W-8BEN, Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding

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-8BEN W-8BEN, Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding Form
iw-8ben.pdf Instruction
W-8BEN Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for Un fw-8_ben--2017-07-00.pdf Form

Information Collection (IC) Details

IC Title:	W-8BEN, Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding	Agency IC Tracking Number:

Is this a Common Form? No		IC Status: Modified

Obligation to Respond: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits

CFR Citation: 26 CFR 1.1446(f)-1 thru -7 26 CFR 1.864(c)(8)-1, -2

Information Collection Instruments:

Document Type	Form No.	Form Name	Instrument File	URL	Available Electronically?	Can Be Submitted Electronically?	Electronic Capability
Form	W-8BEN	Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding	fw-8_ben--2017-07-00.pdf		Yes	No	Fillable Fileable
Instruction			iw-8ben.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: 2,970,000	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 New Statute	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	2,970,000	70,000	2,900,000
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	21,324,600	502,600	20,822,000
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Documents for IC

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