Tax profile requiring an US-tax form for non-US account

Hello, all. I am about to submit a first version of an app to MS team evaluation before it goes to MS Store and one of the steps is to fill out a tax profile. While filling it in my partner center ...

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alexdrenea-ms
Mar 14, 2025
Hi,

You are only required to fill in the tax profile if you are publishing what we call a "transactable" offer.

A transactable offer means your customer will purchase your app directly from the Azure Marketplace / App Source and will pay the associated cost (that you have configured) to Microsoft (either as part of their Azure bill for Azure Marketplace or other subscriptions for AppSource).

This means that Microsoft will collect the money from the customer and subsequently pay you.

Since Microsoft is a US company, they require that W-8BEN form to certify that they will be making payments to a non-US resident for tax purposes.

Hope this clarifies your question

Alex

alexdrenea-ms

Microsoft

Mar 14, 2025

Hi,

You are only required to fill in the tax profile if you are publishing what we call a "transactable" offer.

A transactable offer means your customer will purchase your app directly from the Azure Marketplace / App Source and will pay the associated cost (that you have configured) to Microsoft (either as part of their Azure bill for Azure Marketplace or other subscriptions for AppSource).

This means that Microsoft will collect the money from the customer and subsequently pay you.

Since Microsoft is a US company, they require that W-8BEN form to certify that they will be making payments to a non-US resident for tax purposes.

Hope this clarifies your question

Alex