Important Changes for Non-US Authors/Affiliates/Service Providers

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Important Clarification re. W-8 Form for Non-US Authors, Affiliates & Service Providers

Hi All, In our answers in the last two days, one question that we’ve repeatedly answered is to tell authors that if they don’t have a foreign tax identification number that you could write “Not Provided”. This is correct, however this morning we had a call with our own advisors and when this came up, we learned that in fact while you can do this, it does mean we can’t apply the benefit of the treaty rate reduction (i.e. the US RWHT applied will be 30%) So if you’re in a non-treaty c…