Gideon Send
Fax a form to the IRS. The right number, and proof it went.
The IRS still takes some forms by fax, and prints a fax number on many of its letters. Almost nobody has a fax machine, and the hard part was never the machine: it is knowing which number. Send knows, says where it is written, sends your signed pages, and keeps the receipt.
What are you sending?
Form 2553
The S corporation election. It must be signed by an officer and consented to by every shareholder.
Form SS-4
An EIN for a business, estate or trust. By fax, the IRS says the EIN comes back generally within 4 business days.
Form 2848
Authorizes an individual to represent you before the IRS.
Form 8821
Lets a person or firm inspect and receive your confidential tax information, without representing you.
Form 8655
Authorizes a reporting agent to sign and file certain returns and make deposits for a business.
Form 8508
Asks the IRS to let an issuer file information returns on paper for the year.
Answering a letter from the IRS
The IRS wrote, and printed a fax number on the letter. Your answer goes to that number, with a cover sheet that says which letter it answers.
Each form's page says where the IRS takes it, in the IRS's own words, free. Not here? The IRS does not take it by fax, as far as its own instructions say; its page names mail or an online tool instead.
What the receipt proves, and what it does not
Delivered means the fax machine at the IRS's number confirmed every page, at a time Send records, with a copy of exactly the pages that went. The IRS does not acknowledge a fax: delivered does not mean read, processed, accepted or timely, and Send never says it does. The receipt tells you what the IRS says happens next, and when to follow up.
What it costs
$3 a sending for the first 30 pages, then 10¢ a page. One sending is one set of pages to one number. Nothing is charged for a sending that is not delivered: the payment is refunded in full.
What we do with your pages
Sent, kept encrypted so you can download the receipt and the pages for 30 days, then deleted. Nobody at Gideon reads them, and nothing is read out of them by software. Your Social Security number is never on the cover sheet.
Sending opens soon. The lookup — where the IRS takes each form by fax, and the rules — is here now, free.