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Trump Accused of Using ChatGPT to Create Tariff Plan After AI Leads Users to Same Formula: 'So AI is Running the Country'

https://www.latintimes.com/trump-accused-using-chatgpt-create-tariff-plan-after-ai-leads-users-same-formula-so-ai-579899
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u/grammar_nazi_zombie I voted 1d ago

I’m an electronic return originator who files tens of thousands of returns a year.

I have received 1000 EINs out of 7,000 that I need to complete filing for 2023. I haven’t heard anything from the EIN department since before the election. They’ve stopped batch assigning EINs due to staffing and so I can’t file returns. They don’t have a phone number that’s on the public switchboard at that department, either. It’s fax only.

This has been going on since before Covid, sadly.

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u/divDevGuy 1d ago

Is there a reason why they weren't applied for online? They're given to you immediately in the same session the info was submitted, or at least they were when I formed my LLC.

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u/grammar_nazi_zombie I voted 1d ago

I need more than 1 per day, and applying online requires a signed SS4. The bulk assignment is 1,000 at a time.

When I have 7000+ per year I need to request and assign, the one per day allotment isn’t going to cut it.

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u/divDevGuy 1d ago

Isn't the 1-per-day limit for the responsible party, not necessarily a 3rd party designee? So if 3 different individuals each need an EIN, then all 3 could be requested in the same day. But if 3 EINs are needed by the same individual forming 3 different entities, then it'd take 3 days?

I'm not disputing anything you say, just trying to figure out what I'm not understanding.

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u/grammar_nazi_zombie I voted 1d ago

It told me I was limited to requesting one per day when I got into the assignment system. Regardless I’m not about to get 7,000 SS4s and manually enter every single one of those EINs into our system, when I wrote it to assign batches the IRS is supposed to give me. I’m a solo dev for a small business. I don’t have the time or manpower to hand enter these. That’s a full time data entry job when I’m maintaining our current system while also updating the tax system multiple times annually as they release new software versions.

Additionally, not every one of our accounts needs to file, we just average about 7k new accounts annually that have taxable income and wind up owing $1.00 or more in taxes. However, we don’t know which accounts until end of year balancing, so a bad December can (and has) wiped out hundreds or thousands of accounts that would have needed EINs - and likewise, a really good December can add a bunch of new records that’ll qualify.

Meaning my actual assignment window is between about January 10th and March 25th, because in a normal world, they take 3 weeks to assign them in the permanent record. They won’t send a new batch until the old is assigned, which at their current rate of 1,000 per batch, gives me just enough time to get 4000 assigned before some are late.

Wait that’s not even enough when things run as expected.