united-states tax-law treaty egypt
Is there a tax treaty between US and Egypt?
<p>I'm a non-US citizen and I was asked to fill a Form W-8BEN. I googled and I know that there is a tax treaty between US and Egypt but I still don't know the percentage (default tax is 30%). It is also required to specify the type of income and why I should benefit from the treaty. I've never filled a  form like that before. So, I would like to know the types of income and reasons to apply tax reduction.</p>

<p>W.r.t. form W-8BEN, the instructions / explanation for the form are <a href="https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/iw8ben.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. As far as the tax treaty is concerned, the document is <a href="https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-trty/egypt.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>, and the technical explanation is <a href="https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-trty/egypttech.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. You will have to figure out under what treaty provision you can claim a benefit to put on line 10, or hire a specialist in the Egyptian-American tax situation for figure out how this applies to you.</p>
