(1) Use the information in the table below to determine the requirements for Taxpayer Identification
Number ( Form SS-4, Lines 7b or 9a) for domestic entities.
Entity Type
Corporation
Partnership
UBO/UBT/PTO/Business Trust,
or
LLC
Requirement
The SSN/ITIN or EIN of the
principal officer, general partner,
member or owner (also known
as responsible party).
Sole Proprietor
Entity Type
Requirement
Estate
Trust
(2) There will be rare occasions where the grantor, owner or trustor of a domestic trust/estate entity
type will not have an SSN or ITIN. In these cases, secure the SSN/ITIN or EIN of the party responsible for
physically filing the Form 1041 and input it onto CC ESIGN as the cross reference TIN. Following are
some instances of when this may occur.
Grantor, owner or trustor may indicate Amish or Mennonite as the reason for not supplying an SSN or
ITIN.
An infant is the decedent of an estate or grantor, owner or trustor of trust, guardianship, receivership or
custodianship that has yet to receive their SSN.
Estate is being established for a woman who used her husbands SSN with an alpha character
immediately after the last digit of his SSN.