What is a W-9 Form and Where can I get one?
The W-9 Form reports the following: • Official name (University of Utah) • Tax identification number (87-6000525), and • Appropriate address to which sponsor should send reimbursement – meaning • Sponsors may require a completed and signed U.S. Federal Governments’s INternal Revenue Service (IRS) W-9 form for tax reporting services. You can obtain W-9 forms for the University of Utah Tax Service’s website. Click on “Form W-9 (University’s Form W-9),” which is a PDF document. You may also obtain a signed W-9 form from the Office of Sponsored Projects. Sometimes sponsors design their own form instead of using the official IRS W-9 form. Please send these “substitute W-9 forms” to OSP for signature. In general, for restricted research accounts, we ask that all checks be sent directly to Research Accounting. For clinical studies, however, PIs / CRCs may request that sponsors mail checks and related documentation to their attention, as PIs are responsible fore invoicing clinical sponsors and
