I am sorry to hear you feel this way about this request. I have included your affiliate manager so that you two can discuss further details. This is just a requirement that our company has to follow because we went public recently. It has been placed upon us by the IRS for all of our affiliate accounts that we pay out US funds too. I understand if you are uncomfortable doing so, just keep in mind that on 6/18 your account will be placed on hold. Thank you for your quick reply and Good day!
fax or email us at 408-745-5678 or
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http://www.atsu.edu/employeeforms/pdfs/W-8_forms.pdf
Sincerely,
Felicia Riger
Various, Inc.
a FriendFinder Networks Inc. company
220 Humboldt Court
Sunnyvale, Ca 94089
I emailed back this:
If you read this thread:
https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1070090 you will see that other public listed companies such as google/amazon do not require this information.
Here is google stating this on their tax information page:
https://www.google.com/adsense/taxinfo
Non U.S. Business (No U.S. Activities )
United States (U.S.) Activities involve having employees or owning equipment in the U.S. that are involved in any way with revenue earned through the AdSense program. This includes, but is not limited to, owning a web server or owning a hosting service in the U.S., or having employees in the U.S. who are involved in either:
setting up a web server, hosting service, or website
developing content for your website
marketing to create a user base for your site
telephone support for your site
buying products for your site
maintaining your site
Generally, utilizing an unrelated third-party U.S. web hosting service to host your web pages, renting web servers that are located in the U.S. from an unrelated third party, or having your payment sent to a U.S. Post Office Box or mail forwarding address, do not of themselves constitute U.S. Activities.
If you do not have U.S. Activities, please visit the Tax Information page under your My Account tab where you will agree to a statement to that effect. No tax forms are required in this instance.
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So why is AFF requesting this information? I have no U.S. Activities. I am pretty sure the multi billion dollar company google would not get this wrong, they can hire the very best lawyers.
So please look into this again, otherwise you will be losing a loyal affiliate dating back to 2003.
Best regards