EIN Application Service

If your business has already been formed and you only need an EIN, use the service you actually need.

FilingOak EIN Application Service is $249 flat.

You provide the legitimate information that has to come from you. FilingOak prepares the SS-4, gives you the prepared application to review and sign, and handles FilingOak’s authorized side of the EIN application process.

If FilingOak is forming your LLC for $495 + the applicable state filing fee, EIN Application Service is already included.

Don’t buy the same service twice.

FilingOak EIN Application Service is available to U.S. and non-U.S. founders.

Living outside the United States does not create a reason to invent a U.S. responsible party, owner or principal business location.

Your responsible party remains the real responsible party.

Your actual business location remains the actual business location.

And information used for correspondence does not become a fictional place where your business operates.

FilingOak prepares the SS-4 around the legitimate facts of the business and the responsible party instead of changing those facts to make the application look more domestic than it is.

You do not need FilingOak to pretend you are somewhere you are not.

You need the application handled correctly around where you actually are.

Form SS-4 can involve more than one kind of address because those addresses can serve different purposes.

A mailing address used for correspondence does not automatically become the company’s principal business location.

FilingOak preserves that distinction.

Where an appropriate FilingOak mailing address is used for correspondence within FilingOak’s authorized role, it is treated as mailing information.

It is not used as an excuse to manufacture a U.S. principal business location for a company that does not genuinely have one.

The same principle applies to the responsible party.

FilingOak does not replace the real responsible party with someone more convenient simply to make the application fit.

Real business. Real responsible party. Real application facts.

FounderVault is FilingOak’s private customer workspace, and you can enter before purchasing EIN Application Service.

Once FilingOak prepares your SS-4, the document can return to your case for review and the signature that genuinely has to come from you.

You can use FounderVault’s built-in signing experience from the device you’re already using.

Or don’t.

If you would rather sign the prepared SS-4 outside FounderVault, you can download it, sign it yourself and upload the signed document back.

The point of FounderVault is to make the work easier to complete.

It is not to trap you inside one way of completing it.

Once your required signature is returned, the work comes back to FilingOak.

FounderVault can then keep the EIN case, customer-visible progress and applicable released documents connected to the business they belong to.

Creating your FounderVault account is free. EIN Application Service is a paid service at $249.

Paying FilingOak to handle an EIN application does not transfer a signature or authorization that legally belongs to you.

When FilingOak acts within the applicable third-party-designee role, that role does not turn me into the applicant or give me permission to sign your required authorization for you.

So the division is simple.

The IRS controls when the IRS processes an EIN application.

FilingOak doesn’t.

I can control how FilingOak prepares the application, handles its authorized work and responds when something on FilingOak’s side needs attention.

I cannot truthfully turn an IRS processing estimate into a guaranteed date when your EIN will be assigned.

So FilingOak does not sell you an “EIN in four days” promise or manufacture another delivery deadline around a government process it does not control.

The promise is narrower and stronger:

FilingOak handles FilingOak’s side of the EIN application. The IRS controls the IRS’s side.

Not every EIN application follows an identical path.

Sometimes the IRS may require clarification, additional information or an action that genuinely has to come from the applicant.

When that happens, FilingOak tells you what is needed.

You provide the information, review, signature or authorization that genuinely belongs to you.

FilingOak handles the work that belongs to FilingOak within its authorized role.

The objective is not to accept your $249, complete the easiest part of the application and then turn ordinary operational complexity back into your problem.

If FilingOak can handle it within FilingOak’s authorized role, it stays with FilingOak.