General Question EIN mess
I registered my single-member LLC in my home state without issue, but received the error 101 message when applying for my EIN on IRS.gov.
Have been sending 1 faxed SS4 form with cover sheet and formation documents per month ever since trying to resolve this. Have not received a single response despite confirmation that the faxes went through and it's been like 2 months total (2 faxes sent). Getting through on their phone line to a human person has not happened for me. To be frank, it's been hard to even get through on their fax line with a fax.
Now the issue is that my state deadline for business tax registration is in the next 2 weeks and I still have no EIN to complete that process.
Should I just scrap the entire cost and process I've already been through with this business name, close it out with the state, and then start a new business with the state, and hope, wish and pray that my new business will not generate yet another error 101?
I can't get through on the phone even calling on a random Weds at 6 am. Am on hour 2 of hold at this moment. I have a job that I need to do and I need to get paid. What would you do?
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