I'm trying to set up an account for our trust. The trust is a revocable living trust which we set up with my wife and I as the Trustees and Grantors, and also the benficiaries. It was created in 2018 to protect our assets from probate. It has never had it's own account until now. We are selling our house which is titled in the name of the trust and we were advised by the settlement attorney that we have to have this account set up to receive the proceeds of the sale. Our intent for this account is solely to receive the proceeds from the home sale (primary residence), to immediately be transferred to our individual account.
Fidelity allows pretty quick set up of this account, but it needs a TIN for the account, which I've never set up. I found the IRS website to set up EIN, but not TIN. Further confusing the issue, the TIN info page on IRS talks only about ITIN, ATIN, and PTIN. Nothing about just a straight TIN.
I'm thoroughly bamboozled by this and can find nowhere on the IRS website that speaks to TIN creation. Any help would be appreciated.
