W-8ECI - Certificate of Foreign Persons Claim That Income Is Effectively Connected With the Conduct of a Trade or Business in the United States

W-8 BEN, W-8BEN-E, W-8EIC, W-8EXP, W-8IMY, W-8 MOU Program

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Documents and Forms

Document Name Document Type
Form W-8ECI W-8ECI - Certificate of Foreign Persons Claim That Income Is Effectively Connected With the Conduct of a Trade or Business in the United States Form
Instructions Form W-8ECI currently approved.pdf Instruction
W-8ECI Certificate of Foreign Person¿s Claim That Income Is Eff Form W-8ECI.pdf Form
W-8ECI (Currently Approved)Certificate of Foreign Person?s Clai Form W-8ECI currently approved.pdf Form
Form W-8ECI-brdn_busi.PDF 2013 Burden estimate IC Document

Information Collection (IC) Details

IC Title:	W-8ECI - Certificate of Foreign Persons Claim That Income Is Effectively Connected With the Conduct of a Trade or Business in the United States	Agency IC Tracking Number:

Is this a Common Form? No		IC Status: Modified

Obligation to Respond: Mandatory

CFR Citation:

Information Collection Instruments:

Document Type	Form No.	Form Name	Instrument File	Available Electronically?	Can Be Submitted Electronically?	Electronic Capability
Form	W-8ECI	Certificate of Foreign Person¿s Claim That Income Is Effectively Connected With the Conduct of a Trade or Business in the United States	Form W-8ECI.pdf	Yes	No	Fillable Printable
Instruction			Instructions Form W-8ECI currently approved.pdf	Yes	No	Printable Only
Form	W-8ECI	(Currently Approved)Certificate of Foreign Person?s Claim That Income Is Effectively Connected With the Conduct of a Trade or Business in the United States	Form W-8ECI currently approved.pdf	Yes	No	Printable Only

Line of Business: General Government

Subfunction: Taxation Management

Privacy Act System of Records
Title:	FR Citation:

Number of Respondents: 180,000	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	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	180,000	0	180,000
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	1,643,400	-255,600	1,899,000
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Documents for IC

Title	Document	Date Uploaded
2013 Burden estimate	Form W-8ECI-brdn_busi.PDF	12/13/2013

Blank fields in records indicate information that was not collected or not collected electronically prior to July 2006.