W-9 forms - new thing for 2006 FIRST Registration

[Beth Sweet]

Originally Posted by Mark Pettit

I'm on the side of "Why does FIRST need this from our team?", however, I also don't want to be the team at the kickoff that finds out I can't receive my kit because FIRST never received my W-9. Thus, I filled it out and faxed it in as soon as I read that "Every US based team must submit a W-9".
'Jumped through that hoop!

I'm going to go out on a limb here and think that I understand why we have to make this submission. I know that last year we just had everyone we talked to send their money directly to FIRST and by the end of the season, there was a little bit too much money turned into FIRST and they had to send some of it back to us. At that point they needed a W-9 from us so that they could send the money, I suppose to prove that the money was being sent to another non profit so there would be no tax issues. Once again, this is just me pretending to know what's going on but that would be my best guess.