cams tax info - need help filling out w8ben
I feel bad starting another thread here, but this is so specific and the only info I found on my question did not answer my question so far. I have to fill out a w8ben form to receive payment from cams.com. I am a Canadian girl. I filled it out as best as I could and today they said they rejected it for being incomplete. If someone knows what to put in what field, would she mind going over each field number and saying what goes in it? I left 6/7/810/11 blank because I don't have a tax ID in the States and they don't need to know my Canadian one (optional, so we'll keep it on a need to know basis). 5/6 stayed blank because the mailing address is the same as my regular address. Should I have put n/a in all those fields I left blank instead? Also, I think Can/US have some sort of tax treaty but I don't have the slightest idea, so I left 10 empty for that reason. I wouldn't know what article number to put in there anyway. 11, I have no clue what they are talking about there. I'm scratching my head over this one. Not complicated, but blank forms give major anxiety. If anyone got this right with this same company before, please let me know!!! much appreciated.
PS> I really dread talking on the phone with strangers, so calling cams up is going to be saved as last last resort if nothing else gets me out of the hole.
Re: cams tax info - need help filling out w8ben
I found some examples on a different forum, and I submitted variations of the form. Still getting rejected. Will update again once I get approved. lol I actually heard back from cams.com support with the fields they were interested in, but what the guy said contradicts what the form says. Proof that not even people in the US have any idea how to use forms provided by the IRS. lol What is disturbing is that some people got these forms approved in the past which were filled out in the first manner I did it, and now they want them done differently. I don't want to provide links to external sites, but if others need help with w8ben feel free to PM me and I'll send you what I found.