Explanation of the Form 1042 S Uwservice Wisc

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hey there youtube so in this video i wanted to cover how to complete irs form 1042 s so this form 1042s is titled foreign persons u.s source income subject to withholding so when do you need to complete this form anytime you as a u.s payor are making payments to a foreign person so it's a non-resident individual or non-resident company and it's of us source income you generally need to file this form and it's also filed whether there's any withholding tax or not if you have withholding tax you definitely need to file this because you have to appropriately record how much income was paid to the non-resident and how much tax is being withheld and sent to the irs so i've got a sample form in front of us and then one slide that we're just going to go over really quickly and then we'll jump back to the form itself okay so the form like i said it is required to report u.s source payments to non-residents and this applies whether or not any withholding tax is required so for example a lot of