You can deposit the funds without any tax details or linking any bank account. But you cannot withdraw it without one.
If transferring money without SSN is illegal; I wonder how collecting it without one would be legal.
If transferring money without SSN is illegal; I wonder how collecting it without one would be legal.
One place an American can usually quite easily check this is at your local gambling area. They are locked by the same rules. If you win big at the horse races, you don't get to take your money until you fill out tax paperwork.
This is no different, except that OP is international, and didn't know our rules as a result.
Two, these rules do not come from PayPal; they come from the US Federal Government.
Three, the thing you're saying they should make clear is something someone else guessed about, and it's not correct. As long as the number is under $600 a year, there's no paperwork required.
I don't understand why we're all panicking so hard about a set of guesses that people have made. If you just think the situation over a little bit, it's pretty obvious that what's really going on is OP hasn't finished his free tax paperwork, and that PayPal can't hand out money until the tax situation is made legal.
And when you look at it that way, PayPal is actually doing exactly the right thing.
I'm very interested in what tax laws you believe he's broken though.