You might want to edit your title to "Ask HN:"
In the UK you could ask for a company number and look it up at companies house (the registrar) but lookups for self employed people are very limited. Most countries have a registrar though.
In the UK you could ask for a company number and look it up at companies house (the registrar) but lookups for self employed people are very limited. Most countries have a registrar though.
Do self-employed people not have to register their business? I thought everyone who has a business has to register with companies house and file tax return.
however I'm not getting much results on "EIN lookup api" or "business verification api" https://www.judydiamond.com/products/einfinder/ein-api-autom... is only promising one
I'm just a solo dev trying to figure this out sorry if I ask stupid q :D
Why are you checking, by the way?
I'd like to verify these small business owners who sign up, so for example if Sally's Holistic Yoga wants to sign up, then Sally would make an account for her business.
However, I could manually verify this information somehow by calling them or whatever else, or there may be some API or service I could use to do this for me.
that being said, I've never done this kind of thing before.