US/UK Tax advice?
16 June 2007, 09:17 AM
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US/UK Tax advice?
Anybody work for the tax office or freelance for a company in the US? Have been sent a tax form by a company I've just started supplying some work to - W8BEN - Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding (WTF???)
BUT having read it I 'think' I should have/fill out W-8ECI instead - Certificate of Foreign's Persons Claim for Exemption from Witholding on Income Efectively Connected With The Conduct of a Trade or Business in the United States..think that's what I had a few years ago when I worked for a US company
Any thoughts/advice?
BUT having read it I 'think' I should have/fill out W-8ECI instead - Certificate of Foreign's Persons Claim for Exemption from Witholding on Income Efectively Connected With The Conduct of a Trade or Business in the United States..think that's what I had a few years ago when I worked for a US company
Any thoughts/advice?
16 June 2007, 12:46 PM
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You probably want to have a chat with FICO at the Nottingham Tax Office, 0115 974 2000, they will help you out with double taxation, which is what this is all about.
The UK has an agreement with the US which allows us, and them, to exempt payments to companies and individuals so that no tax is deducted at source.
Otherwise give your accountant a call.
The UK has an agreement with the US which allows us, and them, to exempt payments to companies and individuals so that no tax is deducted at source.
Otherwise give your accountant a call.
16 June 2007, 01:42 PM
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You probably want to have a chat with FICO at the Nottingham Tax Office, 0115 974 2000, they will help you out with double taxation, which is what this is all about.
The UK has an agreement with the US which allows us, and them, to exempt payments to companies and individuals so that no tax is deducted at source.
Otherwise give your accountant a call.
The UK has an agreement with the US which allows us, and them, to exempt payments to companies and individuals so that no tax is deducted at source.
Otherwise give your accountant a call.
16 June 2007, 02:08 PM
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Well the way I understood it was that if tax gets deducted in the US you can claim it back from the IRS by filling in a form, that's how it works over here anyway. Please don't take this as gospel though.
Obviously it's much easier to get exempted in the first place.
Obviously it's much easier to get exempted in the first place.
16 June 2007, 02:18 PM
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Well the way I understood it was that if tax gets deducted in the US you can claim it back from the IRS by filling in a form, that's how it works over here anyway. Please don't take this as gospel though.
Obviously it's much easier to get exempted in the first place.
Obviously it's much easier to get exempted in the first place.
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