Originally Posted by
Aaron
Without going into our own FIF regime etc etc I came across these W8-Bens recently in relation to business income from a US company that wanted to deduct a 30% withholding tax. Reading the W8-BEN and the double tax agreement, business income should be 0% but I have yet to hear back if they agree with me or not. In your case dividend income per Article 10 should not exceed 15% so I guess 15% is what you put on the W8-BEN assuming you are a NZ resident.
Not confident that this is right so best to check elsewhere and would appreciate it if you get back with what you find out.
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