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We are pleased to confirm our understanding of the arrangements for your income tax return(s) . This letter confirms the services you have asked our firm to perform and the terms under which we have agreed to do that work. Please read this letter carefully because it is important to both our firm and you that you understand what you can and cannot expect from our work. In other words, we want you to know the limitations of the services you have asked us to perform. If you are confused at all by this letter or believe we have misunderstood what you need, please call us before you sign it.  \n2. This engagement letter represents the entire agreement regarding the services described herein and supersedes all prior negotiations, proposals, representations or agreements, written or oral, regarding these services. It shall be binding on the heirs, successors and assigns of you and us. The Internal Revenue Service imposes penalties on taxpayers, and on us as return preparers, for failure to observe due care in reporting for income tax returns. In order to ensure an understanding of our mutual responsibilities, we ask all clients for whom we prepare tax returns to confirm the following arrangements. We will prepare the returns from information which you will furnish to us. It is your responsibility to provide all the information required for the preparation of complete and accurate returns. We will furnish you with any questionnaires and/or worksheets that you request to guide you in gathering the necessary information. Your use of such forms will assist us in keeping our fee to a minimum. To the extent we render any accounting and/or bookkeeping assistance, including (but not limited to) telephone calls, letters, emails and 3rd party consultations it will be limited to those tasks we deem necessary for preparation of the returns and will be billed at our standard billing rate of $75 per hour, billed in ¼ hour increments.  \nTax Preparer Responsibilities  \n3. We will prepare your 2020 , and only your 2020 Federal and Specific State(s)/Cities:   Trust Income Tax Form 1041 and the related Federal and Specific State(s)/Cities Trust Form 1041 income tax return schedules from information you furnish us. We will not audit, review, compile or otherwise verify the data you submit although we may ask you to clarify some of the information. Our minimum fee to prepare a trust federal tax return is $525, and your fee will be based upon our fee per form schedule plus any hourly charges incurred as discussed in number 2 above. We are not responsible for returns prepared by other preparers. If you have taxable activity in a state/city other than that specifically listed you are responsible for providing our firm with all information necessary to prepare any additional applicable state(s)or local income tax returns as well as informing us of the applicable states. We will prepare only those state/city returns specifically listed above.  \n4. We are responsible for preparing only the specific trust income tax forms for the specified reporting agencies listed in this letter. Any other required services, forms or other actions on our part require a separate engagement letter. In the absence of written communications from us documenting such services, our services will be limited to and governed by the terms of this engagement letter. Our services are not intended to determine whether you have filing requirements in taxing jurisdictions other than the one(s) of which you have requested in paragraph 3 above.  \nTaxpayer Responsibilities  \n5. Please note that any person or entity subject to the jurisdiction of the United States (includes individuals, corporations , partnerships, trusts, and estates) having a financial interest in, or signature or other authority over, bank accounts, securities, or other financial accounts having an aggregate value exceeding $10,000 in a foreign country, shall report such a relationship. 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