Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Fotolia

Fotolia has followed the Shutterstock model and imposed submitters to submit a W-8BEN form. More than that, they require an ITIN in order to get Treaty benefits. As getting ITIN is hard and laborious and it takes at least two months I proposed my fellow submitters to suspend our accounts till we get our ITIN. Guess what!? Fotolia banned me from forum participation. That is ridiculous and says more than necessary on Fotolia staff.

I strongly recommend to all Fotolia submitters belonging to Treaty Countries to suspend their accounts till we get our ITIN.

God bless us all!
Christian I. Ionescu