The IRS has announced that representatives (lawyers, and others like me) can only obtain one tax ID number per day from now on. They are known as Employer Identification Numbers or EINs and they are used for trusts, estates, businesses, and other entities that need a number for tax purposes but are not a person with a Social Security Number. The announcement did not say that individuals cannot get more than one per day, just representatives. In most cases, this won't be a problem for me. I usually only get one at a time when an estate or trust is created and needs one. But, there have been occasions when we created two trusts or two LLCs in one day and wanted two numbers. Now it will take another day to get them (unless I ask the client to do it for him or herself.) The stated reason was to make the system work fairer and more smoothly. I guess a few people were gumming up the system with lots of EIN requests. I don't know who those people were, but they have ruined it
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