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The instructions for W8BEN are clear: "Who must file. You must give Form W-8BEN to the withholding agent or payer if you are a foreign person and you are the beneficial owner of an amount SUBJECT TO WITHHOLDING." As I said previously, FOREIGN SOURCED INCOME IS NOT SUBJECT TO WITHHOLDING...

The OECD (of which the USA is a member of) put it's head together many years ago and determined that if you OWN a webserver in a country, then the websites you have on that server are producing income SOURCED in that country. If you merely RENT a webserver in a country, the websites on it are...

Hi, I'm gonna post this message in several posts coz the system isn't allowing me to post it in one shot. I know this comes pretty late, nonetheless, here's what I found: The W8BEN form is only required to be filled out for US SOURCED income. Now "US Sourced" doesn't mean where the...