The IRS online EIN tool will not accept my facts because I am abroad. Is that normal or am I missing a workaround?
I kept assuming I was doing something wrong in the online application, but after reading the IRS instructions more carefully it looks like the system itself may not be intended for applicants whose principal business or legal residence is outside the United States. That would explain why the process feels like it keeps pushing me out before I can finish.
I want to know whether that is simply the rule and whether serious foreign founders should stop fighting the online tool once their facts do not fit. If the real answer is to build a clean fax or mail SS-4 file instead, I would rather spend energy there than keep treating the website like a puzzle to solve.
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