# BRD-006 — Submit every name line above the address on a multi-line IRS record

> Where the IRS CP-575 or 147C prints the entity name across more than one line, every line above the address line belongs in the legal name, and nothing below it.

- **Rule ID:** BRD-006
- **Layer:** Brand (`BRAND`)
- **Checks:** `brand.company_name`
- **Severity:** HIGH — Rejected by at least one carrier or provider, and a common cause of failure at the rest.
- **When it bites:** Gates approval — get this wrong and registration is refused
- **How it is detected:** AI judgement over the submitted form
- **Fix type:** Fix the field — a better value in the form clears it
- **Required by:** Twilio
- **Applies:** Applies to every 10DLC registration.
- **Canonical URL:** https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-006/

## Why this rule exists

The IRS wraps long entity names onto a second line, and a business reading its own letter sees the first line as "the name" and the rest as an artefact of the page. Vetting compares the full registered string, so dropping the continuation is a name mismatch — and it is the hardest kind to spot, because the value in the field is visibly the company.

## How to fix it

Open the CP-575 or 147C and read down to the address block. Concatenate every name line above it, in order, separated by a single space, into the legal name field. Done when the field holds the whole name as printed and stops at the line before the street address.

## Example of a compliant value

```text
company_name: Acme Coffee Co, LLC — including the "& Roasting Company" continuation line, if the letter carries one
```

## Common mistakes

- The line below the name is the "C/O" or care-of line on many letters, and it looks like part of the name. It is not — including it fails the match as surely as omitting the continuation does.

## Notes

In DIRECT CONFLICT with BRD-007, which is TCR's CSP User Guide instruction to submit only the first line. The catalog keeps both deliberately: the correct answer depends on the submission target, and neither is safe to apply universally. Where the destination is unknown, submit the full name and be ready to shorten it — Twilio, the stricter of the two, is also the more common target.