My company needs W9 from Upwork for the money we have paid to Upwork

[cbb6bcb0]

Please read below and escalate my ticket to someone that can provide me with your W9.

Upwork is a vendor and I am paying Upwork for services. Therefore I need Upwork's W-9 form, formally titled “Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification.

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This is direct from the IRS website......

A vendor will give you his taxpayer identification number, address and business name, and will certify he is not subject to backup withholding when he sends you a W-9 form, formally titled “Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification."

The Internal Revenue Service requires that you obtain W-9 forms when you make inventory and service purchases from a vendor to create a paper trail that allows the agency to catch vendors who do not report income and to prevent you from claiming illegitimate vendor expenses.

The IRS requires that you obtain a W-9 from every vendor from whom you purchase $600 in labor and services or $5,000 in direct sales, but you can request W-9s from vendors for smaller purchases.
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My company can not claim a legitimate vendor expenses for the money we have paid Upwork without a W9.

Please send me your W9 asap or my company will not be using Upwork in the future.

I have already sumbitted an email and they refuse to send me Upwork's W9. At this point, this is an urgent matter. I have attched the exact form that I need. So please supply me with your W9.

[BojanS]

Hi Kiet,

We'll have one of our team members reach out to you directly and provide you required documentation. Thank you!

[135a4157]

Hi,

We need a W9 as well. Not sure why this is not avaiable info for members.

Thanks,

-Hugo

[BojanS]

Thank you for reaching out to us, Hugo.

One of our team members will reach out to you directly via a support ticket to address your request. 

[2328e52d]

I need a w9 too 

[NikolaS]

Hi Daniel,

Thank you for reaching out to us. One of our team members will reach out to you directly via a support ticket to assist you further. You can access your tickets on this page.

[bcd019c8]

My company is also requiring this.  Please reach out to me.

[AveryO]

Hi Casey, 

 A member of the Customer Support Team will reach out to you to assist you with your request.

[77c92ad0]

I also need a W9 from Upwork in order to make payments.  I'm hoping to get one as soon as possible as my accounting department won't move forward without one.  

Thank you,

Laura D'Alessandro

[nkocendova]

Hi Laura,

We'll have one of our agents reach out to directly you to assist with this request.

[029f7ebb]

Please also have someone reach out to me.  I cannot create an entry in our vendor system without a W9.  We may not need it from a legal or tax perspective - but I cant get my organization to change its process to create a vendor without a W9.

[nkocendova]

Hi Chris,

I've requested that one of our agents reach out to you about this request and you'll be hearing from them very shortly. Thanks!

[c94186bb]

We also need a W9. Could you please have someone contact me?

Thanks!

[cylver1z]

Hello Boyd,

Please note that Upwork is an online marketplace, through which users can connect to enter directly into service relationships. Through the marketplace, clients directly engage and pay freelancers to perform services. Upwork acts as an escrow agent and passes funds from the client to the freelancer. That's why we don't believe a W-9 is necessary. Upwork provides 1099-Ks if appropriate to freelancers if certain conditions are met. More information is available here.

[4c0f2e69]

The link mentioned above doesn't work ("The page you were looking for doesn't exist"). But anyway, there is a big gap here:

• if "Upwork provides 1099-Ks ... to freelancers" then it's Upwork which should take care about freelancers W-9 or W-8, and thus Clients need to have W-9 from Upwork (not from freelancers)
• if Clients have to care about freelancers W-9 / W-8 themselves, then according to IRS policies, it's the Clients who have to provide 1099-Ks to their freelancers, and those freelancers will get 1009-Ks whith amounts they have never really received, because those amounts will include all fees and comissions charged by Upwork (even those charged from Clients, not from freelancers)... 

In all cases, Upwork charges "transaction fees" from Clients, which makes it a vendor to those Clients, so Clients need Upwork's W-9 form anyway. 

[kochubei_valeria]

Hi Serge,

Sorry about that, we've fixed the link and it should now lead to the help article.

[kochubei_valeria]

Serge and Aleksandra,

We'll have one of our agents reach out to your company owner directly to discuss this question.

[dia-mercer]

I need to receive a W9 from Upwork for the work that has been paid to Upwork for work done by free lancers.

[BojanS]

Hi Dia,

We'll have one of our team members reach out to you directly via support ticket and provide requested information, thank you.

[585c46a3]

I just spent 40 minutes on the phone with Customer Service to get a copy of the W9 form for Upwork and have SUCCEEDED!!

Attached here for the benefit of all 🙂

**Edited for Community Guidelines** 

[sashakov]

Hey,
Ouк company  also needs W9 form rom Upwork.
Could you please send it to me?

Thanks

[3c296524]

I am in the UK and my company requires that I complete a New Supplier Request form. Within this form I must put the name and address of the supplier (is this the freelancer or UpWork?).

It then asked for Supplier's payment / bank details - again, what should I put here? As it is Upwork we pay..

any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

[BojanS]

Hi Darren,

Thank you for reaching out to us. One of our team members have reached out to you with this ticket and will provide you with more instructions and documents regarding your concern. Let us know if you need further assistance. 

[3c296524]

Thank you, I have passed this to my Finance team. They are now telling me that if I can provide the UpWork bank account number – that will be enough for them to set up a new vendor. Could you please pass me this information?

[g_vasilevski]

Hi Darren,

Please follow up directly on your ticket and our team will assist you further with this information, thank you.

[15eafabd]

Hi Bojan, 

I will also need a W9 for my company. Could you please reach out to me?

[bb3bdd02]

I need your W9 as well since our business requires for all vendors that we are paying for services. WE understand that we do not need to file 1099 as you are a buisness.

[BojanS]

Hi Wade,

One of our team members will reach out to you directly and provide requested documents for you.

Thank you for reaching out to us. 

[donald-miller_jr]

Ok upwork can handle that for u I'm pretty shure I'll make shure you get this

[1a162990]

Hello Nina, 

Could a member of your team reach out to me as well? My company also requires a tax form in order to continue using your services. 

Thank you,

Alison H

[AveryO]

Hi Alison, 

A member of the Customer Support Team will reach out to you to assist you further.

[8ee927b0]

Hello, I need a W9 for my company as well. Please let me know how to get one. Thank you! 

[cbfe27b0]

The customer service team replied to my response on the same day as my request.

[BojanS]

Thank you for reaching out to us, Dani.

One of our team members will reach out to you directly via a support ticket to address your request. 

[704e25f7]

I need the same thing. How can I obtain?

[JoanneP]

Hi Daniel,

I've escalated your concern to the team. One of our agents will reach out and assist you directly via a support ticket.

[9351dc98]

I need the same thing!  The autobot is not helping

[BojanS]

Hi Izzy,

We’ll have one of our agents reach out to you via a support ticket to assist you with your request.

Thank you!

[e0f8cc95]

My company needs a copy of UpWorks W-9 as well.  Can you email that?

Thank you,

[ArjayM]

Hi Josh,

I'll have one of our team members assist you with your request. Please expect an update here or in your email once your request has been fully reviewed. Thank you!

[ba4c9357]

Hello,

My company needs a W-9 as well to make the payments to Upwork. 

Thank you, 

Matt