Hi,
the fab support team forwarded me here so I hope I’m in the correct place now - I’m currently trying to set up my Publisher profile for Fab (and later also for for the games store, but it looks like it is the same process/tax survey) using my Epic games account via https://publish.unrealengine.com/publishing-portal/onboarding/taxInfo .
But I’m stuck at the tax setup since the tax survey generates an incorrect W-8BEN-E form for my company according to my tax accountant. I own & represent an Austrian corporation, have a valid Austrian TIN and all services/development is done outside of the U.S.. I’ve asked my tax accountant to provide me a prefilled W-8BEN-E form so that I don’t make a mistake when filling out the form, but whatever I try I cannot get the same result form the tax survey - the differences are:
- point 5 cannot be filled out, I’d need to select “Active NFFE”
- point 14b can only partially filled, I’d also need to select “Company that meets the ownership and base erosion test”
- point 15 (the most imporant one) if filled out by the tax survey to claim a “service income - 30 %” which I and my tax accountant understand as 30% tax withholding - but this is incorrect according to my tax accountant. There is a tax treaty between the U.S. and Austria (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-trty/austria.pdf) and according to paragraph 7.1. it should be 0%
- point 39 cannot be filled, but I’d need to tick it
I guess that point 5 & 39 might not be that important, but point 15 would be very important to me.
Is this a bug in the tax survey? Is there a way I can provide the correctly prefilled W-8BEN-E form from my tax accountant?
Many thanks in advance!