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
iw-8eci.pdf Instruction
W-8ECI Certificate of Foreign Person¿s Claim That Income Is Eff fw-8eci.pdf Form
2017-W-8ECI-Burden.docx 2017 (BURDEN) 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	URL	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	fw-8eci.pdf		Yes	No	Fillable Printable
Instruction			iw-8eci.pdf		Yes	No	Printable Only

Line of Business: General Government

Subfunction: Taxation Management

Privacy Act System of Records
Title: 24.030–Customer Account Data Engine Individual Master File; Treas/IRS IRS 42.017 International Enforcement Program Information File, Treas/IRS 42.021 Compliance Programs and Projects Files	FR Citation: 80 FR 54064

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	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	180,000	180,000
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	1,643,400	1,643,400
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

Documents for IC

Title	Document	Date Uploaded
2017 (BURDEN)	2017-W-8ECI-Burden.docx	09/07/2017

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