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Determining U.S. source income for software services

June 12, 2023
June 15, 2023

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Q. If payment is made to foreign Canada vendor that submitted a W-8BEN-E for hosting electronic medical record system which includes a monthly maintenance and annual hosting fees, how do we determine if this is U.S. source income? A. (Answered by IOFM's third-party tax experts) Under current usage:  If software for this service was downloaded by your institution here in the United States, the payment is classified as U.S.-source income; or if the program and services are hosted by the foreign…

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