### Comment:
My Bank (ING) takes care of the double taxation on US stocks for me. There's no tax hassle, no waiting to get my money back a year later, nothing of the sort. They also don't take a commission on paying out dividends. There's a 0.25% adjustment to the currency conversion rate in their favor that amounts to roughly 2€ for every 1000€ paid out, but that's it. 
  
 In fairness, though, their regular transaction costs are quite high. 
  
 &amp;#x200B;

### REPLY:
Do you remember signing a form? Something like [this](https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw8ben.pdf)?

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