Hello, I'm a student from europe. I have been earning online with clickbank and cpa networks before. I'm now with a new network and they are making trouble about my w8ben form. they say I either have to give a us tax number or else they will take 30% of my earnings. Now from my understanding a w8ben is just to show I'm not from the us, don't have bussiness assets in the us and therefore don't need to pay taxes in the Us. I have sent this exact same type of form to over 10 cpa networks and this is the frist time ever they are saying things about holding 30% if I don't have a us tax number. Can anybody who knows about this tell me who is right?