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Originally posted by CoolE
Is anyone else from outside the US struggling with getting a US business tax id for the Visa forms for their US IPSP?
I've heard a lot of people say it is a piece of cake, but my lawyer and I are running into nothing but problems. Has anyone done this succesfully in the last 2 months? A lot has changed since 9/11/2001 and I don't think this is all as easy as some have said.
It now appears that to get a US business tax id, the principle owners are required to get a personal ITIN if they are foreigners. This requires that one fill out a W-7, which in turn requires 4 to 8 weeks, and identification documents notarized by a US notary public - which in turn requires a trip to the US or a US consulate/embassy.
Has anyone out there from outside the US successfully established a US business entity since 9/11 (including US tax id as the Visa forms seem to imply you need)? If so please share your experience.
Not to sound like a scaremonger, but I'm really starting to get a bad feeling about all this - this could be a damn disaster for international webmasters whose strategy was to do what Epoch, IBill and CCBill advised.
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I got a personal ITIN number from the IRS when I was in flordia in Aug - it arrived about 2 weeks ago. to give you an idea of how long it takes.
I knew it would come in handy. I got it just for safty reasons on my CAs advise (being canadian and getting US money I wanted to file a return in the USA so that they won't decide I was skipping out on my Taxes - basically it tells the IRS I paid my taxes to Revenue Canada, and since canada and USA have tax treaties they can't come after me if I file US income in canada and pay the tax there)
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