Vermont EIN Number and the WHT Withholding Account in myVTax

After your EIN in Vermont

Some Vermont towns add a local option tax on sales, meals, alcoholic beverages or rooms. The Department of Taxes collects it for the town, so no extra registration with the Department is needed. You report it with your state return, and sellers with local option sales must file electronically.

Vermont's registration instructions say every employer, whatever its ownership type, must have a federal employer identification number before registering for withholding. An employer may also need separate Vermont withholding accounts for W-2 wages and for 1099 income tax withholding.

Also on the Vermont list

• Register with the Vermont Department of Taxes through myVTax before doing business if the LLC will sell taxable goods, rent rooms, sell meals or alcohol, or hire employees. The Department asks for the business's FEIN, opens a separate account for each tax type, and does not require the tax account to be renewed.
• File the annual report with the Secretary of State within three months after the end of the LLC's fiscal year on record. The report renews the LLC's registration each year and must be filed online.

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What is different about Vermont

• Vermont ties the LLC annual report to the fiscal year end the company has on record with the Secretary of State, not to its formation date. An LLC has three months after that fiscal year end to file, while a profit corporation has two and a half.
• Every Vermont LLC taxed as a partnership files a Business Income Tax Return, Form BI-471 (or the shorter BI-476 when all owners are Vermont residents and only the minimum tax is due), and pays the state's minimum business entity tax each year, even in a year with a loss. The Department of Taxes says simply being registered with the Secretary of State triggers the minimum tax. A single-member LLC that is disregarded for federal purposes and reports on Form 1040 Schedule C is not required to file BI-471.
• Vermont taxes restaurant meals, alcoholic beverages served in bars and restaurants, and room rentals under a Meals and Rooms Tax that is separate from its sales and use tax. A business that does both needs a separate Meals and Rooms account and license alongside its sales and use tax account, and each is registered and filed through myVTax.

Before you apply

The SS-4 must match the Vermont Secretary of State filing; its record number is a state index, not a tax ID.

Vermont EIN questions