99 Lantern Dr, Ste. 301, PO Box 2044
Doylestown, PA 18901
Office: (215)348-9511
Fax: (215)348-9490

Thank you for choosing De Novo Tax and Advisors ("Firm") to assist you with your taxes. This agreement confirms the terms of our engagement with you and outlines the nature and extent of the services we will provide. Any specific services requested by you not provided for in this engagement agreement ("Agreement") may require an additional engagement agreement to cover such requested services. Services that are not specifically identified and defined in this Agreement will not be performed by the Firm.

We will prepare your Federal, State(s) tax return(s) and Local tax return(s) as required and identified below. In preparing your returns, we may use in-house or external processing capabilities with tax preparers being both on site and in remote locations. Secure data transmission processes are in place for document transfers. The Firm uses Drake Software, a nationally recognized tax preparation software, to prepare and electronically file each of your returns.

Applicable Returns:
Form 1041 U.S. Income Tax Return for Estates and Trusts
PA-41 PA Fiduciary Income Tax Return or other state returns as required
Local Tax Returns as required

The Firm will depend on you to provide the tax information necessary to prepare a complete and accurate tax return(s). We may ask you to clarify or provide additional information necessary to complete a tax return, but we will not audit or otherwise verify the data that you submit. If you supply incomplete or incorrect data, it may delay the preparation of your return or cause your return to be prepared incorrectly. Submission of incorrect or incomplete data used to prepare your return is solely your responsibility. If the information is incomplete or incorrect, you assume responsibility for any penalties or interest charged by the Internal Revenue Service or state and local taxing authorities for incomplete or incorrect returns.

It is your responsibility to provide all the information necessary to complete all required federal, state, and local returns. As Executor or Trustee, it is your responsibility to provide us with a list of all beneficiary's names, addresses and social security numbers and each beneficiary's percentage of the estate or trust. Additionally, it is your responsibility to provide us with a copy of the will and/or trust document(s). You represent that the information you are supplying to us is accurate and complete to the best of your knowledge and that you have disclosed to us all relevant facts affecting the returns. Our services are not intended to determine whether you have filing requirements in taxing jurisdictions other than those of which you have informed us.

The Firm must use its professional judgment in resolving questions where the tax law is unclear or where there may be conflicting interpretations of the law. To avoid penalties, we will explain the possible positions, and we will adopt whatever position you request if it is consistent with relevant tax authority and professional standards.

99 Lantern Dr, Ste. 301, PO Box 2044
Doylestown, PA 18901
Office: (215)348-9511
Fax: (215)348-9490

If the return requires and estimated tax payments where we have provided you with payment vouchers and you choose not to pay such vouchers on a timely basis, you are responsible for any penalties and interest associated with such failure to pay in a timely manner.

To ensure that your return(s) are filed by the filing due date, all tax information, documentation, and information must be in our offices by March 1st. Information received after that date will not guarantee that your return will be filed in a timely manner and may require the filing of a request for automatic extension. If you know that you will be required to file an extension, the process can be expedited by contacting our office and requesting the extension as soon as possible. Notification of your desire to file an extension is your responsibility and our firm will not be responsible for contacting you to determine if you need to file an extension. Extensions are not automatic and require the client to authorize such filing. As a reminder, an extension provides 5.5 months of additional time to prepare and file the return. However, it is NOT an extension of time for payment of tax purposes. If an extension is applied for and tax is estimated to be due, it is your responsibility to ensure that any such tax is paid with the extension.

We will prepare the above referenced tax returns solely for filing with the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") and state and local tax authorities as identified in Applicable Returns within this agreement. Our work is not intended to benefit or influence any third party, such as to obtain credit. Under no circumstances will we respond to any request from banks, mortgage brokers, or others for verification of any information reported on these returns.

You agree to indemnify and hold our firm and its partners, principals, shareholders, officers, directors, members, employees, agents or assigns harmless with respect to all claims arising from the use of the tax returns for any purpose other than filing with the IRS and state and local tax authorities regardless of the nature of the claim, including the negligence of any party.

If you provide the firm with copies of brokerage, investment advisor or cryptocurrency tax statements, we will use the information solely for the purposes of completing your tax return(s). We will rely on the accuracy of the information provided in the statements and will not undertake any action to verify this information. We will not monitor transactions, investment activity, provide investment advice, or supervise the actions of the entity or individuals entering transactions or investment activities on your behalf. We recommend that you carefully review all statements upon receipt and direct any questions regarding account activity to your banker, broker, or investment advisor.

The I.R.S. considers virtual currency (e.g., Bitcoin) as property for U.S. federal income tax purposes. As such, any transactions in, or transactions that use virtual currency are subject to the same general tax principles that apply to other property transactions.

If you had virtual currency activity during the tax year, you may be subject to tax consequences associated with such transactions and may have additional reporting obligations. You agree to provide us with complete and accurate information regarding any transactions in, or transactions that have used virtual currency during the applicable tax year.

99 Lantern Dr, Ste. 301, PO Box 2044
Doylestown, PA 18901
Office: (215)348-9511
Fax: (215)348-9490

Internal Revenue Code §7525 Confidentiality Privileges Related to Taxpayer Communication, provides a limited confidentiality privilege applying to the tax advice embodied in taxpayer communications with federally authorized tax practitioners in certain limited situations. This privilege is limited in several important respects. For example, the privilege may not apply to your records, state tax issues, state tax proceedings, private civil litigation, proceeding, or criminal proceedings.

While we will cooperate with you with respect to the privilege, asserting the privilege is your responsibility. Inadvertent disclosure of otherwise privileged information may result in a waiver of the privilege. Please contact the Firm immediately if you have any questions or need further information about this federally authorized practitioner-client privilege.

It is your responsibility to provide complete tax information to us in a timely manner so that we can prepare your tax return in time for you to file it by the due dates. You also have the final responsibility for the tax returns and, therefore, once you have received them, you should carefully review the returns to determine that there are no omissions or misstatements before signing them and submitting them to the tax authorities or authorizing e-filing of the returns.

The Firm will use its best judgement to resolve questions in your favor where a tax law is unclear, if we have a reasonable belief that there is substantial authority for doing so. If there are conflicting interpretations of the law, we will explain the possible positions that may be taken on your return. We will follow the position you request, provided it is consistent with our understanding of the tax reference materials. Tax reference materials include, but are not limited to, the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), tax regulations, Revenue Rulings, Revenue Procedures, Private Letter Ruling, court cases, and similar state and local guidance. We assume no liability, and you hereby release us from any liability including but not limited to, additional tax penalties, interest, and related professional fees.

Not every interpretation of promulgated tax rules is straightforward and/or without uncertainty. Accordingly, we will use our professional judgment in preparing your returns. If a tax authority should later contest a position taken, or otherwise impose penalties and/or interest for non-compliance with tax laws and regulations, there may be an assessment of additional tax plus interest and/or penalties. We assume no liability for any such additional assessments. Any items resolved against you by the examining agent are subject to certain rights of appeal. In the event of an examination, we may be available to represent you. Since the selection of your return for review or examination is beyond our control, our fee to prepare your returns does not include responding to inquiries or examinations by tax authorities. In the event we are required by law, government regulation, subpoena, or other legal process, to produce documents or testimony with respect to this Agreement, so long as we are not a party to the proceeding in which the information is sought, you agree to reimburse us for our professional time and expenses, as well as the fees and expenses of our counsel incurred in responding to such demands.

If your estate or trust has beneficiaries, you must provide all information necessary for those foreign beneficiaries necessary to complete the appropriate returns. Such information would include Name,

99 Lantern Dr, Ste. 301, PO Box 2044
Doylestown, PA 18901
Office: (215)348-9511
Fax: (215)348-9490

Address, and any Identifying numbers such as an employment identification number or social security number.

You are responsible for informing us of all foreign assets owned directly or indirectly, including but not limited to financial accounts with foreign institutions, other foreign non-account investments, and ownership of any foreign entities, regardless of amounts. If upon review of the information you have provided to us, including information that comes to our attention, we believe that you may have additional filing obligations, we will notify you.

Failure to timely file the required forms may result in substantial civil and/or criminal penalties. With your signature below, you agree to provide us with complete and accurate information regarding any foreign investments in which you have a direct or indirect interest, or over which you have signature authority, during the tax year.

As a Firm, we do not prepare any foreign tax returns. If you have a foreign tax return requirement, it would be your responsibility to secure a tax accountant who is familiar with any return requirements for the country(s) requiring such tax returns.

Fees for our services will be charged according to our standard fee schedule for tax return preparation services, which are based on the complexity of your returns (number and type of required forms and schedules and other time considerations). Our services will conclude upon delivery of the completed tax returns or upon our withdrawal from the engagement, if earlier. Fees are considered earned when payment is received or services concluded, whichever is earlier. Invoices are due and payable on the presentation to you. Past due balances may be subject to finance and collection charges. Fees for any accounting work undertaken to produce appropriate financial statements will be charged as part of the fee for tax return preparation services.

Our firm may utilize electronic communications (e.g., fax and email) during this engagement. You consent to our Firm's use of electronic communications and recognize and accept the inherent risks related to these forms of communication (including the security risks of interception of or unauthorized access to such communications, the risks of corruption of such communications, and the risks of viruses or other harmful intrusions). Our Firm, in recognition of these risks, does have secure email capability as well as a secure Internet Portal which allows the secure transmission of documents and other communications.

In the interest of facilitating our services to you, we may send data over the internet, temporarily store electronic data via computer software applications hosted remotely on the internet or utilize cloud- based storage. Your confidential electronic data will be transmitted or stored using these methods. In using these data communication and storage methods, our firm employs measures designed to maintain data security. We use reasonable efforts to keep such communication and electronic data secure in accordance with our obligations under applicable laws, regulations, and professional standards.

You recognize and accept that we have no control over the unauthorized interception or breach of any communications or electronic data once it has been transmitted or if it has been subject to unauthorized

99 Lantern Dr, Ste. 301, PO Box 2044
Doylestown, PA 18901
Office: (215)348-9511
Fax: (215)348-9490

access while stored, notwithstanding all reasonable security measures employed by us. You consent to our use of these electronic devices and applications during this engagement.

Our services under this Agreement do not constitute legal or investment advice. We recommend that you retain legal counsel and investment advisors to provide such advice.

Any advice we may provide is based upon tax reference materials, facts, assumptions, and representations that are subject to change. We will not update our advice after the conclusion of the engagement for subsequent legislative or administrative changes or future judicial interpretations. To the extent we provide written advice concerning federal tax matters, we will follow the guidance contained in I.R.S Circular 230, §10.37, Requirements for Written Advice.

Tax planning Services are not within the scope of this engagement. While preparing the tax returns identified above, we may bring to your attention potential tax savings strategies for you to consider as a possible means of reducing your taxes in subsequent tax years. However, we have no responsibility to do so, and will take no action with respect to such recommendations, as the responsibility for implementation remains with you, the taxpayer. If you ask us to provide tax planning serviced, and we agree to provide them to you, we will confirm this engagement in a separate agreement.

You are responsible for maintaining adequate documentation to substantiate the accuracy and completeness of your tax returns. You should retain all documents that provide evidence and support for reported income, credits, and deductions on your returns. You are responsible for the adequacy of all information provided in such documents. You represent that you have such documentation and can produce it if needed to respond to any audit or inquiry by tax authorities. You agree to hold harmless our firm and its partners, principals, shareholders, officers, directors, members, employees, agents or assigns with respect to any additional tax, penalties, or interest imposed upon you by tax authorities resulting from the disallowance of tax deduction due to inadequate documentation.

You are responsible for the calculation of trust accounting income. We will not audit or otherwise verify the data that you submit, although we may ask you to clarify your calculations.

You are responsible for ensuring any personal expenses are segregated from estate and trust expenses. At your written request, we are available to provide you with written answers to your questions on the types of supporting records required.

Notwithstanding anything contained herein, our firm and you agree that regardless of where you are domiciled and regardless of where this agreement is physically signed, this Agreement shall have been deemed to have been entered in to at the offices of De Novo Tax and Advisors LLC located Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA. Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA shall be the exclusive jurisdiction for resolving

99 Lantern Dr, Ste. 301, PO Box 2044
Doylestown, PA 18901
Office: (215)348-9511
Fax: (215)348-9490

disputes related to this engagement agreement. This engagement shall be interpreted and governed in accordance with the Laws of Pennsylvania.

If a dispute arises out of or relates to this Agreement, or the breach thereof and the dispute cannot be settled through negotiation, the parties agree first to try in good faith to settle the dispute by mediation administered by the American Arbitration Association under the Dispute Resolution Rules for Professional Accounting Services Dispute Resolution Rules before resorting to arbitration, litigation, or some other dispute resolution procedure. The costs of any mediation proceeding shall be shared equally by all parties.

We will return your original records to you at the conclusion of this engagement. You should securely store these records, along with all supporting documents, cancelled checks, etc. as these items may later be needed to prove accuracy and completeness of a return. We will also provide copies of the filed returns for your records. We will retain copies of your records and our work papers for your engagement for seven years, after which these documents will be destroyed. We take every precaution to ensure that your sensitive information is securely stored.

Our engagement to prepare your tax returns will conclude with the delivery of the completed returns to you (if paper filing) or your signing, and the subsequent submittal of your tax return (e-filing). If you choose to opt out of electronic filing, or are not allowed to electronically file, there is an additional charge of $45 to our tax preparation fees. As in previous years, you will remain solely responsible for filing the paper returns with the appropriate tax authorities. Review all tax return documents carefully before signing them, as you are responsible for the content of the return.

We appreciate the opportunity to serve you. To affirm that this Agreement correctly summarizes your understanding of the arrangements for this work, please sign below:

De Novo Tax and Advisors LLC

John R. Hickey III, EA