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Form W-9 {Rw.3-202.1)Page 3 <br />Certain payeee and payments are exempt from backup withholding. <br />Se Exempt pyee code, later, and the separate lnstructions lor the <br />Hequester of Form W-9 for more information. <br />See also Fsfablishing U.S. status for purposes of ehapter 3 and <br />chapter 4 withhdding, eailier. <br />What ls FATCA Reporting? <br />The Foreign Arcount Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) requires a <br />parlicipating foreign financial institution to repod all U.S. account <br />holders that are specified U.S. persons. Certain payees are exempt from <br />FATCA reporting. See Exemptlon from FATCA repofting code,later, and <br />lhe lnstruclions for the Requester of Farm W-9 {or more information. <br />Updating Your lnformation <br />You must provide updated information to any pemon to whom you <br />claimed to be an exempt payee if you are no longer an exempt payee <br />and anticipate receiving reportable Payments in the future {rom lhis <br />person. For example, you may need to provide updated information il <br />you are a C corporation that elects to be an S corporation, or if you are <br />no longer lax exempt. ln addition, ycu must fumish a nevr Form W-9 if <br />the name or TIN changes for the account, for example, if lhe grantor of a <br />grantor trust dies. <br />Penalties <br />Failure to furnish TlN. lf you fail to funrish your conect TIN to a <br />requester, you are subject to a penalty of 950 for each such failure <br />unless your {ailure is due to reasonable cause and not to willlul neglect. <br />Civil penalty for false infornration witlr respect to withholdittg. lf you <br />make a false staternent rvith no reasonable basis that results in no <br />backup withholding, you are subject to a 9500 penalty. <br />Grinrinal penalty for falsifying inlormation. Willfttlly falsifying <br />certifications or affirmations may subject yor-r to criminal penalties <br />including fi nes and/or irnprisonment. <br />Misuse ol TlNs. lf the requester discloses or uses TlNs in violation of <br />federal lavr, lhe requester may be subject to civil and criminal penalties. <br />Specific lnstructions <br />Line I <br />You must enter one of the following on this line; do not leave this line <br />blank- fhe name should match the nams on your tax relum, <br />lf this Fotm W-9 rs for a joint account (other than an account <br />maintained by a foreign financial inslitution {FFl)}, list first, and then <br />circle, the name of ihe person or entity whcse number you entered in <br />Part I ol Form W-9. lf you are providing Form W-9 lo an FFI to document <br />a joint account, each holder of the account that is a U.5. person must <br />provide a Form W-9. <br />. Indiviclual. Generally, enter the name shown on your tax return- lf you <br />have changed your last name without informing the Social Security <br />Administratiorr (SSA) of the name change, enter your firsl name, the last <br />name as shown on your social securily card, and your new lasl name. <br />Note for lTlN applicant Inter your individual name as it was entered <br />on your Form W-7 application, line 1a. This should also be the same as <br />lhe name you entered on the Form 1040 you {iled with your applicalion. <br />. Sole proprietor. Enter your individual name as shown on your Form <br />1040 on line 1. Enter your business, trade, or "doing business as" (DBA) <br />name on line 2. <br />. Parlnership, C corporation, S corporation, or LLC, olher than a <br />disregarded entity, Enter the entity's name as shown on the entity's tax <br />return cn line 1 and any business, lrade, or DBA name on line 2. <br />. Olher entities. Enter your name as shown on required U-S. federal tax <br />documenls on line 1. This name should match ihe name shown on the <br />charter or other legal documeni creating the entity. Enter any business, <br />lrade, or DBA name on line 2, <br />. Disregardetl errtity. ln general, a business entity that has a single <br />owner, including an LLC, and is not a corporation, is disregarded as an <br />entity separate from ils owner (a disregarded entity). See Begulations <br />sectibn 301.7701-e(c){z). A disregarded entity should check the <br />appropriale box for the iax classification of its owner. Enter the ownefs <br />name on line i ^ The name of lhe owner entered on line 1 should never <br />be a disregarded entity. The name on line 1 should be the name shown <br />on tfie income tax r€tum on which the income should be reported. For <br />Kittitas County Agreement for Services (rev. 5/L4/25) <br />Page L9 of 22 <br />exarnple, if a foraign LLC that is trealed as a divegarded entity for U.S. <br />federal lax purposes has a single owner that is a U.S. person, the U.S. <br />orvnels rarne is requlred ts be provided on line 1. lf tfie direct owner ol <br />the entity is also a disregarded entiiy. ent*r the lirsl owner that is not <br />dieregarded for {ederal tax purpos€s- Enter the disragarded enti$'s <br />narre on llne 2. lf tfie owner of the disregarded entity is a foreign person. <br />lhe oruner rnust trom,plete an appropriate Form W€ instead of a Form <br />W-9. This is the case even [f the foreign person has a U.S. TlN. <br />Line 2 <br />lf you have a business name. trade name. DBA name, or disregarded <br />entity name. ent€r it cn line 2" <br />LinE 3a <br />Cherk the aFFropriate box on line 3a for the U-S. federal tax <br />cfassificalion of lhe person whose lame is entered on line 1. Check only <br />one box on line 3a <br />Line 3b <br />Check this box i{ you are a partneship (including an LLC classified as a <br />partnership for U.S. federaf tax purposes), lrust, or estate that has any <br />{oreigfl partners, owners, or beneficiaries, and you are providing this <br />form to a parlnersirip, !rust, ot estate, in which you have an ownerehip <br />interesl. You rnust cFreck tlne box on line 3b if you receive a Form W-8 <br />(or documentary evidencef from any partner, Dwner, or beneficiary <br />establishing foreign status or if you receive a Form W-9 lrom any <br />partner, owner, ar beneficiary that has checked the bax on line 3b. <br />Note: A partnership lhat provides a Form W-9 and checks box 3b may <br />be required 1o cornpl€te Schedules K-2 and K-3 (Form 1065). Fr:r more <br />infqrmation, see the Parlnership lnstructions for Schedules K-2 and K-3 <br />{Form 1065i. <br />l{ you are required lc complete line 3b but fail to do so. you <br />r.eceive the information necessary to file a correci infomtation <br />may nol <br />retum with <br />the IRS or fumistl a coreci payee statem€nt to <br />heneficiaries. See, for example" sections 6698, <br />penalties ihat may appty. <br />Line 4 Exemptions <br />lf you are exempt fonl baokup withholding andrbr FATCA reporling. <br />enter in !t!e appropriate spac€ on line 4 any code(s] lhat may apply to <br />yDu" <br />Exenrpt payee code. <br />. Generally, individuals {including sole proprietors'i are nol exempt {rom <br />backup withholding. <br />. Except as provid*d belolv, corporations are exempl from backup <br />wilhholdinE for certain payrnents. including interest and dividends. <br />. Corporations are not exernpt from backup withholding for payrnents <br />made in setrllement o{ pal.rnent card or third-party networt transactions. <br />. Corporations are not exernpt from backup wilhholding wilh respecl to <br />atlomeys' fees or gross proceeds paid to attomeys, and corporatir:ns <br />lhat prrvide rnedical or heallh care services are nol exempt with lespect <br />to payments reporlable on Form 1099-M|SC. <br />The f,rllorving codes idenirfy paye€s lhat are exempt from backup <br />wilhholding. Enter lhe apprr:priate code in the space on line 4. <br />1 -An organization exernpl from tax under section 501 (a), any lRA, or <br />a cuslodial accoilnt ilnd€t section 403PX7) if the account satisiies the <br />requireniefl ts of secti'rn 4s1 fj{21. <br />your partners or <br />6722. and 6724 lot <br />lF the entity/individual on line 'l <br />isa{n)... <br />THEN check the box for <br />r Corporation Corporation- <br />r lndividual or <br />r Sole prop{ieto.s}iip <br />lndividual/sole proprietor <br />. LLC classi{ied as a pattnership <br />for U.S. lederal tax purpcees or <br />r LLC that has filed F rm aB32 or <br />2553 electing to be taxed as a <br />corporation <br />Limiied liability company and <br />enter the appropriate tax <br />classification: <br />P = Parhership, <br />C=Gcorporation.or <br />S = S corporation. <br />I ParErership Partnership. <br />. Trulsty'estate TrusUestate.