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Who is a Company Applicant?

Any company created after January 1, 2024 must include information about its company applicant(s) in its Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) report.
A company applicant could be either:
  • The person who filed the paperwork establishing the company; or
  • A third party (attorney, paralegal or other advisor) who directed or controlled the filing action.

Information required of a company applicant could be:

  • The full legal name, date of birth, residential address and a unique identifying number on a current form of ID (passport, driver’s license, etc.); or
  • Those individuals’ FinCEN Identifier (a personalized ID number), if they have one.

A reporting company must list a minimum of one or a maximum of two company applicants.

For more exact information on who a company applicant is, refer to this Q&A document about the CTA or request a CTA white paper from Platinum Filings.