My husband died about a yr ago and left paperwork that I am trying to sort through and Icame across a paper that gives a tax ID number (from early 90s) but no name for business. I am confused. HOw do I find the name of the company or business with this old tax ID number.thank you.
2007-02-14 06:53:27 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ Other - Taxes
Your states Secretary of State Department should be able to help you. You can check thier website and see if you can look it up yourself.
2007-02-14 06:57:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not sure why you think the number is from the early 90s. If you are looking at the first two digits, they actually are geographical based and not calendar based. The first two digits of the EIN reflect the issuing Internal Revenue Service district. West Coast companies start with a 9. For example 91-1234567 is not a number issued in 1991 but a number issued a company with a West Coast address.
If you have a piece of paper that has an federal EIN number on it and that is it, I am not sure you have a problem. That number alone to me is not an indication that you have some unreported tax liability. Without additional information I am not sure what to advise you.
That being said find your last three years of your personal income tax returns. Is the number used on any form especially a Schedule C or E. If so you can identify who the company is/was.
Subsequently found the following website. You need to establish an account to get your three free id number searches.
http://www.freeerisa.com/default.asp
I also just typed one in Google and I got three pages of hits showing me who it belonged to. Happens that the company is publicly held. Not sure it will work for a private company.
2007-02-14 08:07:26 · answer #2 · answered by zudmelrose 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's up to you. I used a tax id number when I did contract work because I didn't want other companies to have access to my private social security number. Identity theft hadn't yet become national news, but my friend already had been a victim of it. Some people use a tax id number instead of social security to separate their business from their personal, as in the case of a sole proprietorship.
2016-05-23 22:56:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The easiest thing for you to do is to call the governors office for your state where the business is registered, explain the problem, and ask them for a phone number for the appropriate department. The assistant will give it to you , that is thier job. Then call the appropriate governing authority and ask them, they will provide the published information to you. To get more specific you may need to provide a death certificate or some form of authentication, depending on what state you are in.
2007-02-14 06:59:59 · answer #4 · answered by dolphinparty13 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Call your State Tax Commission
2007-02-14 06:57:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If he was your husband how could you not know the name of the company he owned?
Just cause you found a tax ID on a scrap of paper doesn't mean he owned the company or anything.
2007-02-14 07:02:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
The irs issues the tax id #'s so I would start with them.
2007-02-14 06:58:29 · answer #7 · answered by ideaspclst 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Secretary of state might have it but why do you need to contact this former employer?
2007-02-14 07:02:40 · answer #8 · answered by Dizney 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are married, how come you dont know the name of the company? That's strange.....
2007-02-14 07:02:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋