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Welcome to our regular quarterly edition of the Life Sciences Legal Update, which focuses on key news and events in the life sciences sector in the first quarter of 2023. Find out what...
Brief overview of selected legal and regulatory developments adopted in the Czech Republic and at the European Union level. The first quarter of 2022 marked a...
The US Internal Revenue Service has extended its temporary approval of accepting electronic or digital signatures on certain IRS forms until October 31, 2023, and has expanded the list...
As highlighted in a prior September 10, 2020 LawFlash on this same topic, the IRS had announced on August 28, 2020 the temporary approval of the use of digital signatures in a news release ( IR-2020-194, the News Release). This News Release allowed a limited number of IRS forms to be digitally signed. The Memorandum is broader in scope and provides some clarity on what type of signatures are acceptable. In addition to digital signatures, the Memorandum specifically includes electronic signatures, and the IRS acknowledges that both electronic and digital signatures can appear in “many forms...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The list of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) forms that can be digitally signed continues to grow. On August 28, 2020, the IRS issued a memorandum indicating that it would accept the use of digital signatures on various IRS forms because of the restrictions involved with the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2020, it announced the addition of several more forms. Then, on April 15, 2021, the IRS announced it is extending the authorization to a large number of IRS forms until December 31, 2021. The IRS has not specified which digital sign...