What Practifile is, and what it is not

A short page, because there is not much to hide behind. We prepare two IRS forms and we try to do it well.

Who operates this

Practifile is a document-preparation service operated by Neuro Gnosis LLC, a company formed in the State of Delaware. The service is not a law firm, not an accountancy practice, and not a government body of any kind.

Things we are not

  • We are not the IRS, and we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to it in any way
  • We do not give legal, tax, or immigration advice, and using the service creates no professional relationship
  • We do not decide whether your application is approved, and we cannot influence IRS processing times
  • We do not charge you for anything the IRS provides free. You can file either form yourself at irs.gov at no cost

What we actually do

Translate the forms into questions

Form SS-4 and Form W-7 are written in the IRS’s language. We ask about your situation in ordinary words and fill the form from your answers.

Check before you file, not after

Fields are validated as you go and the finished form is checked against the rules that most often cause rejections, because a rejection costs you the whole processing window again.

Work for people the online route excludes

The IRS online EIN tool requires a Social Security number. A large part of who we built this for does not have one, and that route is simply closed to them.

Speak the applicant’s language

The service runs in eight languages, because reading a US tax form in a second language is where a lot of the errors come from.

How your information is handled

Personal data is encrypted with AES-256 at rest and in transit. We collect what the forms require and no more, we do not sell data, and we do not share it with third parties for marketing. Full detail is in the privacy policy.

How your information is handled

The part most services leave out

Both of these forms are free to file yourself. If your case is straightforward, you have a Social Security number, and you are comfortable with IRS instructions, doing it directly at irs.gov is genuinely the better option and we would rather tell you that than take your money. What we charge for is the time, the translation, and catching the mistakes that send applications back.

Questions we have not answered here?

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