Actually, there should be two section A entries -- one for the attorney's client, and the other for the attorney (or law office), as the owner of the account. Don't forget to complete a Section B entry for the warm body that made the deposit.
This thread reminds me why I don't like the practice of assigning the IOLTA Committee's EIN to IOLTA accounts. For systems that aggregate at the TIN level, it causes problems. There is the problem illustrated in the lead question in this thread, and there is the problem of possibly missing a CTR if part of a day's cash deposits go to an IOLTA account and part to the law office's own account or to a separate escrow account under the law office's name.
There's also the problem that it complicates a bank's CIP, because the bank has to consider the law firm (or lawyer) the customer, and collect that person's TIN for CIP, even if the bank will use the IOLTA Committee's EIN for reporting.
It would be so much easier if the proper TIN for the customer is used, and the account is flagged not to create a 1099.
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