How to get paid on eHow if you're not US resident?

Question

There's written that if you want to get paid for your written articles, you must be a U.S resident, age 18 or older with valid tax payer identification. But what to do if you want to get paid and you're not a US resident and also don't have any tax payer identification? Is there any way?

Answer 1

Nope, you won't be paid. Because trying to pay a person out of the country would involve ridiculous amounts of paperwork for the IRS, your personal info, then declaring that income to your country's government, then you'd have to report your income to them as well, and it's just a total mess and not worth dealing with.

Answer 2

If they limit payment to US residents then you are not eligible to be paid by them.  There are ways that US companies can pay non-resident aliens, however some companies don't want to be bothered with the record keeping requirements involved.  If they choose to do business that way there's nothing that you can do to change that.

eHow's position on this is quite clear and is explained in their FAQ:

Q. I am not a citizen or legal resident of the United States, but I do have a PayPal email address. Can I be paid?

A. No. The Writer's Compensation Program is not available for non-US citizens or non-US residents at this time.

Here's a link to the FAQ:  http://www.ehow.com/about_us/FAQ_ehow.as...

Answer 3

I have heard of ways people do this but from what I gather it is not legal so I would bother repeating it here.