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Originally Posted by woj
you could have sent a w8 form to 10 different sponsors in the time you spent arguing in this thread? or is this more of a public service you are trying to do?
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This is not about the time it takes to fill out a form. In fact, when an affiliate program requests form, I take a prepared statement out of a folder in my desk, I fill in the name of the program and other details like my affiliate id, I sign it and date it. I then scan it and email the pdf to the affiliate program.
What this is about, is about when to use which type of form. There's a correct way to handle every situation. What I'm complaining about is that a few people in this industry apparently don't know what those forms are for and demand the wrong type of form from foreign affiliates.
Do Shareasale, Google etc require their foreign publishers and affiliates to fill out a w8 form when it doesn't apply to them? Of course not. Those companies understand how things work and who needs to supply what.
Like I said, W9 forms are meant for documenting certain types of payments. W8 forms are for documenting a few other types of payments.
And then there's those types of payments that cannot be documented with either a w8 or w9 form.