so here's the deal, signed a contract to sell a business (US-based C corp) to another person, who is also not American
the transition has been smooth, dude I sold to whom I sold is this bad ass nice guy who's been a pleasure to deal with. not only do I want to sell the biz, I want to sell it to
him
while very established in the industry, as alas also not an American none of the 'IRS change of EIN ownership' process is back-of-my-hand to him (nor to me, as also non-American). we're both Canadian, our equivalent of the IRS (the CRS) is night-and-day different and much more intuitive and user-friendly
the very very last step in completing this sale that started like 10 months ago is getting my EIN transferred to him, so that he can take full legal control of everything relating to the biz
in April, I mailed in my docs to the IRS (after 2 very lengthy phone calls with them) indicating the sale to a third party. there were some docs he had to send on his end and he did that as well
welp, now it's fucking
November and nothing has been done
before I start banging my head against the brick wall of trying to speak to a helpful, knowledgeable person at the IRS to speak to -again- I figured no harm in asking here, since lots of peeps here own businesses located in countries other than their own
any tips on the best person to contact at the IRS, or strategies that have worked for y'all in the past to get an EIN transfer to actually be registered with the US gov?
this is getting ridiculous, we both just want this DONE already. open to any all suggestions on effective ways to accomplish this. hell, I'll take a long shot suggestion at this point
gracias in advance for reading and hope everyone's having a wicked day