{"id":3427,"date":"2010-07-09T18:12:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T22:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2010-07-09T18:12:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T22:12:03","slug":"question-of-the-week-do-i-need-a-separate-ein-for-my-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2010\/07\/question-of-the-week-do-i-need-a-separate-ein-for-my-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: Do I Need a Separate EIN for My Corporation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s question comes from Cliff, a sole proprietor. I am forming a corporation and will be converting from a sole proprietorship to a corporation. Do I need a separate EIN for my corporation? Answer: The new corporation is a distinct entity from the sole proprietorship and will require the corporation to apply for a new employer identification number (EIN). Taxpayers may use <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/fss4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form SS-4, Application for Employer Identification Number<\/a>,\u00a0to apply for a new EIN or visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">IRS website<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/sa2.www4.irs.gov\/modiein\/individual\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">apply online<\/a>. Contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> if you have any further questions on the payroll tax implications of forming a corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s question comes from Cliff, a sole proprietor. I am forming a corporation and will be converting from a sole proprietorship to a corporation. Do I need a separate EIN for my corporation? Answer: The new corporation is a distinct entity from the sole proprietorship and will require the corporation to apply for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1304,1305,218,74,321,44,223,226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}