Incarcerated Taxpayer

[CLAUDIATRACY]

Taxpayer worked all of 2024. He and his wife both had income. He was incarcerated after the first of 2025. Can they E-file? How do I obtain his signature?

[Taxprohere]

Slip it in the cake, along with the nail file?

[Just-Lisa-Now-]

The logistics of getting his signature is something the wife will have to work out, Im sure its not unheard of for prisoners to have to sign documents they must have a system.

[ljr]

maybe they thought about him needing to sign things while away and they got a POA for her to be able to sign? If not, I guess she will have to bring it to him when she goes to visit. . . . . . 

[CLAUDIATRACY]

Really? Not funny!

[IRonMaN]

To be honest, I thought it was funny.  Tax season is a long, stressful stretch of time.  Sometimes you have to lighten up and smile once in a while.  If not, you run the risk of ending up in a rubber room someplace counting license plates without ever actually being able to see a car. 

As a side note, for those of us that have been around here for awhile, we see this question getting asked at least a couple of times every year so folks somehow figure out how to get a signature to file the return.

[sjrcpa]

If it gets paper filed, the answer is the same. Somehow the prisoner has to sign, unless spouse has a POA authorizing the signature.

[Frustrated-in-IL]

First, take a deep breath.

Second, wait a week.  The way they are being handed out from both sides of the aisle, there is a good chance your client will be pardoned by then.

[IRonMaN]

It’s the Golden Age for being a criminal.  Although I don’t know what the penalty is for using a paper straw so I would probably stick with using plastic straws in public.