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Tennessee farm business compliance — official layer cluster (2026-04-22)

Purpose: Router + provenance for the two-site East Tennessee plan’s business shell: entity filing entry points (SOS/TNBEAR), federal EIN / responsible party (IRS captures), federal agricultural employment overview (DOL), BOI/FinCEN posture (status note + FinCEN hub), business tax / TNTAP snippet, greenbelt comptroller capture, UT farm business orientation page, TN law PDF on agriculture/zoning/taxes, and UT W1266 insurance PDF. Not legal, tax, or insurance advice.

Downstream package: Tennessee farm business compliance package

Evidence summary

Field Content
Abstract Clusters new 2026-04-22 IRS/DOL/SOS URL captures with existing TN Revenue / Comptroller / UT / statute PDF material already in raw/processed/2026/ so synthesis pages can cite primary-ish paths without scattering orphans.
Authority mix Federal IRS + DOL .gov, TN SOS/Revenue/Comptroller captures, UT Extension PDF (W1266), TN statute PDF + UT web capture — still requires CPA / attorney / agent for your facts.
Decision relevance Informs entity choice, registration order (state formation before EIN per IRS), property tax classification (greenbelt application discipline), sales tax exemption research (Revenue materials), insurance questions for agents, labor routing to WHD + TN workers’ comp, BOI “check FinCEN today” habit.
Canonical wiki links Tennessee farm business compliance package · East Tennessee two-site farm business plan (package) · Farm business legal entity model

Key claims (public-safe):

  • IRS states online EIN issuance is single-session, 15-minute timeout, and one EIN per responsible party per day for online applications (see IRS capture).
  • IRS states nominees must not be listed as responsible party on Form SS-4; corrections use Form 8822-B (see IRS capture).
  • Greenbelt first-time application filing deadline is March 15 for agricultural/forest/open space classification per Comptroller/SBOE capture text citing T.C.A. sections (see greenbelt.md).
  • Agricultural land minimum 15 acres threshold (plus statutory alternatives) appears in the same greenbelt capture—verify against current statute and county assessor practice.
  • TNTAP excerpt in vault notes business tax registration and Public Chapter 377 (2023) updating $100,000 license thresholds for tax years ending on or after Dec 31, 2023 (see tennessee-business-tax-registration-licensing-tntap.md)—re-verify on Revenue site.

Open questions / follow-ups

  • Add machine extract or refreshed capture for TN SOS LLC guide body if automated fetch remains blocked—until then the URL index raw file is the SOS anchor.
  • County business license / zoning: Anderson vs Campbell clerks—keep parcel pages free of invented license facts.

Per-source index

Topic Raw / source-note
IRS — EIN online overview irs-ein-online-application-overview-capture-2026-04-22.md
IRS — Responsible parties / nominees irs-responsible-parties-and-nominees-capture-2026-04-22.md
TN SOS / TNBEAR URL index tennessee-sos-business-services-official-url-index-capture-2026-04-22.md
DOL WHD — agriculture overview us-dol-wage-hour-agricultural-employment-overview-capture-2026-04-22.md
BOI / CTA — status routing note fincen-boi-corporate-transparency-act-status-note-2026-04-22.md
TN business tax / TNTAP excerpt tennessee-business-tax-registration-licensing-tntap.md · source-note tennessee-business-tax-registration-licensing-tntap.md
Greenbelt law / application FAQ greenbelt.md
UT — building a farm business building-a-farm-business-ut-center-of-farm-management.md
TN statute PDF — agriculture, zoning, property taxes PDF …subclassification.pdf · extract …subclassification-extracted.md
UT W1266 — insurance considerations PDF w1266.pdf · extract w1266-extracted.md · source-note ut-extension-w1266-insurance-considerations-farming-operation-pdf.md

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