W8-BEN only for US stocks. When you hold stocks from suisse you must ask suisse tax authorities to pay you back difference. My country (Slovakia) has tax agrement with Suisse to take only 15% from dividend the same with Germany. When you hold german stocks they will take you from dividend25% + solidarity surcharge of 5.5% total 26,375% from dividends you must ask Bundeszentralamt fur Steuern to pay back the difference Claim for refund of German withholding taxes on dividends http://www.bzst.de/DE/Steuern_Inter...ische_Antragsteller/Formulare/E_englisch.html The same must have also suisse tax authorithies.
Thanks for answer, that is how i read it as well. But it's too much work to claim a refund, so i have not bothered