Quick answer
After an EIN application, keep the IRS EIN confirmation or CP 575 letter if issued, the SS-4 worksheet facts used, responsible-party records, the IRS source used, and any fax or mail proof if an offline channel was used. Tax Paperwork does not submit, retrieve, verify, or monitor EIN status.
Source and advice boundary
Use the linked IRS EIN and Form SS-4 pages as official source starting points. This guide is education-only and does not provide tax, legal, accounting, entity-choice, responsible-party, payroll, banking, state-registration, EIN-status, or filing-channel advice.
Records to keep
- The IRS online EIN confirmation page or confirmation notice if the IRS-controlled online application issued one.
- The CP 575 or other IRS EIN assignment letter when received through the official channel.
- The SS-4 worksheet facts used for entity name, responsible party, address, reason, and activity.
- Fax confirmation or mailing proof if the applicant used an IRS fax or mail path instead of the online application.
- Internal records showing who approved the responsible-party and entity facts.
Free IRS path and paid-service boundary
The IRS EIN page says eligible applicants can get an EIN directly from the IRS for free. A fee-based service may sell private assistance, but it does not make the IRS EIN itself cost money.
Tax Paperwork is not a paid EIN filing service, not IRS.gov, and not a status or retrieval service.
When to stop
- The applicant is unsure whether an EIN is needed, who the responsible party is, or which entity type applies.
- Foreign applicant, nominee, payroll, state registration, banking, withholding-agent, estate, trust, or beneficial-owner facts are unresolved.
- The user wants Tax Paperwork to submit an application, retrieve an EIN, verify an EIN, or contact the IRS.
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Tax Paperwork is not tax, legal, accounting, entity-structuring, treaty, fiduciary, valuation, or filing-channel advice. It is not IRS.gov and does not submit, transmit, fax, mail, upload, pay, or monitor IRS paperwork.