file by mail because he doesn't know his IP PIN and whose IRS user account is locked. So, how to I best get him to get a signed document ("original signature" per IRS) to me to file, as they don't like the client signing and then sending me a scan of the signature page.

[BobKamman]

Why can't you mail him the return and tell him to sign it and mail it himself?  Are you his tax preparer or his mother?  

[IRonMaN]

Bob - evidently we lived in a more complex time period where we had to provide actual honest to goodness paper copies to clients for them to sign and mail on a daily basis --------------- without ever having to get their mothers involved in the process 😀