Google says missing tax info can trigger withholding. If I fix the form now, does it help future payouts only or past ones too?
I live in the UAE and one of my Google payout notices made me realize the tax information in the payments center was incomplete. I updated the records right away, but I am unsure whether that mainly affects future payouts or whether it somehow fixes the older months too. I also do not know whether I should expect a 1042-S if withholding already happened.
I am not asking for a refund strategy yet. I mostly want to understand how founders should think about timing once a Google tax-form problem is discovered after some payouts were already processed.
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