On-line EINs now available from IRS

Beginning Tuesday, October 9, 2007, taxpayers can apply for a federal Employer Identification Number (EIN) online and get it before disconnecting from the Internal Revenue Service website.

The IRS calls this innovation an “interview-style” application.

This new process, explained by the IRS here, supplants the former process of online completion of an IRS Form SS-4.

For more information, see Neil Hendershot, PA EE&F Law Blog, IRS “Interviews” for EINs, Oct. 8, 2007.