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Form W-9 (Rev. 3-2024) <br />must obtain your correct taxpayer identification number tTIN), which <br />may be your social security number (SSN). individual taxpayer <br />identification number (FnN, adoption taxpayer identification number <br />(ATIM. or employer identification number (El NI. to report on an <br />information mtum the amount paid to you, or other amount repcdabie <br />on an information return. Exarnples of information retums include, but <br />are not limited to, the fallowing. <br />• Form 1 D99-INT )interest earned or paid). <br />• Form 1099-DIV (dividends, including dick -se from stocks or mutual <br />funds). <br />• Form I M-MISC (various types of income, prizes. awards, or grass <br />Proceeds). <br />• Form 1099-NEC (nonemployee compensation). <br />• Form 1099-6 (stock or mutual fund sales and certain other <br />transactions by brokers). <br />• Form 1099S (proceeds from real estate transactions). <br />• Form 1099-K (merchant card and third -party network transactions). <br />• Form INS (home mortgage interest), 1098-E (student Joan inlemfl. <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 subletI to backup withholding. See What is backup <br />withholding, aler. <br />By signing the filled -Out form. you: <br />I. Certify that the TIN you are giving is correct for you are wasting 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 the Code (f applicable): and <br />S. Certify that FATCA code(s) entered on this firm (if any) indicating <br />that you are exempt from the FATCA reporting is correct. See Mat is <br />FATCA Peporting, later, for further information. <br />Note: if 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 requester's form if <br />it is substantially similar to this Form W-9. <br />Definition of a U.S, person. Far federal tax purposes, you are <br />considered a U.S. person 0 you are., <br />• An individual who is a U.S. ciliren or U.S. resident alien; <br />• A partnership, corporation, company, or association created at <br />organized in the Un led 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 />Establishing U.S, status for purposes of chapter 3 and chaplet 4 <br />withholding. Payments made to foreign persons. including certain <br />distributions, allocations of income. or Irarssfars of sales proceeds, may <br />be subject to withholding under chapter 3 or chapter 4 of the Code <br />(sections f 441-1474). Under those rules, 9 a Form W-9 or other <br />certification of non -foreign status has not been received. a withholding <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. 51S. <br />t,Vithholding of Tax on Nonresident Aliens and Foreign Entities. <br />The following persons must provide Form W-9 to the payor for <br />purposes of establishing 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 arch 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 Bother than a grantor trust), the U.S. trust <br />and not the banefrciaries 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 19 of 23 <br />Page 2 <br />Foreign person. If 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)[v) or other applicable -see [ion 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 1.8970.1(d). or <br />a partnership that is wholly owned by qualified foreign pension funds. <br />that is treated as a noo-foreign person for purposes of section 1445 <br />withholding, do not use Form W-9. Instead, use Form W-SEXP (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 on 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 fire 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 />S. Sufficient facts to justify the exemption from tax under the terms of <br />the treaty article. <br />Exampfe. Article 2D of the U.S.-China income tax treaty allows an <br />exemption from lax for schotarship income received by a Chinese <br />student ternporarity present in the United States. Under U.S. Wv. 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 i1.5: China treaty (dated April M. 1W) 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 qualities for this exception (under paragraph 2 of the first <br />Protocol) and is retying 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 fo support that <br />exemption. <br />If 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 W you <br />must under certain conditions withhold and pay to the IRS 24% of such <br />payments. This is called "backup withholding." Payments that may be <br />subject to backup withholding include, but are not )united 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 -pasty network transactions, and <br />certain payments from fishing boat operators. Real esl ate transactions <br />are not subject to backup withholding. <br />You will not be subject to backup withholding on payments you receive <br />it you give the requester your correct TIN, 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 />You do not fumish your TiN to the requester, <br />2. You do not certify your TiN when required (sea the instructions for <br />Part 11 for details); <br />3. The IRS tells the requester that you lumsshed an incorrectTIN: <br />4. The IRS teits you that yoti 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 onty); 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 'By signing the Ned - <br />out form" above (for reportable interest and dividend accounts opened <br />after 1983 only). <br />