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I was wondering the same thing. What about someone who doesn't want to incorporate a company but just create a bank account for billing? (I'm thinking Stripe).

[edit] I'm an individual web developer and even Paypal doesn't work in my country so it sucks. It'd be great if there were a way around it.

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Stripe requires a social security number and an EIN (if registering as a company).

Getting the EIN is easy (online in 10 minutes), getting the social is a lot harder.

If you are a foreigner the EIN is done by phone for a corporation. But still like 20 mins

I did mine online (as a foreigner)

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