Payroll CPAs often request an IRS 147c letter for or from their clients. The 147c letter verifies your company’s information per IRS records: legal name, address, EIN etc. Why would your CPA need an IRS 147c letter?
- Sometimes the company uses a variation of its legal name.
- Sometimes the EIN number is incorrect.
- Sometimes the company doesn’t have the original IRS Notice 575 confirming this information.
- Sometimes the client brings in a stack of conflicting IRS notices, usually with demands for payments already made.
“Fixing problems with the IRS is always harder than providing correct information.”
- Gary Bode, payroll CPA
You don’t have to be a payroll CPA to ask for IRS 147c letter. A phone call to them works fine.
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