Do what they say.

if you lied to them and claimed to be from the US, that's not their problem....

WTF?

something similar to this happens when you gain about $600 through market no? they have to do these sorta things when it comes to the market i think

1) Haven't lied about being from the US
2) Most I've made from the market is 3-4 dollars

Did you sell a lot of items on the marketplace? I heard that may cause steam to require that information, not because they want, the IRS or whatever it's called require them to do it. Maybe a national id or service bill that prove your address is outside the US may work as certificate of non-US redicency. Or just send them a W8 form, a W8 form should be enough to allow you to do transactions with US citizens.

this has to be done by every steam member, the country doesnt affect this.
In fact like mentioned its the number of community market transactions which triggers this.
If you are from the US you have to give them your information since after a certain amount of $ you have to pay taxes.
If you are not from US you still have to give them your information but you can tickle a box which says "I'm not a US citizen".

If you have gone through that your account will be unlocked and have no further limitations.

while this topic was brought up. is there a way i can get a concret number of how many transactions ive had for the year?

Probably you bought something from the Store, forgot to change your country when purchasing (by default is United States) and left marked the option "I currently live in this country" (marked by default too).

Had a similar issue but was with steam market limitation, took me like 6 months to fix :)

If I remember correctly, by default, you can only create 200 listings per year. If you want to make more, you have to fill out this form that basically states that if you make more than $20,000 on the marketplace, you get taxed or something like that. Don't worry, it's safe.

What really bothers me is ppl saying "you should as they say!" and not "we need to fix this crap" or "why are they making this? it doest fix the shaddy business"

you must prove yourself that youre not american ALIEN resident

Did you look your transactions history?

I had to do this as well and I'm not American. If you don't provide the information, you can't use the market.

It's likely to happen to me soon, too.
First of all, my country doesn't provide document titled "Certification of non-U.S. Residency" (yes, I am kind of bureaucrat because of my job).
Second, if they want any personal data from me that weren't already included in my transaction details and my debit card info, I will ask them what exact data they want, who is going to recieve them and for long they will be stored.
Both my country and EU laws say also that I should be allowed to review and correct that data on demand for as long as they are stored.

It happened to me as well, but I just gave them what they want because the only thing they ask is registration address (for non-US residents at least).
In case some one so paranoid, there is a workaround: create a new account, login using steam client, make a purchase in steam store, wait a month and you're good to go ;)

Here's a thought; How about foreigners stop using fake US addresses to circumvent things they shouldn't be.

lol @ the young mind. You'll get it, eventually.

Steam isn't forcing you, you don't have to continue using their market if you don't want to provide the proper tax information.

Wasn't this in a Scam Mail before? i believe that I've seen those sentences in another Thread before where someone made a screenshot of the Mail and it was SOOOO obviously a scam

I think it happened to me last year when i traded a lot of cards on the market, but as far as i can remember i just had to click a checkmark that i'm not a US citizen and it never mentioned it again.

That happens when you reach certain amount of money gotten from the market.

Ok, I've read all of your comments and I thank you for taking the time to answer me. I have decided not to take any action for the time being, concidering I'm not restricted of anything on STEAM at the moment and I do not plan on using the market, if I am to be restricted. If in the future I do plan on using it, I'll consider it, but for now I'm not comfortable with giving my information in some form. If they want my address, they should check my IP because I'm sure they have it...or they could just look at the purchases and see that I've provided a valid address, whenever I bought games. Anyways, closing this thread hence I've reached a conclusion. Thanks again.