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Agreed. According to the IRS, you need an EIN if you have employees (and I'm also assuming if you sell alcohol but I'll admit I'm having a hard time finding inf
by freehunter 7y ago
Agreed. According to the IRS, you need an EIN if you have employees (and I'm also assuming if you sell alcohol but I'll admit I'm having a hard time finding info about the ATF section) so at a bare minimum we could assume that bar has zero employees?
It could also be that they don't have their EIN handy and would need to go to an office somewhere to retrieve it but are unable to visit their lawyer's office due to covid-19?
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/do-you-need-an-ein https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
- jacurtis 7y agoI agree that an EIN would probably be necessary for a bar. Just an added clarification is that the EIN is a federal identification, and a liquor license is usually issued by the city. So a city wouldn't need an EIN in order to issue a liquor license. But unless all your bartenders are 1099, you would need an EIN. As an alternative theory, it could be that there is a store manager for the bar who doesn't have access to the EIN, if the actual owner was absentee. This happened to me at a company I used to work at. I was the office manager, so I was in charge and responsible for everything and handled 99.9% of it, but once a year or so, I would need the EIN and it was the one time I would have to escalate it to the absentee owner who I didn't see very often.
- jlgaddis 7y agoWorst case, you can actually just call the IRS and they'll give it to you (after verifying who you are, of course).