IRS Form W-8BEN

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Fill out Form W-8 BEN and give this form to the withholding agent or payer if you are a foreign person and you are the beneficial owner of an amount subject to withholding.

Submit Form W-8 BEN when requested by the withholding agent or payer whether or not you are claiming a reduced rate of, or exemption from, withholding.

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# This template has a lot of fields, so you'll need to download and run this bash script:

curl -sfSL "https://app.docspring.com/api/v1/templates/tpl_AcXt4ar4DXPsz79Nrc/curl_example.sh" \
  -u "api_nXerNcJM5LRThDXgka:9pAJQZb5mYQZHjQHjZCQJJ9hxSPGL9ZAYc3QFxgQCE" \
  -o "/tmp/docspring_tpl_AcXt4ar4DXPsz79Nrc.sh"
bash "/tmp/docspring_tpl_AcXt4ar4DXPsz79Nrc.sh"
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