How to fill out a W-8BEN form

You may have found that when signing up for or requesting payments from various affiliate programs and ad networks that you have to fill in a W-8BEN Form. The W8-BEN is usually used by people outside of the US to certify their foreign or non-American status and certain companies will ask you for this because of tax reasons.

You can find out more about the W-8BEN Form here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_tax_forms#W-8_Series

When you first see the form it looks quite complicated, but it is actually quite easy to fill out, in saying that, it’s quite easy to mess up to.

How to correctly fill in a W-8BEN form

If you need help to fill in a W-8BEN just follow the quick video below which shows you what fields to fill out and what you need to put in them...