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...
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