# W-8BEN on your own & 30% withhold **URL:** \ **Category:** Investing / Brokers\ **Created:** [December 16, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/w-8ben-on-your-own-30-withhold/2924 "2019-12-16T20:57:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
**Author:** ![OogieBoogie](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/user_avatar/forum.mustachianpost.com/oogieboogie/32/2003_2.png) [@OogieBoogie](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/OogieBoogie)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/w-8ben-on-your-own-30-withhold/2924/31 "2019-12-17T20:30:37Z")
This question was raised some times and according to that Swissquote is QI. > [@US vs. IE based funds if you dont qualify for W8BEN](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/us-vs-ie-based-funds-if-you-dont-qualify-for-w8ben/1292/37): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/w-8ben-on-your-own-30-withhold/2924)._