Physically signing documents that are emailed to our clients can be very inconvenient. They may not have access to a printer, or may not be able to print, sign and then scan the document.
Since we are preparing more tax returns this year by online correspondence than ever before, we thought a short instructional video on how to digitally sign tax returns and other documents would be useful to our clients.
Please view the short video below, which demonstrates 3 different ways to sign your documents digitally, using only Adobe Acrobat reader.
In this video, you can see that by clicking on "file" at the top left corner of the window, there is an option to "Get documents signed". Clicking on this will bring up an option box on the top right side of the window, titled "I need to sign". From here you can add text, or place a signature in the document using a standard font, adding an image or even drawing your own signature. Any one of these options is acceptable.
If you do have a printer, but not a scanner, you can take a photograph of the signed document with your phone and email it to us. Alternatively, you can use a scanner phone application such as DocScan, which will allow you to convert images to PDF files and email them.