The 15% withholding is negotiable.
A working FIRPTA platform for the people doing the work. Generate real IRS Forms 8288, 8288-A, and 8288-B from a single data entry. Track the case from intake to refund. Built for firms, title agents, and foreign sellers.
Enter the closing once. The platform fills the actual fillable fields on the IRS PDFs — verified by visually labeling each field on the official forms — then tracks the case through the FIRPTA lifecycle from ITIN application to refund.
Firm admin / EA staff
All cases, all clients. Generate IRS PDFs, move cases through the lifecycle, manage the team.
Title-agent partner
Submit closings as the withholding agent. Watch the cases you sent us flow through to filing.
Foreign seller (client)
Upload your documents, see exactly where your 8288-B and refund stand. No more email back-and-forth.
No one else
Role-based access. A title agent never sees another title agent's cases. A client never sees another client's case.
The Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act of 1980 requires the buyer of a U.S. real property interest from a foreign person to withhold federal income tax — generally 15% of the gross amount realized — and remit it to the IRS within 20 days. Most foreign sellers are over-withheld; Form 8288-B reduces the withholding to actual tax liability.