Section 7216 Disclosure Consent

Sprintax is a tax preparation software customized to enable international students in the US to file their Federal, State and FICA tax returns and apply for an ITIN, where needed. Due to the international profile of the Sprintax clients and their tax needs, Sprintax draws on a global team of tax specialists to ensure international double taxation treaties are applied correctly. Sprintax is a product operated by Sprintax and serviced by Sprintax’s international team of tax professionals and preparers.

To ensure your tax return is prepared in a compliant and correct manner, Sprintax draws on the expertise and experience of the international Sprintax tax team. In line with the Internal Revenue Code and U.S. Federal law, you consent to our sharing and storing your data, including your Social Security Number (“SSN”), employment, and tax data, with our international tax team to ensure your tax return is compliant. We may also make your data available to your university’s payroll and finance personnel to allow them to withhold taxes from any scholarships or campus income based on our residency and tax treaty determinations.

Federal law requires this consent form be provided to you. Unless authorized by law, we cannot disclose, without your consent, your tax return information to third parties (our international colleagues will qualify as third parties as they are employed by Sprintax ‘s international affiliates, not by Sprintax, Inc. directly) for purposes other than the preparation and filing of your tax return and, in certain limited circumstances, for purposes involving tax return preparation. If you consent to the disclosure of your tax return information, Federal law may not protect your tax return information from further use or distribution.

You are not required to grant this consent. However, because our ability to disclose your tax return information to another tax return preparer affects the service that we provide to you and its cost, we must decline to provide you with service or change the terms of service that we provide to you if you refuse to grant this consent. If you agree to the disclosure of your tax return information, your consent is valid for one year.

This consent to disclose may result in your tax return information being disclosed to a tax return preparer located outside the United States, including your personally identifiable information such as your SSN. Both the tax return preparer in the United States that will disclose your SSN and the tax return preparer located outside the United States which will receive your SSN maintain an adequate data protection safeguard (as required by the regulations under 26 U.S.C. Section 7216) to protect privacy and prevent unauthorized access of tax return information.

If you consent to the disclosure of your tax return information, Federal agencies may not be able to enforce US laws that protect the privacy of your tax return information against a tax return preparer located outside of the US to which the information is disclosed.

Please note that some of the Sprintax staff and Sprintax affiliates may be located outside the United States.

If you believe your tax return information has been disclosed or used improperly in a manner unauthorized by law or without your permission, you may contact the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) by telephone at 1-800-366-4484, or by email at complaints@tigta.treas.gov. Additionally, if you wish to discuss any of the points raised in this disclosure agreement, please email info@sprintax.com.