W-8BEN for a Portugal seller

Greetings everyone!

Can I please get some help and guidance on this form? 

I’ve read a lot of links and information about the article, percentage, rate and reasons, and I’m so very lost and confused… :confused:

I’m personal, not a company, based in Portugal and I want to try to sell on Zazzle with my images.

Grateful ahead :heart:

Hi,

I think you are struggling to fill out Part II of the form. In this part, you have to add tax information. You can view the U.S.-Portugal tax treaty here. Article 13, which is about royalties, is of your use in this document. I have asked ChatGPT to fill out the form based on the U.S.-Portugal tax treaty and it returned the following results, 

9.
“I certify that the beneficial owner is a resident of Portugal within the meaning of the income tax treaty between the United States and that country.”

10.
“The beneficial owner is claiming the provisions of Article 13, paragraph 2 of the treaty identified on line 9 above to claim a 10% rate of withholding on royalty income.”

You can further read the treaty document yourself as this is AI-generated. Thanks

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Greetings Waqar!

About to get some sleep after night shift, and I’ll check it later with a better mind :sweat_smile:

Thank you so much for your help!