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Add the buyer’s intake, the purchase agreement, the deed, the settlement statement, the withholding certificate and the escrow reconciliation. Fyllyo fills Form 8288 on your Mac. Anything the documents disagree on is left for you, with the reason.
Form 8288 is filled from a stack of closing papers written by different people: the buyer, the title company, the IRS and the preparer. The same sale shows up as a contract price, a holdback, a certificate amount and a release, each with its own date. Software reading those papers has to tell them apart. These are the common places AI tools and autofill get it wrong. What the form requires is for the IRS to say. Follow its instructions. IRS instructions for Form 8288.
The contract price is the number everyone quotes, but a sale can include more than cash, such as property handed over in an addendum. Software that copies the price, or the client’s own figure, can report less than the papers add up to.
At closing the title company often holds back a large amount while a withholding certificate is pending, then releases part of it. Software can report the holdback as the amount withheld, or count the holdback and the later payment as two amounts.
A purchase has a contract date, a closing date, a recording date, and with a certificate an application date, an issue date and a release date. Software often takes the first date it finds for each box.
A filing packet lists Copy A and Copy B of each Form 8288-A, plus copies of the certificate and the application. Software that counts the papers reports more forms than are attached.
With a test client and seven documents (intake notes, a purchase agreement with an addendum, a deed, a settlement statement, a withholding certificate, an escrow reconciliation and the preparer’s notes), Fyllyo filled 13 fields in 21 seconds. It left 3 for the preparer, each with the reason.
Fyllyo can fill all 54 fields on Form 8288 from the client’s documents. Lines the documents don’t support stay blank and are listed for you to check.
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Fyllyo reads the documents you already have. These can be PDFs, scans, photos, Word files or typed notes, and you can add several at once. Fyllyo works out which document answers which line.
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Fyllyo doesn’t decide what to file, give legal or tax advice, or submit Form 8288 for you. Use the IRS’s instructions for Form 8288 and your professional judgement. Fyllyo does the reading and the typing.
The built-in Form 8288 is the Rev. January 2023 edition. For a different edition, add that fillable PDF as your own form. You set it up once, then fill it like this one. Set up that fillable PDF as your own form →
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