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the PSE may rely to treat the payment as made to a

maintaining the account outside the United States. To

foreign person according to Regulations section

apply this exception, the PSE must also reasonably

1.1441-1(e)(1)(ii) (substituting “payer” for the term

determine that the participating payee is doing business

“withholding agent” and without regard to the limitations to

outside the United States based on all the information

amounts subject to withholding requirements of chapter 3

obtained or reviewed in connection with the establishment

of the Code and its regulations).

or maintenance of the contractual relationship with the

participating payee (including information required to be

A PSE must file Form 1099-K for payments made

obtained or reviewed under procedures required to be

outside the United States to an offshore account if any of

established under and compliant with 31 CFR §

the following apply:

1020.220). However, a PSE must file Form 1099-K for

There is a U.S. residential or correspondence address

payments made to an offshore account if any of the

associated with the participating payee;

following apply:

The PSE has standing instructions to direct the

There is a U.S. residential or correspondence address

payment to a bank account maintained in the United

associated with the participating payee;

States;

The PSE has standing instructions to direct the

The participating payee submits for payment in U.S.

payment to a bank account maintained in the United

dollars; or

States;

The PSE knows or has reason to know that the

The participating payee submits for payments in U.S.

participating payee is a U.S. person.

dollars; or

A PSE is not required to file Form 1099-K for payments

The PSE knows or has reason to know that the

made outside the United States to an offshore account in

participating payee is a U.S. person.

the circumstances described in the preceding paragraph if

A PSE that obtains a valid Form W-8 or documentary

the PSE does not know that the payee is a U.S. person

evidence establishing the payee's non-U.S. status and

and the PSE obtains from the payee a Form W-8BEN,

does not know the payee is a U.S. person is not required

Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for

to file Form 1099-K even if any of the circumstances

United States Tax Withholding and Reporting

described in the preceding paragraph are present. For

(Individuals); or Form W-8ECI, Certificate of Foreign

more information on this exception, see Notice 2012-2,

Person’s Claim That Income Is Effectively Connected

available at

With the Conduct of a Trade or Business in the United

Exception for payments by U.S. payers to foreign

States; or documentary evidence establishing the payee’s

payees prior to 2011. For payments under contractual

non-U.S. status; or a suitable substitute form as described

obligations entered into before January 1, 2011, a PSE

in Notice 2011-71, available at

that is a U.S. payer or U.S. middleman is not required to

2011-37_IRB/ar08.html. The W-8 forms (or the suitable

file a Form 1099-K for a payment to a participating payee

substitutes) must be collected by the PSE no later than 90

with a foreign address as long as the payer does not know

days after the date on which the PSE enters into the

or have reason to know that the participating payee is a

contractual obligations with participating payee. The W-8

U.S. person.

forms (or suitable substitutes) and documentary evidence

may be relied upon only when the requirements described

A foreign address means any address that is not within

in Notice 2011-71 are satisfied.

the United States (the States and the District of

Columbia).

A PSE does not have to file Form 1099-K for payments

made outside the United States (within the meaning of

A renewal of a contractual obligation will not

Regulations section 1.6049-5(e)) to an offshore account

result in a new contractual obligation unless there

(as described in Notice 2012-2) of a participating payee

is a material modification to the contractual

with only a foreign address if the name of the participating

CAUTION

obligation.

payee indicates that it is a per se corporation under

Regulations section 301.7701-2(b)(8)(i) and the PSE does

Exception for payments made by non-U.S. payers

not know or have reason to know that the participating

or middlemen to foreign payees. A PSE that is not

payee is a U.S. person.

described as a U.S. payer or U.S. middleman in

A PSE may apply the grace period rules under

Regulations section 1.6049-5(c)(5) is not required to file a

Regulations section 1.6049-5(d)(2)(ii) for payments to a

Form 1099-K for payment to a participating payee that

participating payee with only a foreign address without

does not have a U.S. address as long as the PSE does

regard to whether the amounts paid are described in

not know or have reason to know that the participating

Regulations section 1.1441-6(c)(2) or are reportable

payee is a U.S. person. If the participating payee has any

under Code sections 6042, 6045, 6049, or 6050N.

U.S. address, the PSE may treat the participating payee

as a foreign person only if the PSE has documentation on

Exception for payments made by U.S. payers or

which the PSE may rely to treat the payment as made to a

middlemen to accounts maintained outside the

United States after 2010. A PSE is also not required to

foreign person according to Regulations section

file Form 1099-K in certain circumstances for payments

1.1441-1(e)(1)(ii).

made to an account maintained outside the United States.

A PSE that is a non-U.S. payer that has reason to know

This exception only applies if the PSE is a U.S. payer

but not actual knowledge that a participating payee is a

making a payment to an account maintained outside the

U.S. person will not be required to file Form 1099-K if the

United States by the PSE, or, if the PSE does not maintain

PSE obtains from the payee a Form W-8 or documentary

an account for the payee, to another financial institution

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