Efiling Form 5471 with NO EIN

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The client does not have EIN for their foreign entity which needs to file Form 5471.

Under Critical Diagnostics, it says, The "Employer ID number" of the Foreign Corporation is either missing or invalid. Acceptable entries are "Applied For", "Foreign US" or a valid 9 digit number.

However, there is no way to input "Foreign US" in that box. Is there some way around this? Or maybe does Lacerte allow you to e-file without an EIN?

Thank you in advance.

ProConnect Tax

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sjrcpa

Level 15

Try ForeignUS - no space.

It does work for efiling in Lacerte.

The more I know the more I don’t know.

U

USTaxfromCanadaAuthor

Level 3

It will only let you put in numerical values in the box so you cannot type any letters in the EIN box.

I will give Lacerte a try. Thank you!

sjrcpa

Level 15

ProSeries

Foreign FEIN non-existent and an Error message comes up? Put ForeignUS then EFile with the Errors suppressed. I have also made up a bogus FEIN and explained this was not the FEIN and there wasn't any to be had, I did this just so the software works both methods worked but the ForeignUS version is classier, right?

ForeignUS is the recommended option.

The more I know the more I don’t know.

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