Withholding and Reporting
How to avoid withholding and reporting on foreign persons
1. What do do The approaches documented on this site are highly unconventional and unfamiliar to nearly all people. This invites a Dunning-Kruger response from withholding agents, businesses, and financial institutions. When dealing with these people, practicing the “art of the deal” is paramount. All the knowledge in the world is useless without people skills.…
Read More1. ITEMIZED LIST OF CONSEQUENCES Below is a list of all the legal consequences of filling out a W-4 with your business associates: 1. You identified yourself as a GOVERNMENT/FEDERAL employee. The title of the form is “EMPLOYEE withholding allowance certificate. Below is the legal definition of “employee”: 26 U.S. Code § 3401 – Definitions…
Read MoreEDITORIAL 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 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 on…
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 The section deals with four types of civil statuses either with “alien” in their name or connected with aliens. # Name Nonresident Alien NATIONAL(State of the Union) Nonresident Alien NATIONAL(Territory/Possession) Non-Resident Alien OR Nonresident Alien ALIEN Resident Alien 1 Name on this…
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…
Read MoreTABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Introduction This article addresses how to use and not use the W-4 as a nonresident alien. Generally, you should avoid filling out the W-4 and only use it under duress. The correct form to use for withholding instead is the IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8SUB: Another article closely related to this…
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