Form W-9 - Document Skill - ABBYY Documentation

The Form W-9, Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification skill extracts data from Forms W-9, which are documents that are used to request the Taxpayer Identification Numbers of a US citizen (as well as of non-citizen tax residents) and confirm tax exemption applications. This form helps organizations obtain important payment recipient information required by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This skill has been configured to process Forms W-9 dated December 1999 and later. The Form W-9, Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification skill is a preview skill. It has been trained on a limited set of documents and is designed to help you quickly get started with processing Forms W-9. For production use, you may need to uptrain the skill with your own document samples. This skill recognizes handwritten text. The option is enabled by default. If you do not import handwritten forms, disable the Handwritten option in the skill settings.

Countries and Languages

Countries	Languages
USA	English

Basic Information

Field	Description
Name	The name of the taxpayer.
Business Name	The organization name (if not the same as the Name field).

Federal Tax Classification

Field	Description
Federal Tax Classification	The federal tax classification. The value of the field can be one of the following (marked): Individual/Sole Proprietor or Single-member LLC, C Corporation, S Corporation, Partnership, Trust or Estate, Limited Liability Company (LLC), Other.
Tax Classification	Tax classification for LLC’s. Can have one of the following values: C Corporation, S Corporation, Partnership. This field is filled in if the value of Federal Tax Classification is Limited Liability Company.
Other Tax Classification	Tax type not present in the list. This field is filled in if the value of Federal Tax Classification is Other.

Exemption Information

Field	Description
Exempt Payee Code (If Any)	Payment recipient’s Exempt payee code (if applicable).
Exemption from FATCA Reporting Code (If Any)	FATCA reporting exemption code (if applicable).

Address Information

Field	Description
Address (Number, Street, and Apt. or Suite No.)	The address of the taxpayer.
City, State, and ZIP Code	The address of the taxpayer.

Account and Contact Information

Field	Description
List Account Number(s)	A list of the taxpayer’s account numbers.
Requester’s Name and Address	The name and address of the requester.

Identification Numbers

Field	Description
Social Security Number	Employee Social Security Number (SSN) and Employer Identification Number (EIN). Only one field is filled in.
Employer Identification Number	Employee Social Security Number (SSN) and Employer Identification Number (EIN). Only one field is filled in.

Signature Information

Field	Description
Date	Date signed.

Key Fields

Name
Business Name
Federal Tax Classification
Exempt payee code
Exemption from FATCA Reporting Code
Social Security Number
Employer Identification Number
Date

Validation Rules

Rule	Description
Checkmark check	Checks that only one field from the Federal Tax Classification group is filled in. If none or more than one fields are filled in, displays an error message.
Format SSN and EIN	Checks the values of the Social Security Number and Employer Identification Number fields, standardizing them to the formats DDD-DD-DDDD and DD-DDDDDDD respectively.

​Countries and Languages

​Basic Information

​Federal Tax Classification

​Exemption Information

​Address Information

​Account and Contact Information

​Identification Numbers

​Signature Information

​Key Fields

​Validation Rules