Oh Cybernesco!

I've just realised you must be Denis from the Legal Forum who's been doing all their homework and come up with some good ammo!!

Have you heard back from Fotolia after you more than likely blasted them?!

(if you are not the same Denis, then oops!)

Princess Hiya

If you look at one of my last posts on the fotolia forum re this, I logged into my bigstock account the other day and all I had to do with regards this tax thing was tick a box saying I was from the UK !!!!

Warren

PS Nice to see you here Princess you will have to get a photo of yourself loaded lol

Hey Warren! Nice to see you here too! 

Why can't it be as simple as BigStock?! After all, if the UK has a tax treaty with the US, then as a UK citizen, there is no tax to pay, end of story.

I've chickened out of posting a photo of myself and stuck to my usual PZ that always comes out blury no matter what I do. Actually, I don't have a pic of myself from recent months, so that's also another excuse. 

I do want to speak to you about your experiences with various sites. I've only recently started tarting myself on new agencies, and would welcome your feedback. Do they do PMs here?

I submitted my W8BEN to Fotolia and that got accepted before all this hoo-hah about the ITIN. After Chad (head of US operations) posted on the forum that if we need an ITIN, we should contact support to get a W7 certificate. I did contact support for this and they replied by asking me what the certificate was for!!! I had even quoted Chad's post and explained what it was for! I replied repeating more or less what I'd said the first time and I finally got a reply that I was going to be emailed the W7 certificate. I got it a few days later.

Then a Fotolia member pointed out that from his experience, the IRS DO NOT accept anything other than an original paper confirmation, not a PDF!!! So some people would have gone to all the expense and time wasted to apply for the ITIN with the pdf only to be back at square one!

So a few of us discussing this have decided to do nothing about it and just wait for Fotolia to announce that the ITIN is not required! The whole thing is a joke!