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W-8BEN shaped owner certification (DOCX): Tern Client Services

Beneficial owner certification, W-8BEN shaped (DOCX) for Tern Client Services. A W-8BEN shaped certification for Sample specialist 2, a payee outside the United States. It removes 1,440.00 USD of the 4,320.00 USD of contractor payments from the 1099-NEC population, which is why the 1099 recipient list totals 2,880.00 rather than the full ledger. The PDF twin in the same directory carries the identical text.

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Specifications

Document Set
tax
Industry
retail
Source Kit
retail-commerce
Entity
Tern Client Services
Synthetic
true
As Of
2026-09-08
Certificate Id
W8BEN-WRK-02
Worker Id
WRK-02
Payee Status
non-United States person
Treaty Claimed
false
Payments To Date
1440.00
Renderer
python-docx
Paragraphs
11

Testing contract

Expected to pass
Scenario
Read the payee status and reconcile the 1099-NEC total with the contractor ledger in the contracts set.
Expected result
2880.00 on the 1099-NEC list plus 1440.00 on the 1042-S shaped statement is 4320.00, the contractor ledger total. Reading only the 1099 list and expecting the ledger total leaves a gap of exactly 1440.00 USD, and this certificate is the reason for it.

What is a .docx file?

DOCX is the default Microsoft Word format, an Office Open XML document packaged as a ZIP archive of XML parts, media, and relationships. It stores structured text, styles, tables, images, and metadata. It is the dominant format for editable word-processing documents.

How to use this file

Use an example DOCX to test Office Open XML parsing, text and style extraction, ZIP-package handling, and converters that render or transform Word documents.

How to use this file for testing

“W-8BEN shaped owner certification (DOCX): Tern Client Services” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Data import. Realistic faker-generated datasets with documented schemas for testing import and ETL flows.

Documented properties for this file: DOCX · 37,781 bytes. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such, expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Document fixtures list their internal structure (pages, fields, tracked changes, embedded objects) in the spec table. Test extractors, converters, and OCR against that known structure, and compare searchable↔scanned or format-twin companions when present.

Code examples

from docx import Document  # pip install python-docx

doc = Document("form-w8ben-WRK-02.docx")
for p in doc.paragraphs[:10]:
    print(p.text)

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