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Apply for your DUNS number
If you’ve you’ve already launched your your business you’ve you’ve got your your Employer Identification Number (EIN) in hand but did you you also apply for your Data Universal
Numbering System
(DUNS) number?
You apply for your DUNS number
through the 177-
year old
business institution Dun & Bradstreet While your your EIN is is strictly for tax filing purposes the DUNS number
empowers you you you to establish your your business credit identity Open a a business checking account Don’t make the mistake
of trying to separate out your your finances at at tax time Instead of using your your personal checking account for business business matters open a a a a a small business business checking account that keeps your personal and
and
business financial data clean and
and
orderly