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Form W-9 (Rev. 3-2024) <br />Page 2 <br />must obtain your correct taxpayer identification number (TIN), which <br />may be your social security number (SSN), individual taxpayer <br />identification number (MN), adoption taxpayer identification number <br />(ATIN), or employer identification number (El NJ. to report on an <br />information retum the amount paid to you, or other amount reportable <br />on an information return. Examples of information returns include, but <br />are not limited to. the following. <br />• Form 1099-INT (interest earned or paid). <br />• Form 1099-DIV (dividends, including those from stocks or mutual <br />funds). <br />• Form 1099-MISC (various types of income, prizes, awards, or gross <br />proceeds). <br />• Form 1099-NEC (nonemployee compensation). <br />• Form 1099-13 (stock or mutual fund sales and certain other <br />transactions by brokers). <br />• Form 1099-S (proceeds from real estate transactions). <br />• Form 1099-K (merchant card and third -party network transactions). <br />• Form 1098 (home mortgage interest), 1098-E (student loan interest), <br />and 1098-T (tuition). <br />• Form 1099-C (canceled debt). <br />• Form 1099-A (acquisition or abandonment of secured property). <br />Use Form W-9 only if you are a U.S. person (including a resident <br />alien), to provide your correct TIN. <br />Caution_ if you don't return Form W-9 to the requester with a TIN, you <br />might be subject to backup withholding. See What is backup <br />withholding, later. <br />By signing the filled -out form. you: <br />1. Certify that the TIN you are giving is correct (or you are waiting for a <br />number to be issued); <br />2. Certify that you are not subject to backup withholding; or <br />3. Claim exemption from backup withholding if you are a U.S. exempt <br />payee; and <br />4. Certify to your non -foreign status for purposes of withholding under <br />chapter 3 or 4 of time Cade (d applicable); and <br />5. Certify that FATCA code(s) entered on this form (if any) indicating <br />that you are exempt from the FATCA reporting is correct. See What Is <br />FATCA Reporting, later, for further information. <br />Note-, It you are a U-S. person and a requester gives you a form other <br />than Form W-9 to request your TIN, you must use the requsstees form if <br />it is substantially similar to this Form W-9. <br />Definition of a U.S. person. For federal tax purposes, you are <br />considered a U.S, person if you are: <br />• An individual who is a U.S. citizen or U.S. resident alien: <br />• A partnership. corporation, company. or association created or <br />organized in the Unted States or under the laws of the United States: <br />• An estate (.other than a foreign estate): or <br />• A domestic trust (as defined in Regulations section 301.7701-7). <br />Estabfishing U.S. status for purposes of chapter 3 and chapter 4 <br />withholding. Payments made to foreign persons. including certain <br />distributions, allocations of income. or transfers of safes proceeds. may <br />be subject to withholding under chapter 3 or chapter s of the Code <br />(sections 1441--1474] Under those rules. if a Form W-9 of other <br />ce tffication of non -foreign status has not been received, a withho[ding <br />agent. transferee, or partnership (payor) generally applies presumption <br />rules that may require the payor to withhold applicable tax from the <br />recipient, owner. transferor, or partner (payee), See Pub. 515, <br />Withholding of Tax on Nonresident Aliens and Foreign Entities. <br />The following persons must provide Form W-9 to the payor for <br />purposes of estab[ishing its non -foreign status. <br />• In the case of a disregarded entity with a U.S. owner, the U.S. owner <br />of the disregarded entity and not the disregarded entity. <br />• In the case of a grantor trust with a U.S. grantor or other U.S. owner, <br />generally. the U.S. grantor or other U-S. owner of the grantor trust and <br />not the grantor trust. <br />• In the case of a U.S. trust (other than a grantor trust), the U.S. trust <br />and not the beneficiaries of the trust. <br />See Pub. 515 for more information on providing a Form W-9 or a <br />certification of non -foreign status to avoid withholding. <br />Kittitas County Agreement for Services (rev. 5/14/25) <br />Page 18 of 23 <br />Foreign person. ff you are a foreign person or the U.S. branch of a <br />foreign bank that has elected to be treated as a U.S. person (under <br />Regulations section 1,1441-1(b)(2)(iv) or other applicable sec lion for <br />chapter 3 or 4 purposes), do not use Form W-9. Instead, use the <br />appropriate Form W-8 or Form 8233 (see Pub. 515). if you are a <br />qualified foreign pension fund under Regulations section 11.897(I)-1(d), or <br />a partnership that is wholly owned by qualified foreign pension funds, <br />that is treated as a non -foreign person for purposes of section 1 sa5 <br />withholding. do not use Form W-9. Instead, use Form W-8EXP (or other <br />certification of non -foreign status). <br />Nonresident alien who becomes a resident alien. Generally, only a <br />nonresident alien individual may use the terms of a tax treaty to reduce <br />or eliminate U.S. tax on certain types of income. However, most tax <br />treaties contain a provision known as a saving clause. Exceptions <br />specified in the saving clause may permit an exemption from tax to <br />continue for certain types of income even after the payee has otherwise <br />become a U.S. resident alien for tax purposes. <br />If you are a U.S. resident alien who is relying an an exception <br />contained in the saving clause of a tax treaty to claim an exemption <br />from U.S. tax on certain types of income. you must attach a statement <br />to Form W-9 that specifies the following five items. <br />1. The treaty country. Generally, this must be the same treaty under <br />which you claimed exemption from tax as a nonresident alien. <br />2. The treaty article addressing the income. <br />3. The article number (or location) in the tax treaty that contains the <br />saving clause and its exceptions. <br />4. The type and amount of income that qualifies for the exemption <br />from tax. <br />5. Sufficient facts to justify the exemption from tax under the terns of <br />the treaty article. <br />Exarnpla. Article 20 of the U.S.-China income tax treaty alloys an <br />exemption from tax far scholarship income received by a Chinese <br />student temporarity present in the United States. Under U.S. law. this <br />student will become a resident alien for tax purposes if their stay in the <br />United States exceeds 5 calendar years. However, paragraph 2 of the <br />first Protocol to the U.S.-China treaty (dated April 30. 1984) allows the <br />provisions of Article 20 to continue to apply even after the Chinese <br />student becomes a resident alien of the United States. A Chinese <br />student who qualifies for this exception (under paragraph 2 of the first <br />Protocol) and is relying on this exception to claim an exemption from tax <br />on their scholarship or fellowship income would attach to Form W-9 a <br />statement that includes the information described above to support that <br />exemption. <br />it you are a nonresident alien or a foreign entity, give the requester the <br />appropriate completed Form W-8 or Form 8233. <br />Backup Withholding <br />What is backup withholding? Persons making certain payments to you <br />must under certain conditions withhold and pay to the IRS 2-% of such <br />payments. This is called "backup withholding," Payments that may be <br />subject to backup withhoiding include. but are not limited to, interest. <br />tax-exempt interest dividends. broker and barter exchange <br />transactions. rents. royalties, nonemployee pay. payments made in <br />settlement of payment card and third -party network transactions, and <br />certain payments from fishing boat operators, Real =state transactions <br />are not subject to backup withholdng. <br />You will not be subject to backup withholding on payments you receive <br />if you give the requester your correct T)N. make the proper certifications. <br />and report all your taxable interest and dividends on your tax return. <br />Payments you receive will be subject to backup withholding if: <br />1. You do not fumish your TIN to the requester, <br />2. You do not certify your TIN when required (see the instructions for <br />Part II for details): <br />3. The IRS tells the requester that you fumished an incorrect TIN; <br />4. The IRS tefis you that you are subject to backup withholding <br />because you did not report all your interest and dividends on your tax <br />return (for reportable interest and dividends only); or <br />5. You do not certify to the requester that you are not subject to <br />backup withholding, as described in item 4 under 'Sysigning the filled - <br />out form" above (for reportable interest and dividend accounts opened <br />after 1983 only). <br />