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EDITORIAL COMMENT: This dialog contains equivocation surrounding whether “U.S. national” is a nonresident alien so it fails the “law of noncontradiction” so it can’t be entirely true. See in Question 7: But crucially, “nonresident alien” is defined by reference to 26 U.S.C. § 7701(b)(1)(B), which—when read in light of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(3)—excludes U.S. nationals, because they are not aliens.…
Read More1. The BIG picture Also, the U.S. person election in this article operates INDEPENDENT of the W-4 “wage” election. That is a completely different subject. In most cases, “nonresident aliens” receiving W-2’s are permitted to exclude their earnings by regulation from taxation, and also are not required to “effectively connect” those earnings by entering them…
Read More1. Background Although the Internal Revenue Code properly recognizes your right to choose a nonresident alien status and be unenumerated, banks and financial institutions are so heavily regulated that they often take a position at odds with this lifestyle. As part of their Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) compliance measures, financial institutions…
Read MoreHow to deal with banks auditing your status as an Nonresident Alien after opening a foreign account.
1. Introduction Those who previously and successfully opened a bank account as a nonresident alien by using a W-8 rather than a W-9 may subsequently and sometimes repetitively be contacted by the bank because they their status looks suspicious or out of the norm from other account holders, who are almost universally “U.S. persons” who…
Read MoreIntroduction A common practice of mortgage lenders during the loan qualification process is to ask you to sign an IRS Form 4506T requesting your tax returns over a period of years as a way to verify your income. The amount they will loan is usually limited by your income and computed from your income. The…
Read MoreEDITORIAL: Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Edge Browser, version 131. QUESTION 1: Write a legal proof proving that “nationals of the United States” are included in the “nonresident aliens” but not for withholding purposes in 26 C.F.R. 1.1441-1 because the definition of “individual” at 26 C.F.R. 1.1441-1(c)(3 ) is more restrictive. ANSWER 1: Certainly! Here’s a structured…
Read MoreSOURCE: Proof that American Nationals are Nonresident Aliens, Form #09.081, Section 6.1; https://sedm.org/Forms/09-Procs/ProofAnNRA.pdf # Name Nonresident Alien NATIONAL Non-Resident Alien OR Nonresident Alien ALIEN Resident Alien 1 International? No Yes Yes 2 IRS pub described in NO IRS publication! They don’t want you to know! IRS Pub 519 IRS Pub 519 3 Described or defined…
Read MoreEDITORIAL: This series of questions comes incorporated into the substitute W-8BEN form below that we provide. They are provided here for your reuse in other circumstances: W-8SUB, Form #04.231https://sedm.org/Forms/04-Tax/2-Withholding/W-8SUB.pdf IMPORTANT NOTE: The subject of use of the nonresident alien position by American Nationals is a subject of great disinformation and misunderstanding by the public. If…
Read MoreEDITORIAL: Throughout this website, we repeatedly state that THE two major problems we are combatting are: An example of the problems introduced by item #2 above is described in the following AI Discovery: AI DISCOVERY: Abuse of State Driver Licensing Monopoly to effect Unconstitutional Conditions that Destroy Rights, SEDMhttps://sedm.org/ai-discovery-abuse-of-state-driver-licensing-monopoly-to-effect-unconstitutional-conditions-that-destroy-rights/ The purpose of this attachment for…
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