At DiSabatino CPA, protecting your privacy is absolutely paramount to us!  We want to assure you that we hold all your tax and financial information in the strictest confidence.

Federal law requires us to obtain your consent before we use or disclose your tax return information for purposes other than preparing your return. We are well aware of the rules and restrictions involving the use and/or disclosure of your return information, and we take our obligations extremely seriously. I trust that this will bring you up to date on the rules that we must follow when handling your tax return information.

These new rules give you even greater control over the use of your tax return information. Unless the law allows us otherwise (in very limited circumstances), we can not disclose, without your signed permission, your tax return information to third parties for purposes other than for the purposes of preparing your tax return.

What is "tax return information?"
Tax return information is all the information we obtain from you or other sources in any form or manner that is used to prepare your income tax return or is obtained in connection with the preparation of your return. It also includes all computations, worksheets, and printouts preparers create; correspondence from IRS received during the preparation, filing and correction of returns; statistical compilations of tax return information; and tax return preparation software registration information.

The rules allow us to make two types of disclosures:

• Certain disclosures requiring your consent, and
• Certain permissible disclosures without your consent.

Disclosures/Uses That Do Not Require Your Consent
The only disclosures of your tax return information that we can make without your consent are to:

• Other U.S.-based tax return preparers assisting in the preparation of your return;
• The IRS and other taxing jurisdictions;
• Disclosures permitted under another provision of the Tax Code;
• The courts; and
• Disclosures for the purpose of obtaining legal advice.

Disclosures/Uses Requiring Your Consent

Consents to disclose or use your tax return information -- paper or electronic -- must contain certain specific information. Every consent form must include:

• Your name and the taxpayer's name;
• The nature of the disclosure(s);
• To whom the disclosures will be made;
• Details on the information being disclosed;
• The particular use authorized;
• The product or service for which the tax return information will be used.

Your confidence in us is important and we want you to know that your personal and account information is safe. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.