Form 944 - Designed so the smallest employers (those whose annual liability for social security, Medicare, and withheld federal income taxes is $1,000 or less) will file and pay these taxes only once a year instead of every quarter.
Form 2848 - Power of Attorney and Declaration of Representative - Is the power of attorney we were using to get access to client's records. Client's would sign this at the time of the contract.
Form 8821 - Tax Information Authorization is permission to pull transcripts and is the new form we're using in place of the power of attorney. We now have Geri's name on these forms, and starting with April returns I will be able to pull transcripts. We are having clients sign new 8821 forms for the ones that had 2848 issues due to CAF fail issues.
CAF (Centralized Authorization File) number is added to any request to pull transcripts from the IRS. This is how they track who pulled your transcripts.