Absolutely. But you wouldn't want to for this purpose. When you use an EIN as a substiture for SS#, if your account gets nuked, that EIN is no good to reuse, just like an SS would be good only one time.
DBA does not get an EIN. If you have 20 DBAs, you don't have 20 EINs. LLC gets the EIN. So, if you want multiple PP, you need multiple LLC to have the multiple EIN.
This is so much easier to explain vocally over beer...
Example:
My name is hypothetically Sam (the LLC). My friends might call me Butch (DBA1), my neighbors might call me Killer (DBA2), my sister might call me AssMunch (DBA3), etc. etc.
Sam has an SSN (LLC has EIN). Butch, Killer, and AssMunch do NOT have an SSN (EIN).
Now you see where the DBA fits in? PP can call me Killer and they think it's my name. Even though I give them Sams SSN. The paperwork you file for the DBA legally allows you to use the LLC's EIN under the name of the DBA.
Last edited by Vicvelcro; 04-21-2009 at 10:55 PM.
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