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Submitting your U.S. tax info to Google

Important: Make sure you submit a tax form, and if eligible, claim a tax treaty benefit by Dec. 10th each year. This applies to all creators, even if you don't live in the US.

Monetizing creators should check and update their tax info in AdSense for YouTube each year. Even if nothing has changed, your tax forms expire at the end of the third full calendar year, after the year of signing. This means that you will need to submit your tax info again every few years, even if nothing changes. Learn more about tax form expiration.

If you don’t share tax info, Google may be required to withhold taxes worldwide using the maximum tax rate. Your tax rate will depend on your AdSense for YouTube account type and country.

Check your tax info and claim a tax treaty benefit:

  • Make sure we got your tax info. Double check that your tax form status is a green “Approved” in AdSense for YouTube.
  • Confirm with your tax advisor if you’re eligible to make a claim for treaty benefits. A tax treaty benefit can reduce the tax withholding rate for certain income types:
    • Other Copyright Royalties (such as YouTube Partner Program and Google Play)
    • Services (such as Google AdSense)

Learn more about tax withholding on YouTube or review FAQs on submitting your U.S. tax info to Google.

To help with submitting your U.S. tax info in AdSense for YouTube, we’ve collected some useful FAQs you can use for reference. These will help you understand more details around the information you’ll need to provide when submitting your U.S. tax info to Google.

While the questions in the tax form are available in your AdSense for YouTube supported language, the fields in the tax form only support upper- or lower-case letters (a-z, A-Z), numbers (0-9), spaces, hyphens (-) and ampersands (&). This is due to tax reporting requirements by the Internal Revenue Service (the U.S. tax authority, also known as the IRS).

Note: YouTube and Google can’t provide advice on tax issues. Consult a tax professional to better understand your tax situation.

Submitting tax info to Google

All monetizing creators on YouTube, regardless of their location in the world, are required to provide tax info. Creators are also required to re-submit their tax info every few years, or if their circumstances change enough that it impacts the validity of the form. Please submit your tax info as soon as possible. If tax info isn’t provided, Google may be required to deduct up to 24% of your total earnings worldwide.

You can follow the instructions below to submit your U.S. tax info to Google. Note that you may be asked to re-submit tax info every three years.

  1. Sign in to your AdSense for YouTube account.
  2. Click Payments and then Payments info.
  3. Click Manage settings.
  4. Scroll to "Payments profile" and click edit Edit next to "United States tax info".
  5. Click Manage tax info.
  6. On this page you'll find a guide that will help you to select the appropriate form for your tax situation.
    Tip: After you submit your tax information, follow the instructions above to check the “United States tax info” section of your Payments profile to find the tax withholding rates that may apply to your payments.

    You’ll also be able to make any edits in case your individual or business circumstances change. If you've changed your address, make sure your updated permanent address is the same in both sections: "Permanent residence address" and "Legal address". This will ensure that your year-end tax forms (e.g., 1099-MISC, 1099-K, 1042-S) are delivered to the correct location. If you’re in the US, you must resubmit your W-9 form with your updated legal address.

To see more context on U.S. tax requirements, go to U.S. tax requirements for YouTube earnings. For MCN-specific guidance, go to Tax requirements for MCNs and affiliate channels
Important: Google will never send unsolicited messages asking for your password or other personal info. Before clicking a link, always check that the email is sent from an @youtube.com or @google.com email address.

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