Re: TaxID validation resources -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: TaxID validation resources
From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 13:09:15 -0400
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Hm. My tl;dr wound out being oversimplified. Let's try that again:

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:59 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

tl;dr: Any first three digits are valid except 000, 666, and anything
in the range 900-999. Any remaining digits are valid except all
zeros.

The second sentence above is wrong. Actually:

The middle group (digits 4 and 5) cannot both be zero.

The last group (digits 6 through 9) cannot all be zero.

And if you want more detailed information, but not scattered across
multiple pages, Wikipedia has a good entry on SSNs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number

John Y.

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