Can I use Form 8233 for a treaty-exempt stipend that is not compensation if the same university also pays me treaty-exempt teaching wages?
This is one of those cases where the facts are mixed enough to make the forms feel slippery. The university pays me for teaching work, but it also pays a separate stipend that is not compensation. Because the payer is the same and the treaty position connects to both flows in different ways, I want to know whether Form 8233 can handle the whole picture or only the compensation side.
I am trying to avoid the classic mistake where the paperwork is almost right but misses a technical condition buried in the instructions. If the noncompensatory piece can go on Form 8233 only because the same withholding agent is also paying treaty-exempt compensation, I need that distinction clear before we set up withholding.
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