Hmm the online EIN form will give you an EIN instantly unless you don't have an ITIN or you are incorporated outside the US, in which case you would have to do it offline. https://sa.www4.irs.gov/applyein/
I remember using it and worrying about losing the EIN at the last step, so I saved the document several times and printed it several times too.
Online service works for some but not others. IRS doesn’t sync with the state registries for databases. So if your LLC is close to a name of another one in their out of date DB, IRS breaks.
Their fax machine doesn’t always work. No way to email.
One must go through snail mail and it takes months to get an EIN.
I’m dealing with IRS right now to get an EIN for an LLC. They won’t give an EIN over online form. Must be faxed or physically mailed.
They say 3-5 days. Been weeks. I pay $5/week to hold onto a fax number.
So Trump spending hundreds of billions on blowing up kids’ schools in Iran and cutting funding from IRS.
Why does it take weeks to start a business in 2026 and get a bank account.
Just absurd.