Tax Residency Self Certification form

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My nan has a few shares in a company that she inherited. Neither of us really understand anything about them so we just muddle through. She's been asked to fill in one of the above forms, which is easy enough to do, I'm just wondering why they're asking. Can anyone help?

She's never even been abroad on holiday let alone lived abroad

A hopeful bump for the evening crowd.

It might be to check they she isn’t an American? They are one of the only countries in the world where citizens retain tax residency regardless of where they live, and some older people who didn’t realise they even had citizenship there (perhaps they were born there but moved away as children or got it through a parent) have been caught out. Companies have to go above and beyond to make sure they do due diligence with US citizens now because the penalties for tax reporting non-compliance are intense.

Thank you, Linguaphile, there was mention of America somewhere on the form so that might well explain it.

I was concerned it was some kind of scam thing but it all looks okay, but then the best ones always do.