Need an EIN? You’ll have to wait a few days to apply for an EIN online. The IRS has announced that the service is temporarily unavailable: This service will be unavailable from approximately 5 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, Dec 23, 2020, until approximately 7 a.m. Eastern time on Monday, January 4, 2021, due to…
The IRS has announced that as of May 21, 2012, it will issue only one employer identification number (EIN) per responsible party each day. The limitation applies to all requests online, by phone, fax, or mail. No idea what this is about, folks, but I have to think it’s related to some kind of effort…
If you read the blog regularly, you are aware that there are a bunch of emails that pop up from time to time purporting to be from the IRS, asking you to click on all kinds of links or submit personal information. This sort of thing is a scam. That said, a reader sent me…
Just a few months after I reported seeing a bump in scam e-mails purporting to be from the IRS, a new version is making the rounds. The new version is very similar to the prior version. As before, the header is a variation on Federal Tax payment canceled or Your Federal Tax Transaction. The ones…