kirkland | 07-13-2017 12:35 AM | Using EIN from an old dissolved business? Outside of eBay, I've had some less-than-successful business ventures in my past... each with its own unique corporate structure and EIN. I've already used some of these to open some business checking accounts for my stealth accounts, and it's worked just fine.
My question pertains to using dissolved businesses (or rather, soon-to-be dissolved businesses), to open a few more business bank accounts. I plan to close some of these old businesses in the coming months and write them off as complete losses on my tax returns, but nonetheless I'd like to use the EINs on them to open some new accounts. What would happen if I open some bank accounts under a given EIN with plans to operate them long-term, but then shortly thereafter dissolve the business its assigned to? I'm assuming the IRS would get notice that the bank accounts associated with the EIN are still seeing funds inflow into the bank accounts, and that this could potentially cause some issues with them? (obviously, this isn't something I want to do if it causes issues, so I'm just trying to see if anyone else has been in this situation) |