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Receiving Error - Fed employer EIN is invalid for Electronic Filing

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May 11, 2020
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I am receiving a diagnostic error indicating that an employer EIN is invalid for electronic filing. I verified the EIN through our state business registration site. Is there a work-around to get this return electronically filed.

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Best answer by Just-Lisa-Now-

The EIN is 65-0911601. It won't pass final review. I appreciate you testing it. Any other thoughts?

It doesnt flag as an error for me, try deleting that worksheet and start over from scratch with a fresh one.

sjrcpa

Level 15

How can you verify the EIN at the state level? It's an IRS thing.

Locate the letter from the IRS that assigned the EIN.

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

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BizSvc4uAuthor

Level 3

I am aware that the EIN is issued by the IRS, however, it is required when a business renews its registration on our state's business registration site. Since the EIN is for a former employer of my client, there is no way to get the original IRS letter.

BobKamman

Level 15

Where did you find the EIN -- from a W-2?

Did you call the employer? Might not be the first time they were asked. Of course, by now they may be closed or out of business.

Did your client work there in 2018? Did you check that W-2?

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BizSvc4uAuthor

Level 3

The client did not give me a W-4. We are preparing her 2018 return now and she only gave me an IRS Wage and Income Transcript. As you probably know, the IRS no longer provides the entire EIN on the Wage and Income Transcript, however, the last 4 digits that they do provide match the last 4 of the EIN I found on our state business registration site.

My client did not work for this company in 2019 so I don't have that as an option either,

Just-Lisa-Now-

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Ive never seen an EIN be invalid for Efiling....sounds like maybe its not an EIN.

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BizSvc4uAuthor

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I've never seen an EIN invalid for e-file either, however the last 4 of the number I took from our state business registration site matches the last for provided on the Wage and Income Transcript.

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