Because Forms 8915-E and 7202 are new and impacted by recent legislation, IRS has provided alternatives for these forms to be included with an e-filed return. Some software providers allow the forms to be attached as a pdf, others as a statement attached to the filing. As an alternative to attaching a PDF of Form 8915-E or 7202, to increase e-filing and reduce paper filing, software providers may instead include with the e-filed return a general dependency statement that includes all the information requested on Form 8915-E or 7202 if they are unable to attach a PDF of the form. Such a statement should look similar to the following for Form 8915-E, or correspondingly similar for Form 7202. Forms that have been typically filed as a PDF in the past, such as Form 8915-E, or other new forms not yet on XML, should still be sent in as a PDF.
Form 8915-E
Name xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx
SSN xxxxxxxxx
worksheet 2 x
Disaster xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Disaster Date xx/xx/xxxx
Line 1 xx/xx/xxxx
Line 1a 100000
Line 1b 100000
Line 1c 100000
Line 2 xx/xx/xxxx
Line 2a 100000
Line 2b 100000
Line 2c 100000
Line 3 xx/xx/xxxx
Line 3a 100000
Line 3b 100000
Line 3c 100000
Line 4a 100000
Lin 4b 100000
Line 4c 100000
Line 5 100000
Line 6 100000
Line 7 100000
Line 8 100000
Line 9 opt-out x
Line 9 100000
Line 10 100000
Line 11 100000
Line 12 Yes/No
Line 13 100000
Line 14 100000
Line 15 100000
Line 16 100000
Line 17 x
Line 17 100000
Line 18 100000
Line 19 100000
Disaster xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Line 20 Yes/No
Line 21 100000
Line 22 100000
Line 23 100000
Line 24 100000
Line 25 100000