Form 2848 authorizes someone to represent you before the IRS. Load the official PDF, type your details directly onto it, add a signature, and download the completed form — entirely inside your browser, with nothing uploaded.
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Form 2848, Power of Attorney and Declaration of Representative, authorizes a specific person — an attorney, CPA, enrolled agent, or in limited cases a family member — to discuss your tax matters with the IRS and act on your behalf for the tax years and matters you specify. It is commonly needed by taxpayers working with an accountant during an audit, a business owner authorizing a tax professional, or anyone who wants a representative to handle a specific IRS matter without being present themselves.
Filling the PDF is only the first step — Form 2848 still needs to reach the IRS through one of its accepted channels: by mail or fax to the address or fax number listed in the current Form 2848 instructions for your state, or securely uploaded through the IRS's own "Submit Forms 2848 and 8821 Online" tool if you have an IRS online account (only use one of these methods — don't submit the same form twice). Addresses and fax numbers are updated periodically, so check the current instructions on irs.gov rather than relying on an old copy.
If you landed here looking for Form 5500 or Form 5500-SF (the annual return/report for an employee benefit plan): those must be filed electronically through the Department of Labor's EFAST2 system, using either EFAST2-approved software or the DOL's free IFILE tool — a filled PDF on its own does not complete that filing. The exception is Form 5500-EZ (for one-participant and certain foreign plans), which can still be paper-filed with the IRS in some cases; PaperLite can help you fill a paper-eligible Form 5500-EZ, or prepare a working copy of any of these forms for internal review before you enter the data into EFAST2's IFILE tool. Requesting a filing extension uses Form 5558, which is also a straightforward PDF to fill here. Always confirm your plan's specific filing requirement on efast.dol.gov before choosing a method.
No. The PDF is opened and filled entirely inside your own browser. Nothing is sent to a server, which matters given how much personal and financial information a power-of-attorney form contains.
For Form 2848 submitted by mail or fax, the IRS requires a handwritten signature — a typed name is not accepted. You can sign on paper and photograph or scan it as a transparent PNG, or sign digitally if you're using the IRS's online upload option, which has its own accepted electronic-signature methods.
No. This tool only fills the PDF. You still need to submit it yourself by mail, fax, or the IRS's own online upload tool, as described above.
You can fill either one here. Whether that filled PDF is enough to complete your filing depends on which form and plan type you have — see the Form 5500 section above before you submit anything.
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