8453 2023-2024 Form

Instructions and help about 8453 information form

for this video i want to cover the irs form 8453 which is a transmittal form for certain types of documents that you might need to submit with your 1040. so i've got one slide in front of us here covering kind of what this form is and when you may need it with an example and then we'll go through a sample 8453 and how to submit to the irs so what is this form this is a form where you have to paper file additional documents to the irs and so this works as kind of a cover sheet alright so when the taxpayer electronically files their 1040 there might be cases where they have to provide additional information to the irs or they have to file a form with their 1040 an actual irs form that's not supported for e-filing purposes okay so believe it or not there are actual forms that the irs has that are actually part of tax return prep software but the software itself or the irs doesn't accept it for e-filing purposes so for example and the one we're going to look at here is the 8332 so the 833