CURRENT-YEAR TAX PREPARATION ENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT
Titan Tax and Financial Services ("we," "us," or "our") will prepare and electronically file your current-year individual federal and applicable state or local return. This includes Schedule C for sole-proprietor or single-member LLC activity when applicable and supported by adequate records.
1. SERVICES INCLUDED
We will review the information you submit, request clarification when needed, prepare and review the return, obtain signatures, e-file, correct filing rejections related to our preparation, and provide routine processing, identity-verification, refund-verification, and refund-status assistance through funding or final processing. Separate services begin if the matter becomes an audit, amendment, appeal, collection case, fraud investigation, or other matter outside routine processing.
2. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
You must provide complete and accurate tax information and all requested forms, notices, records, receipts, mileage logs, identification documents, and supporting documents. Review the completed return before signing, report missing or corrected information promptly, and keep copies of your filed returns and records. You remain responsible for information reported on your return.
3. SCHEDULE C CLIENTS
You must support all business income, expenses, business-use percentages, mileage, inventory, home-office expenses, contractor payments, worker classifications, and required Forms 1099. We may refuse unsupported, unreasonable, or unlawful positions.
4. VERIFICATION
We make reasonable inquiries and may request proof to meet tax-preparer due-diligence rules, but we do not audit or independently verify every item. Estimates are used only when legally permitted and reasonably supported. We may pause or end the engagement if required information is not provided.
5. TWO-BUSINESS-DAY DOCUMENT DEADLINE
Requested documents must be submitted within two business days after preparation begins. If they are not received, we may place the return in inactive status and invoice or charge the authorized payment method for work already completed. A $100 reactivation fee must be paid before work resumes on an inactive return.
6. FEES AND PAYMENT
All unpaid prior-year balances must be paid before we begin the current-year return. This is actual tax preparation—not a quote, estimate, or fee-only review. Once you authorize us to begin and preparation work is performed, the assessed fee is earned even if you later choose not to sign, e-file, or file through Titan Tax and Financial Services. Fees must be paid before e-filing unless you qualify for an eligible third-party refund-transfer option.
If payment through the refund cannot be completed after filing, the unpaid balance is invoiced and due immediately. This includes a delayed or reduced refund, an offset, a refund applied to another debt, a deposit outside the selected refund-transfer process, or a paper check issued directly to you.
7. COMPLETED RETURN AND 24-HOUR POLICY
After we notify you that the return is complete, you have 24 hours to sign the return documents or submit a specific written question or good-faith fee dispute. If you do neither, the fee for completed preparation work becomes immediately due. With your separate authorization below, we may invoice the fee and charge the authorized payment method on file. A declined charge does not cancel the balance.
8. SEPARATE SERVICES
Audits, examinations, amendments, appeals, collections, penalty requests, substantive notice responses, prior-year returns, bookkeeping, payroll, business-entity returns, record reconstruction, and work caused by omitted, inaccurate, or late information require a separate agreement and fee.
9. FILING, REFUNDS, AND DEADLINES
We will not file until required information, signatures, authorizations, and payment arrangements are complete. You are responsible for filing and payment deadlines. An extension to file is not an extension to pay. We do not guarantee acceptance, tax results, refund amounts, processing time, funding, refund-transfer eligibility, or advance approval.
10. COMMUNICATIONS, PRIVACY, AND ACCEPTANCE
You authorize engagement-related contact using the information you provide. Do not send Social Security numbers, banking information, or complete tax documents through unsecured email or text. We will handle tax-return information under applicable confidentiality rules. Either party may end the engagement before filing, but you remain responsible for completed work and all deadlines. Electronic acceptance has the same effect as a handwritten signature where permitted by law.