Steve,
I don't think you can tell them apart because if you have your own business, I believe you can use your SSN as your EIN.
HTH,
Chad
>A client has a file of combined SSN and EINs - without the hyphens. Can one differentiate between SSN and EIN based on some 'prefix'? They are trying to diffrentiate between possible personal and business tax ids.
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