Enclosure 6 - W-8 Form (Foreign).pdf

This is Form W-8 (Rev. February 1991), Certificate of Foreign Status, issued by the Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service. The form is used to certify foreign status for tax purposes, specifically for nonresident alien individuals, foreign corporations, partnerships, estates, or trusts to notify payers, mortgage interest recipients, brokers, or barter exchanges of their foreign status.

The form is included as Enclosure 6 in RFP 460297 for a Laser Ablation Sample Preparation Tool being solicited by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC for Brookhaven National Laboratory under a Department of Energy contract. The form is a standard IRS document that allows foreign entities to claim exemption from certain U.S. information return reporting and backup withholding rules. It includes sections for providing permanent address, mailing address, account information, and certification of foreign status for either interest payments or broker transactions/barter exchanges. The form must be filed before payments are made and may need to be renewed periodically at the payer's request.