Georgia EIN Number, Then the GTC Withholding Payroll Number

After your EIN in Georgia

Georgia's Department of Revenue gives a withholding account its own number, seven digits followed by two letters, so it never matches your EIN. Georgia does use the nine-digit federal EIN itself to identify corporate income tax and partnership accounts.

Georgia's Department of Labor online application for an unemployment insurance tax account is only for new Georgia employers that have not acquired another business. An LLC that bought an existing business is sent to the paper Form DOL-1N instead.

Also on the Georgia list

• Register with the Georgia Department of Revenue through the Georgia Tax Center. The EIN is required to open sales tax and withholding accounts.
• File your annual registration with the Secretary of State; Georgia requires it every year the company exists, not only after a change.
• Register as an employer with the Georgia Department of Labor before the first payroll; it is separate from the Georgia Tax Center account and also asks for the EIN.

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What is different about Georgia

• Georgia calls its yearly filing an annual registration rather than an annual report, and it is due at the start of April each year. Letting it lapse puts the company into administrative dissolution, which is a problem the EIN cannot fix.
• The Corporations Division issues a control number that identifies the company in Georgia records. Banks occasionally ask for it alongside the EIN, and the two are unrelated: the control number is a state index, the EIN is federal.
• Georgia routes state tax registration through the Georgia Tax Center, which asks for the EIN up front, so the federal number has to exist before the state accounts can be opened.
• Georgia's annual registration window runs from January 1 to April 1 each year, filed through the Secretary of State's eCorp portal against the control number, and Georgia lets a company pay up to three years of registrations at once. Missing the window adds a late fee and, eventually, administrative dissolution.
• Georgia does not require an LLC to publish a notice of formation. The newspaper publication rule that Georgia is known for applies to corporations, which must publish a notice of intent to incorporate, so LLC owners can ignore advice about running a notice.

Before you apply

The SS-4 must match the Georgia Secretary of State, Corporations Division filing; its control number is a state index, not a tax ID.

Georgia EIN questions