Federal Notice of Expatriation and Waiver of Treaty Benefits

Notice of Expatriation and Waiver of Treaty Benefits
Form W-8CE (Rev. October 2025)
W-8CE

Form
(Rev. October 2025)
Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service

Notice of Expatriation and Waiver of Treaty Benefits
OMB No. 1545-2138

Give this form to the payer. Do not send to the IRS.
Go to www.irs.gov/FormW8CE for the latest information.

Name of owner

U.S. taxpayer identification number

Permanent address

Expatriation date

City, province or state, postal code, and country
Current mailing address, if different from permanent address. Include apt. or suite no., or P.O. box if mail is not delivered to street address.
City, town or post office, state, and ZIP code. If you have a foreign address, enter city, province or state, postal code, and country.

Under penalties of perjury, I certify that I am a covered expatriate (as defined in the instructions below). Furthermore, I authorize this
form to be provided to any withholding agent that has control, receipt, or custody of the income of which I am the beneficial owner or
any withholding agent that can disburse or make payments of the income of which I am the beneficial owner.
Account Number

Name of payer
For the payer above, check the box below if you had any of the following items on the day before your
expatriation date (see instructions).

(or other identifying information)

1 Eligible Deferred Compensation Item. Checking this box notifies the payer that you are
irrevocably waiving any right to claim any reduction in withholding for such eligible deferred
compensation item under any treaty with the United States (see instructions) . . . . . .
2 Ineligible Deferred Compensation Item .

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3 Specified Tax Deferred Account .

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4 Nongrantor Trust. Checking this box notifies the payer that you will be treated as having
waived any right to claim any reduction in withholding on any distribution from this trust under
any treaty with the United States (see instructions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Checking this box notifies the payer that you are electing to be treated as having received the value of your interest in
the trust on the day before your expatriation date and that you will be subject to withholding under section 877A until the
payer receives (a) a copy of the letter ruling issued by the IRS stating the value of your interest in the trust, and (b) your
certification that you have paid any tax due on the receipt of the value of your interest in the trust (see instructions).

Date

Signature

Section references are to the Internal Revenue Code unless
otherwise noted.

Future Developments
For the latest information about developments related to Form
W-8CE and its instructions, such as legislation enacted after they
were published, go to www.irs.gov/FormW8CE.

General Instructions
Purpose of Form
Form W-8CE is used to notify the payer that you are a covered
expatriate individual subject to special tax rules.

Covered Expatriate
You are a covered expatriate if you meet any of the following on the
date of your expatriation.
1. Your average annual net income tax liability for the 5 tax years
ending before the date of expatriation is more than $206,000 for
2025. This amount is indexed for inflation. For years after 2025, see
the Instructions for Form 8854 for the adjusted amount.
2. Your net worth was $2 million or more on the date of your
expatriation.
For Paperwork Reduction Act Notice, see page 2.

3. You fail to certify on Form 8854 that you have complied with all
federal tax obligations for the 5 tax years preceding the date of your
expatriation.
Exceptions to covered expatriate. Statements (1) and (2) do not
apply if either of the following is true.
• You became at birth a U.S. citizen and a citizen of another
country. As of your expatriation date, you continue to be a citizen of
the other country, you are taxed as a resident of that other country,
and you were a resident of the United States for not more than 10
tax years during the last 15-tax-year period ending with the tax year
in which you expatriated.
• You relinquished U.S. citizenship before the age of 18½, and you
were a resident of the United States for not more than 10 tax years
before your expatriation date.
Expatriate. An expatriate is a U.S. citizen who relinquished
citizenship or a long-term resident who ceased to be a lawful
permanent resident.
Long-term resident. For expatriation purposes, a long-term
resident is any individual who was a lawful permanent resident of
the United States in at least 8 out of the last 15 tax years ending
with the tax year of expatriation.
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Expatriation date. Your expatriation date is the date you
relinquished U.S. citizenship or the date on which you ceased to be
a lawful permanent U.S. resident.

Who Must File
Covered expatriates are required to give Form W-8CE to the payer if
they had any of the items identified in boxes 1 through 4 on the day
before their expatriation date. In addition, all expatriates must file
Form 8854 with the Internal Revenue Service.
Deferred compensation items. Deferred compensation items
include any interest in a plan or arrangement described in section
219(g)(5), any interest in a foreign pension plan or similar retirement
arrangement or program, any item of deferred compensation, and
any property, or right to property, that the individual is entitled to
receive in connection with the performance of services to the extent
not previously taken into account under section 83 or in accordance
with section 83.
Eligible deferred compensation item (box 1). A deferred
compensation item is an eligible deferred compensation item if the
following three conditions are met.
1. The payer is either a U.S. person or a foreign person electing to
be treated as a U.S. person for purposes of section 877A(d)(1).
(Separate guidance will be issued providing procedures to make
this election.)
2. You notify the payer of your status as a covered expatriate.
3. You irrevocably waive any right to claim any withholding
reduction under any treaty with the United States on Form 8854.
Check box 1 if you have an eligible deferred compensation item.
Checking this box provides notice to the payer that you are a
covered expatriate who is waiving benefits under any treaty with the
United States for the eligible deferred compensation item.
Ineligible deferred compensation item (box 2). A deferred
compensation item is an ineligible deferred compensation item if the
three conditions listed above are not met.
Check box 2 if you have an ineligible deferred compensation item.
Checking this box provides notice to the payer that you are a
covered expatriate who is to be treated as receiving an amount
equal to the present value of your accrued benefit on the day before
your expatriation date.
Specified tax deferred account (box 3). Specified tax deferred
accounts include individual retirement plans (as defined in section
7701(a)(37)) other than arrangements described in subsection (k) or
(p) of section 408, qualified tuition programs (as defined in section
529), qualified ABLE programs (as defined in section 529A),
Coverdell education savings accounts (as defined in section 530),
health savings accounts (as defined in section 223), and Archer
MSAs (as defined in section 220).
Check box 3 if you have a specified tax deferred account.
Checking this box provides notice to the payer that you are a
covered expatriate who is to be treated as receiving a distribution of
your entire interest in the account on the day before your
expatriation date.
Nongrantor trust (box 4). A nongrantor trust is the part of any trust,
whether U.S. or foreign, of which you were not considered the
owner under sections 671 through 679 on the day before your
expatriation date. The withholding rules of section 877A apply to a
nongrantor trust only if you were a beneficiary on the day before
your expatriation date.
Check box 4 if you were the beneficiary of a nongrantor trust on
the day before your expatriation date. Checking this box provides
notice to the trustee that you are a covered expatriate who, unless
the box below box 4 is checked, is deemed to have waived any
right to claim any reduction in withholding on any distribution from
this trust under any treaty with the United States.
Election to be treated as receiving value of interest in the
trust. You can elect to pay tax currently on the value of your
interest in the trust if you first obtain a letter ruling from the IRS
stating the value of your interest in the trust as of the day before
your expatriation date. Make the election on Form 8854. Attach the
valuation letter ruling to Form 8854 and file Form 8854 with your

Form 1040 or Form 1040-NR. An election is not valid unless your
income tax return is filed by the due date (including extensions).

When To File
File Form W-8CE on the earlier of (a) the day before the first
distribution on or after the expatriation date, or (b) thirty (30) days
after the expatriation date for each specified tax deferred account,
item of deferred compensation, or interest in a nongrantor trust.

Where To File
Give Form W-8CE to each payer of the income described earlier.
Keep a copy for your own records.

Instructions for Payer
As a result of receiving notification of expatriation on Form W-8CE,
you may have a requirement to withhold tax under section 877A or
to report information to the IRS.
Eligible deferred compensation item. You must withhold 30% on
any taxable payment to the covered expatriate.
Ineligible deferred compensation item. You must advise the
covered expatriate within 60 days of receipt of this form of the
present value of the individual’s accrued benefit in the deferred
compensation item on the day before the expatriation date.
Specified tax deferred account. You must advise the covered
expatriate within 60 days of receipt of this form of the individual’s
entire interest in the account on the day before the expatriation
date.
Nongrantor trust. If the covered expatriate elects to be treated as
receiving the value of his or her interest in the nongrantor trust on
the day before his or her expatriation date, you must provide the
covered expatriate within 60 days of receipt of this form with the
information needed to calculate the value of his or her interest in the
trust as of the day before the expatriation date. This information
includes the following.
• A copy of the trust deed document.
• A list of assets held by the trust on the day before the expatriation
date and the values of such assets.
• Relevant information about the interests of the other beneficiaries.
• Dates of birth of all persons who constitute measuring lives for
any distributions.
• Policies used by trustees in making discretionary distributions (if
any) that may constitute an ascertainable standard.
• Any other relevant information.
If you do not provide such documents and information to the
covered expatriate, then the election is not valid and you must
withhold 30% on any taxable distributions from the trust.
If the covered expatriate makes the election, you must withhold
30% on any taxable distribution from the trust until you receive (a) a
copy of the valuation letter ruling issued by the IRS, and (b) the
covered expatriate’s certification under penalties of perjury that he
or she has paid any tax due on the value of the trust that he or she
is treated as receiving.
Paperwork Reduction Act Notice. We ask for the information on
this form to carry out the Internal Revenue laws of the United
States. You are required to provide the information. We need it to
ensure that you are complying with these laws and to allow us to
figure and collect the right amount of tax.
The time needed to complete and file this form will vary
depending on individual circumstances. The estimated average time
is: Recordkeeping, 3 hr., 35 min.; Learning about the law or the
form, 1 hr., 00 min.; Preparing and sending the form, 1 hr., 6 min.
If you have comments concerning the accuracy of these time
estimates or suggestions for making this form simpler, we would be
happy to hear from you. You can send us comments through
www.irs.gov/FormComments. Or you can send your comments to
Internal Revenue Service, Tax Forms and Publications, 1111
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20224. Do not send Form
W-8CE to this address. Instead, give it to the payer.