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Get your company's US tax ID (EIN)
We apply for an EIN for two groups: US LLCs and C corporations owned by non-US persons; and companies of any legal type formed outside the US, in any country. No SSN or ITIN is required. Tell us where your company was formed, complete one form, and sign with your mouse or finger.
The EIN is free. So what am I paying for?
You are right: the IRS issues the number itself free of charge, and we charge no government fee and are not an official agency. What you are paying for is this:
- ✓We fill in Form SS-4 correctly and prepare the supporting documents, so it is not rejected over formatting or a missing field.
- ✓We submit it to the IRS for you — you never deal with the fax route yourself.
- ✓We walk you through receiving the CP-575 confirmation letter, and what to do if it never arrives.
- ✓We tell you what most providers do not: why the IRS mailing address and the responsible party matter for years afterwards.
- ✓Email and ticket support until the number is issued.
Two things nobody warns you about
See the IRS instructions for Form SS-4 and Publication 1635, "Understanding Your EIN".
🏠 The address on the application is where the IRS will write to you — for years
Every IRS document goes to it: the CP-575 confirmation letter, and every tax notice after that. Most providers never mention this. If that address stops working, you stop hearing from the IRS — and you find out only when something has already gone wrong.
👤 Name the person who actually controls the company
Name the individual who actually controls the company, usually its owner or principal officer. A registered agent or formation service is not your responsible party merely because it helped form the company. SpeedEIN is listed separately when authorised as your third party designee.
How it works
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Order and pay
All we need to start is your company name. Payment is handled by Stripe — card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Alipay or WeChat Pay.
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Fill in one form and sign it online
A guided form in your dashboard, a few minutes. It asks only what the IRS asks — nothing more.
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We check it and send it to the IRS
Usually within one business day of your form arriving. You can follow every step, ask questions and add information at any point.
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Your EIN number arrives
Typically 7–20 business days after submission. You can start using the number as soon as we pass it to you.
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The CP-575 confirmation letter follows
About 17–20 business days from submission, posted by the IRS to the address on the form. This is the letter a bank usually wants to see.
🛡️ These are IRS processing times, not ours. They move with the IRS's workload, and the IRS occasionally announces changes — whatever it is actually doing at the time is what applies. We tell you as soon as we know anything.
How the express service gets it faster
A dedicated person handles your application one-to-one with the IRS, rather than sending your form into a queue and waiting. Same application, same forms — a faster route to an answer, and the part of it that is work is ours.
For the IRS to hand us the number, your Form SS-4 names us as third party designee — a role the IRS created for exactly this, and which ends the moment the EIN is issued. You remain the responsible party throughout. It is not the same thing as a provider writing itself into the responsible party box, which is a violation.
The promise, and what happens if we miss it
We check your form first — usually within one business day. The moment it passes, three business days start, and your exact deadline appears in your dashboard. If your EIN is not in your hands by then, we refund the difference between express and standard and your application carries on as a standard one at no further cost.
What arrives on day three
What arrives in 3 business days is the EIN number itself — enough to open a bank account or finish a Stripe or Amazon application. The CP-575 confirmation letter is posted separately by the IRS and still takes weeks; no service can speed that up, ours included.
What we need from you
- •Your company's legal name, country of formation, and legal entity type.
- •A scan of the official registration or formation certificate from the country where your company was formed.
- •The responsible party's name, title, nationality, date of birth and phone number.
- •A short description of what your business actually does.
- •Your handwritten signature image and a freshly entered signing date. You can reuse a signature saved to your account.
You do not need an SSN or an ITIN. You do need a company that already exists — we do not register companies.
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Have a foreign-owned US single-member LLC? Plan for annual filing.
For a foreign-owned US LLC with default disregarded tax treatment, owner funding, withdrawals, and personally paid formation costs can require annual Form 5472 reporting even with no sales. A genuinely transaction-free year may qualify for an exception. Corporate taxation has different return requirements. We help you identify the appropriate service before you pay.
See what the annual filing involves ↗Important
SpeedEIN is a document preparation service, not a law firm or a CPA firm, and we are not affiliated with the IRS. We prepare the application from the information you give us. Your entity's federal tax classification has real consequences — if you are not sure which one applies to your company, speak to a qualified tax professional before ordering.