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We're going to have to accept U.S. only companies to start with. However, I can't see us launching this without allowing for non-U.S. contractors. Gittip itself has people outside the U.S. that we need to deal in from the start. See [Publication 515 (2013), Withholding of Tax on Nonresident Aliens and Foreign Entities](http://www.irs.gov/publications/p515/ar01.html). It sounds like the short story is that non-resident aliens will need to get an ITIN (like an SSN; form [W-7](http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw7.pdf)) and then will be taxed 30%(!) unless there's a treaty with their country (which there probably is? no idea, really). This begs the question: what about money we're moving right now? It puts rather a damper on Gittip to have to withhold 30% of everything paid out outside the U.S. Also a damper to have to require ITINs, etc. Hmm ...\r\n\r\n> - need to require opt-in plus paperwork to receive money from a team\r\n  - storing SSNs/ITINs ... what does that do to our hosting situation? Do we need to get into PCI compliance here?\r\n  - again, begging the question of what this would then mean for our existing setup&mdash;would the IRS have us withhold 30% from all payouts?\r\n\r\n<bountysource-plugin>\r\n---\r\nWant to back this issue? **[Post a bounty on it!](https://www.bountysource.com/issues/410029-sort-out-tax-reporting-for-teams?utm_campaign=plugin&utm_content=tracker%2F85909&utm_medium=issues&utm_source=github)** We accept bounties via [Bountysource](https://www.bountysource.com/?utm_campaign=plugin&utm_content=tracker%2F85909&utm_medium=issues&utm_source=github).\r\n</bountysource-plugin>"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/gratipay/gratipay.com/issues/comments/207855013","html_url":"https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/issues/960#issuecomment-207855013","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/gratipay/gratipay.com/issues/960","id":207855013,"user":{"login":"whit537","id":134455,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/134455?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537","html_url":"https://github.com/whit537","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/whit537/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-04-09T21:14:05Z","updated_at":"2016-04-09T21:14:05Z","body":"I'm pretty sure that https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/242 covers this. Adding to \"Bring Back Payroll\" so we notice to close this if we're able to."}}