Actions Are Needed to Reduce the Risk of Fraudulent Use of Employer Identification Numbers and to Improve the Effectiveness of the Application Process

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should Develop processes to ****************2******************** ************2************** and refer any matches to the Criminal Investigation Division for further review.

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should develop processes to match responsible parties associated with suspicious EINs, when added to the Suspicious EIN Listing, against the IRS's Business Master File to identify instances in which the same responsible parties are associated with additional EINs (not in the list) and determine if these additional EINs should be added to the list.

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should refer the 20,609 entities that contain responsible party Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TIN) associated with suspicious EINs to the IRS's Return Integrity and Compliance Services function to determine if any of these entities should be added to the Suspicious EIN Listing.