Form W-8BEN: Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for US Tax Withholding (Individuals)
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Form W-8BEN, Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner, is the IRS form a non-US individual gives to a US payer or financial institution to certify they are not a US person and, where a tax treaty applies, to claim a reduced rate of withholding on US-source income. You give it to the withholding agent — not to the IRS. The current edition is Rev. October 2021, a one-page fillable PDF from the IRS; entities use Form W-8BEN-E instead. With JustFill you upload that blank PDF, the AI maps each field, you type your details, and the first clean completed PDF download is included at no charge.
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Form W-8BEN establishes that the beneficial owner of US-source income (interest, dividends, royalties, certain service payments) is a foreign individual, so the payer applies the correct withholding — often reduced under an income-tax treaty between the US and your country of residence. It is the foreign-person counterpart to Form W-9. You hand it to the bank, broker, or payer that requested it; it is not filed with the IRS. Individuals use W-8BEN; companies, partnerships and trusts use Form W-8BEN-E, and a foreign individual paid for services performed inside the United States uses Form 8233 or W-4 instead. JustFill lets you complete the W-8BEN online so your name, country, and treaty claim are legible; the first clean completed download is included at no charge.
IRS Form W-8BEN (Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding and Reporting — Individuals, 30 fields) is the mandatory withholding certificate non-U.S. individuals submit to U.S. payers, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and brokerages to certify that they are not U.S. persons (avoiding 24% backup withholding) and to claim reduced withholding or exemption from the default 30% statutory tax under an income tax treaty on U.S.-source royalties, dividends, interest, or services.
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The official Form W-8BEN PDF (Rev. October 2021, one page) is free at irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw8ben.pdf, with the separate instructions at irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/iw8ben.pdf; the IRS “About Form W-8 BEN” page lists no newer revision. It is already a fillable PDF. Entities need Form W-8BEN-E (Rev. October 2021, eight pages) at irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw8bene.pdf instead. Open the blank W-8BEN in JustFill to type your identification and treaty details on screen, download the completed form — the first clean completed download is included at no charge — and give it to your US payer, broker, or bank, not to the IRS.
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Lines 1–8: your name, country of citizenship, permanent residence address (no P.O. box or in-care-of address), a mailing address only if different, a US SSN or ITIN only if required (line 5), your foreign tax identifying number (line 6a) or the line 6b box if your country does not issue one, an optional reference number (line 7), and your date of birth (line 8, required for accounts at US financial institutions).
Line 9 names the treaty country you are resident in. Line 10 is only for claims that need extra conditions — the article and paragraph, the rate, and the type of income — such as royalties taxed at several rates, student or researcher exemptions, or business profits not attributable to a permanent establishment. Ordinary dividend and interest claims leave line 10 blank.
The beneficial owner signs and dates under penalties of perjury and prints their name. An agent may sign only under a power of attorney (Form 2848 works), must tick the box certifying capacity to sign, and must attach the authorization. Typing your name is not an electronic signature; a payer may accept a genuine e-signature that shows when and by whom the form was signed.
A fictional UK resident, Amelia Sample, opens an account with a US broker to hold US-listed shares. She is not a US person, has no SSN or ITIN, and wants the US–UK treaty rate on dividends instead of the default 30% withholding.
Amelia Sample
Your own name as an individual. A company, partnership or trust must use Form W-8BEN-E instead.
United Kingdom
Dual citizens enter the country where they are both a citizen and a resident when they sign.
12 Example Road, Bath BA1 •••, United Kingdom
The address in the country where you are tax resident. No P.O. box, no in-care-of address, and not the broker’s address.
Left blank
Only needed if your mail goes somewhere other than the line 3 address.
Left blank
Not required here: she has no SSN, and the IRS instructions say an ITIN is not needed to claim treaty benefits on dividends from actively traded stocks when a foreign tax ID is given on line 6a.
QQ 12 34 56 • (UK National Insurance number)
Required when you document an account held at a US financial institution, unless your country issues no TINs or you can tick line 6b.
Left unchecked
Tick it only if your country of residence does not require you to have a tax identification number.
04-15-1980
Required for account holders at a US financial institution; the format is MM-DD-YYYY.
United Kingdom
This is the treaty claim. The broker applies the treaty’s portfolio-dividend rate (15% under the US–UK treaty) instead of the 30% statutory rate.
Left blank
Line 10 is only for claims that depend on extra conditions — royalties with several rates, student or researcher exemptions, business profits not attributable to a permanent establishment. A standard dividend claim does not use it.
Amelia signs and dates; prints “Amelia Sample”; capacity box left unchecked
She signs for herself. The capacity box is only ticked by an agent signing under a power of attorney, who must also attach the authorization.
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Official source: Form W-8BEN on IRS’s website
Edition checked: Rev. October 2021 (Instructions for Form W-8BEN Rev. October 2021); the IRS "About Form W-8 BEN" page, last reviewed 01-Oct-2025, lists no newer revision. Verified against the official source on · Verified in our Government Forms Fillability Study.
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