LLC registration with the IRS, take 1

Internal Revenue Service United States Department of the Treasury

EIN Assistant

* Your Progress:
* 1. Identity
* 2. Authenticate
* 3. Addresses
* 4. Details
* 5. EIN Confirmation


Summary of your information

Please review the information you are about to submit. If any of the information below is incorrect, you will need to start a new application.
Click the "Submit" button at the bottom of the page to receive your EIN.

Organization Type: LLC

LLC Information

Legal name: AGARIC
County: MIDDLESEX
State/Territory: MA
Start date: MAY 2011
Closing month of accounting year: DECEMBER (The closing month of the accounting year is defaulted to December due to your organization type. To change your closing month of accounting year, complete Form 1128.)
State/Territory where articles of organization are (or will be) filed: MA


Addresses

Physical Location: 33 FISHER ST
NATICK MA 01760
Phone Number: 508-283-3557

Mailing Address: PO BOX 241
NATICK MA 01760
UNITED STATES

Responsible Party

Name: BENJAMIN M MELANCON MBR
SSN/ITIN: XXX-XX-XXXX


Principal Business Activity

What your business/organization does: CONSULTING
Principal products/services: TECHNOLOGY


Additional LLC Information

Owns a 55,000 pounds or greater


highway motor vehicle:
NO
Involves gambling/wagering: NO
Involves alcohol, tobacco or firearms: NO
Files Form 720 (Quarterly
Federal Excise Tax Return):
NO
Has employees who receive Forms W-2: NO
Reason for Applying: STARTED A NEW BUSINESS

We strongly recommend you print this summary page for your records as this will be your only copy of the application. You will not be able to return to this page after you click the "Submit" button.

Click "Submit" to send your request and receive your EIN.
Once you submit, please wait while your application is being processed. It can take up to two minutes for your application to be processed.

[Rant: Wouldn't that message above make you think you were done after pressing submit? No, the page that had the EIN on it-- i could see it under the JavaScript pop-up-- timed out!!!]

Got the EIN from the IRS by phone: XX-XXXXXXX

And the name needs to be corrected from "Agaric" to "Agaric, LLC."

Correcting this (or any name change or any correction at all to information associated with an EIN) requires the information on this entirely inappropriately named, nearly impossible to find (one link to it at the bottom of another rather un-related document:

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=214471,00.html

Where it has this encouraging note: "The IRS will send a letter confirming our receipt of the updated information. If the entity has not received the confirmation letter within 60 days, it should fax a copy of the original letter, annotated “Second Request”, to the campus that services the entity’s state."

Two months before knowing if they even received the fax? Ridiculous. I should probably call to follow up. In the meantime we'll have to pay for the fax line - dedicated to communicating with the government! - for another month.