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Employer Identification Number

About Employer Identification Number:

An Employer Identification Number (EIN) is a taxpayer identification number for an entity other than an individual, such as a partnership, corporation, estate, or trust.

See Employer Identification Number and Employer Identification Number.

A federal identification number required for businesses that have one or more employees, file returns for employment or excise taxes, maintain a qualified retirement plan, or operate as a corporation, partnership, nonprofit, estate, or trust.

See Excise and Excise.

Description and Definition of Employer Identification Number (EIN)

A nine-digit number assigned by the IRS for businesses, estates, and trusts.

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Related Entries in the American Tax Encyclopedia:

  1. Employer Retirement Plan
  2. Employer
  3. Nondeductibility of Employer Contributions
  4. Qualified Plan
  5. Taxpayer Identification Number
  6. Retirement Plan
  7. Personal Identification Number
  8. Employee Stock Ownership Plan
  9. Key Employee
  10. Deductibility of Employer Contributions
  11. Qualified Retirement Plan
  12. American Employer
  13. Employee-owner
  14. Early Retirement Benefits
  15. Eligible Rollover Distribution
  16. Legal Entity
  17. Employer Comparable Contributions
  18. Part-time
  19. Common-law Employee
  20. Keogh Plan
  21. Pension distribution
  22. Specific Identification
  23. Section 501(c)(18) Plan
  24. Enterprise Zone Business
  25. Qualified employee plan

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