Datatypes

US taxpayer identification number (TIN)

ID us_tin

DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifierDraft

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Any number that the US tax system uses to identify a taxpayer: a Social Security Number (usssn), an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (usitin), an Employer Identification Number (usein), a Preparer Tax Identification Number (usptin) or an Adoption Taxpayer Identification Number (usatin). Use it for columns that mix these kinds.

Parent datatype
Tax identification number taxid
Categories
Finances and banking, Personally identifiable information
Countries
United States
Languages
English
python-stdnum
stdnum.us.tin
Quality
95/100 · missing: translation
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
python-stdnum

Regular expression

^(?:\d{3}-?\d{2}-?\d{4}|\d{2}-?\d{7}|P-?\d{8})$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
536-90-4399SSN or ATIN, example from the python-stdnum documentation
04-2103594EIN, example from the python-stdnum documentation
P01594846PTIN, example from the python-stdnum documentation
00634642 invalidEight digits: a PTIN without the P (python-stdnum example)

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