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Employer Identification NumberInformation about Employer Identification Numbers (EIN), also known as a Federal Tax Identification Number. An EIN is used to identify a business entity.
Apply for an Employer Identification Number (EIN) online
Information about how to apply online for an Employer Identification Number.
Do you need a new EIN?
Generally, businesses need a new EIN when their ownership or structure has changed.
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Income Verification Express Service faxing for participants
Income Verification Express Service (IVES) participants who have received taxpayer consent can use the faxing option to receive transcripts in approximately 2-3 business days.
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Individuals, Businesses
Leaders of a methamphetamine trafficking organization sentenced to decades in federal prison
December 16, 2021 — An Indianapolis man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James R. Sweeney to over 27 years in prison following his conviction at trial for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
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News Media
SOI tax stats - SOI Bulletin: Fall 2021
The Statistics of Income (SOI) Bulletin is issued quarterly by the Statistics of Income Division of the Internal Revenue Service. The report provides the earliest published annual financial statistics obtained from the various types of tax and information returns filed, as well as information from periodic or special analytical studies of particular interest to students of the U.S. tax system, tax policymakers, and tax administrators. Selected historical and other data tables, previously published in the spring issue of the Bulletin are now only available on SOI’s pages of the IRS Website.
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Tax Professionals
12th Annual IRS-TPC Joint Research Conference on Tax Administration
The Internal Revenue Service and the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center invite you to virtually attend the only annual conference focused exclusively on tax administration research. Researchers from the IRS, other government agencies, academia, and private organizations will discuss some of the latest analyses seeking to make tax administration as effective as possible. The presentations and discussions will be streamed live via Zoom Webinar, and the audience will be able to submit questions for the discussions.
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Exempt organizations: What are employment taxes?
A brief explanation of employment tax requirements applicable to tax-exempt organizations.
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Charities and Nonprofits
Appeals mediation programs
Summarizes Appeals’ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), or mediation, programs and provides links to various programs based on both the type of taxpayer and stage of the IRS process.
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Illegal alien sentenced in multimillion-dollar wire and tax fraud scheme
Jacksonville, FL – United States District Court Judge Wendy W. Berger has sentenced Ana Juanita Andrade-Reyes, a Honduran national illegally present in United States, to 37 months in federal prison in connection with her conviction for three counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit tax fraud. The court also ordered Andrade-Reyes to pay restitution to the IRS in the amount of $2,084,182. The court also entered a money judgment against Andrade-Reyes in the amount of $664,588, representing the proceeds of the wire fraud.
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National Tax Security Awareness Week, Day 5: Security Summit partners remind businesses to tighten security; be aware of steps to help prevent, protect data loss
IR-2021-241, December 3, 2021 — The Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies and the nation’s tax industry urged businesses to be alert to cyberattacks aimed at gaining access to business data and customer information and be aware of steps to help them on tax-related issues related to identity theft.
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News Media, Businesses
Taxpayers can now upload more documents to IRS; new online option for 9 notices can help resolve issues faster
IR-2023-29, Feb. 16, 2023 — The Internal Revenue Service announced today that taxpayers who receive certain notices requiring them to send information to the IRS now have the option of submitting their documentation online through IRS.gov.
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Individuals, News Media, Tax Professionals
Updating frozen defined benefit plans for current law and other compliance issues
During the Frozen Plan Amendments project, the Employee Plans Compliance Unit looked at whether sponsors of frozen defined benefit plans had amended their plans for the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.
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Administrators