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at this time we requested (as a trustee) EIN from IRS.

And if you requested an EIN for the trust as anything other than a grantor trust, that's why you got the letter. Either that or you said the trust was established in 2014.....it wasn't.....the trust became a non-grantor trust and needed an EIN when the taxpayer passed.