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About Form W-9, Request for Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) and CertificationInformation about Form W-9, Request for Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) and Certification, including recent updates, related forms and instructions on how to file.
Form W-9
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PDF version of Form W-9.
Instructions for Form W-9
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Instructions explaining how to file Form W-9.
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Withholding certificates and exemptions for personal services and students
This page contains information about Form 8233, Exemption From Withholding on Compensation for Independent (and Certain Dependent) Personal Services of a Nonresident Alien Individual.
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Nonresidents
Payments to nonqualified intermediaries
If you are making a payment to a nonqualified intermediary, foreign flow-through entity, or U.S. branch that is using Form W-8IMY to transmit information about the branch's account holders or customers, you can treat the payment.
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Large Businesses
Claiming treaty exemption for a scholarship or fellowship grant
This page discusses how an alien student, trainee, or researcher may claim a treaty exemption for a scholarship or fellowship by submitting Form W-8 BEN to the payer of the grant. However, a scholarship or fellowship recipient who receives wages and a scholarship or fellowship from the same institution both of which are exempt from tax under a tax treaty can claim treaty exemptions on both kinds of income on Form 8233.
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Nonresidents
Information returns
Government entities must provide statements to their employees and report the transactions to the IRS.
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Governments
Payments to Qualified Intermediaries
Generally, a QI is any foreign intermediary that has entered into a QI withholding agreement with the IRS.
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Large Businesses
Beneficial owners
This page reviews how you must withhold 30% from the gross amount paid to a foreign payee unless you can reliably associate the payment with valid documentation.
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Nonresidents
Powwow prizes are taxable
Prizes won by contestants at a powwow are taxable.
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Indian Tribal Governments
Delays in issuing SSNs to aliens by the Social Security Administration
Sometimes aliens experience significant delays in obtaining social security numbers. The consequences of these delays are discussed below.
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Nonresidents
Plan distributions to foreign persons require withholding
Plan Distributions to Foreign Persons Require Withholding
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Administrators
FATCA – Current alerts and other news
FATCA items of current interest – new updates, recent guidance and related news.
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Corporations