I want to start filing my clients satr's on-line.
Are there any issues relating to client approval of the return?
ie. how do they approve it? - they do not sign it? Presumably they never actually see what has gone on it?
Iain
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Get the client to sign a paper copy
I'd strongly suggest you get the client to sign a paper copy, and retain this as your evidence of their approval of the return.
what I do
I use Filing By Internet to file my clients' tax returns.
The tax software prints the completed tax return. The software uses the Revenue's algorithm to produce a check-code that is specific to that particular tax return. This code is printed on each page of the tax return. I send the tax return to the client together with an a letter for them to sign. The letter confirms that they have signed the tax return with the code XYXetc and authorise me to submit it to the IR over the internet. The client signs the tax return and the letter. The client keeps the return and sends me the one page letter.
At a talk by the IR guy in charge of their online services, he said that in the event of a query, the IR would want proof from the agent that the client had signed and authorised the return.