W-8BEN on your own & 30% withhold

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This question was raised some times and according to that Swissquote is QI.

US vs. IE based funds if you dont qualify for W8BEN

All Swiss brokers I know of (that is CS, Migrosbank and SQ) are Qualified Intermediaries. So for most us (domicile CH (i.e. with treaty) and QI) US takes 15%, this is “nicht rückforderbar” but at least it gets “angerechnet” by Switzerland (due to treaty) Switzerland takes another 15% (“zusätzlicher Steuerrückbehalt USA”) which gets refunded in the same way as Verrechnungssteuer, if u declare correctly. I would like to know which Swiss Broker is not “respectable” / a QI, cos I don’t know of a…