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Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding -- W-8BEN; Certificate of Foreign Person's Claim for Exemption from Withholding on Income -- W-8ECI

IC 18935 under ICR 199810-1545-010 · OMB 1545-1621.

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IC Title:	Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding -- W-8BEN; Certificate of Foreign Person's Claim for Exemption from Withholding on Income -- W-8ECI	Agency IC Tracking Number:

Is this a Common Form? No		IC Status: Migrated

Obligation to Respond: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits

CFR Citation:

Information Collection Instruments:

Document Type	Form No.	Available Electronically?	Can Be Submitted Electronically?
Form	W-8ECI	No	No
Form	W-8IMY	No	No
Form	W-8EXP	No	No
Form	W-8BEN	No	No

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Privacy Act System of Records
Title:	FR Citation:

Number of Respondents: 3,180,640	Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 0

Affected Public: Private Sector	Private Sector: Businesses or other for-profits

Percentage of Respondents Reporting Electronically: 0 %

	Approved	Program Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	3,180,640	3,180,640
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	36,114,302	36,114,302
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

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