{ "name": "Business Identity Stack", "site": "llcinfo.cc", "version": "0.1", "dateModified": "2026-06-09", "plainEnglishRule": "An LLC, corporation, formation filing, registered agent, organizer, principal office, mailing address, CMRA mailbox, operating agreement, EIN, ITIN, platform verification, bank account, domain, website, email, and phone number are different things.", "roles": [ { "id": "llc_filing", "label": "LLC filing", "does": "Creates or registers a legal entity.", "doesNotDo": "Does not prove a real office, mailbox, bank account, tax setup, or compliant business presence." }, { "id": "corporation", "label": "Corporation", "does": "Creates a different legal entity type with corporate roles and formalities.", "doesNotDo": "Does not operate the same way as an LLC and does not solve address, mail, tax, or bank questions by itself." }, { "id": "organizer_or_incorporator", "label": "Organizer / incorporator", "does": "Signs or submits formation paperwork for the entity.", "doesNotDo": "Does not necessarily identify the beneficial owner, controller, or person behind a provider checkout." }, { "id": "registered_agent", "label": "Registered agent", "does": "Receives service of process and official notices where authorized by state law.", "doesNotDo": "Does not automatically act as a general business agent, mailbox, principal office, bank address, or tax adviser." }, { "id": "principal_office", "label": "Principal office", "does": "May identify an office or business location when a state, bank, tax agency, or platform asks for that role.", "doesNotDo": "Does not become truthful for that role merely because a provider offered a registered-agent or virtual-address package." }, { "id": "mailbox_cmra", "label": "Mailbox / CMRA", "does": "Receives mail when the service is actually a mail receiving service.", "doesNotDo": "Does not automatically make the address a principal office, bank-safe address, or real operating location." }, { "id": "ps_form_1583", "label": "PS Form 1583", "does": "Authorizes delivery of mail through an agent for a private mailbox or CMRA mail-receiving workflow.", "doesNotDo": "Does not make a registered agent address acceptable for every bank, tax, state filing, or platform use." }, { "id": "business_address", "label": "Business address", "does": "May provide a public-facing address signal.", "doesNotDo": "Does not automatically satisfy state, bank, tax, platform, or customer due-diligence rules." }, { "id": "operating_agreement", "label": "Operating agreement", "does": "Sets internal company governance, ownership, management, or member rules depending on state law and the agreement.", "doesNotDo": "Does not appoint a registered agent, authorize USPS mail receiving, create an EIN or ITIN, prove a physical office, or guarantee bank approval." }, { "id": "domain_website_email_phone", "label": "Domain, website, email, phone", "does": "Helps a business look reachable online.", "doesNotDo": "Does not prove the business is safe, compliant, established, or operating at an address." }, { "id": "bank_kyc_address", "label": "Bank / KYC address", "does": "Satisfies a bank or platform only if that bank or platform accepts it.", "doesNotDo": "Does not become acceptable just because a formation provider offered it." }, { "id": "platform_verification", "label": "Platform verification", "does": "May verify tax ID, legal business name, representative identity, owners/controllers, address, bank account, website, products, support, shipping, or risk depending on the platform request.", "doesNotDo": "Does not mean every warning is only an EIN mismatch and does not allow a business to pretend it operates at an address where it does not operate." }, { "id": "ein", "label": "EIN", "does": "Identifies a business for federal tax purposes.", "doesNotDo": "Does not prove the company has a real office, accepted bank address, mailbox, ITIN, or bank account." }, { "id": "itin", "label": "ITIN", "does": "Identifies a person for federal tax purposes when that person needs a U.S. taxpayer ID and is not eligible for an SSN.", "doesNotDo": "Does not create an LLC, prove a business address, act as a registered agent, or guarantee bank approval." }, { "id": "caa_document_review", "label": "CAA document review", "does": "A Certifying Acceptance Agent reviews original identity documents or certified copies from the issuing agency for an ITIN application under IRS rules.", "doesNotDo": "Does not become valid just because there was a video call, a scan upload, a notary meeting, an LLC filing, or a mailbox signup." } ], "responsibilityRule": "The consumer or business owner and the provider they choose own the decision. This site explains roles and sources but is not the provider, lawyer, accountant, bank, tax adviser, registered agent, mailbox provider, or formation company.", "sourceRules": { "officialSource": "Can prove what the official source publishes.", "providerMarketing": "Can prove how a provider markets a service.", "aiAnswer": "Can be a lead but is not authority.", "customerComplaint": "Can show confusion or harm but does not prove every company at an address is bad." }, "officialSources": [ { "name": "Wyoming LLC Articles of Organization", "url": "https://sos.wyo.gov/Forms/Business/LLC/LLC-ArticlesOrganization.pdf" }, { "name": "Wyoming Commercial Registered Agent Roster", "url": "https://sos.wyo.gov/Business/Docs/CRA-Roster.pdf" }, { "name": "Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, Subchapter I", "url": "https://delcode.delaware.gov/title6/c018/sc01/index.html" }, { "name": "Delaware Division of Corporations", "url": "https://corp.delaware.gov/" }, { "name": "IRS Apply for an Employer Identification Number (EIN) Online", "url": "https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/apply-for-an-employer-identification-number-ein-online" }, { "name": "IRS Individual Taxpayer Identification Number", "url": "https://www.irs.gov/individuals/individual-taxpayer-identification-number" }, { "name": "IRS ITIN Acceptance Agent Program", "url": "https://www.irs.gov/individuals/itin-acceptance-agent-program" }, { "name": "IRS Publication 4520, ITIN Acceptance Agents' Guide", "url": "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p4520.pdf" }, { "name": "IRS Form W-7 (COA)", "url": "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw7coa.pdf" }, { "name": "Stripe Required Verification Information", "url": "https://docs.stripe.com/required-verification-information" }, { "name": "Stripe Business Tax ID Information", "url": "https://support.stripe.com/questions/update-business-tax-id-information" }, { "name": "USPS Commercial Mail Receiving Agency FAQ", "url": "https://faq.usps.com/articles/Knowledge/Commercial-Mail-Receiving-Agency-CMRA" }, { "name": "USPS PS Form 1583", "url": "https://about.usps.com/forms/ps1583.pdf" }, { "name": "USPS PS Form 1583-A", "url": "https://about.usps.com/forms/ps1583a.pdf" }, { "name": "USPS DMM 508 Recipient Services", "url": "https://pe.usps.com/text/DMM300/508.htm" } ] }