• Your business entity type.
• The Social Security number or taxpayer ID number of the responsible party in control of your business or organization.

You need an EIN if you:

• Have employees
• Will need to pay employment, excise or alcohol, tobacco, and firearms taxes
• Withhold taxes on income, other than wages, paid to a non-resident alien

If you don’t need an EIN for federal tax purposes, you can still request one for banking or state tax purposes. EINs are not intended for other activities, such as state tax lien auctions, sales or lotteries.

You also need an EIN to operate any of these entities:

• Partnership
• Limited liability company (LLC)
• Corporation
• Tax-exempt organization
• Estate
• Trust PDF (except certain grantor-owned revocable trusts)
• Retirement plan or individual retirement account (IRA)
• Real estate mortgage investment conduit
• Farmers’ cooperative

Find more in Understanding Your EIN, Publication 1635 PDF.

Absolutely. You can file for an EIN for free directly with the IRS.

According to the IRS, completing the EIN documentation will take:

• 8 hrs and 36 min for recordkeeping.
• 42 min for learning about the form.
• 52 min to prepare, copy, assemble and send the form to the IRS.

eBusinessDocs.com can do all of this for your, for a fee, with only about 5 minutes of your time to go through out questionnaire. We’ll handle everything else, respond to questions from the IRS and email you with your new EIN as soon as it’s ready.

You can use your EIN immediately for most business needs. For example, when you:

• Open a bank account
• Apply for business licenses
• File a tax return by mail

Wait up to 2 weeks to:

• Pass an IRS Taxpayer ID Number (TIN) Matching Program
• E-file a tax return
• Make tax deposits and pay electronically – See Circular E, Employer’s Tax Guide, Publication 15, when you receive your EIN and EFTPS Express Enrollment for New Businesses, Publication 4275 PDF

If your tax return is due and you haven’t received your EIN, write “Applied For” and the date that you applied for it in the space shown for the number.

If you don’t have your EIN by the time a deposit is due send your payment to the service center address for your state. Make your check or money order payable to Internal Revenue Service and show your name (as shown on the SS-4), address, kind of tax, period covered, and the date you applied for your EIN.

On the EIN application, you must name the person in charge of the entity and its assets, called the responsible party. The application must generally include the responsible party’s:

• Name
• Social Security, individual taxpayer ID, or employer identification number (for entities)
• Signature

Nominees are not authorized to apply for an EIN. A nominee who applies for an EIN puts the entity’s information and privacy at risk.

Form your entity first: If you’re creating a legal entity (LLC, partnership, corporation), register it with your state before you apply for an EIN. This includes tax exempt organizations.

Tax exempt organizations: Don’t apply for an EIN until your organization is legally formed. Most organizations (see exceptions) are subject to automatic revocation of their tax-exempt status if required returns or notices aren’t filed for 3 consecutive years.

Political organizations: You must have an EIN to file Form 8871, Political Organization Notice of Section 527 Status. File this form within 24 hours of creating your organization to become tax exempt.

While you can file for an EIN directly with the IRS, it can be a time consuming and confusing processes.  

At eBusinessDocs, we file EINs all day long and take the hassle and confusion out of the process for our customers.  We prepare the docs using your responses to simple questions, file with the IRS, and respond to any questions the IRS may have about your filing.  

If for some reason we can’t get you your EIN, we will give you a 100% refund, no questions asked.