Opening a spanish bank account
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 12:09pm
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Can anyone tell me please if you need a NIE to open an account in Spain. Asking for a friend who visits often with a view to buying a property eventually. TIA
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 4:22pm
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There was a report recently on this forum of someone opening an account with Sabadell without needing an NIE.
I really don't understand this. Banks have to report account information to the tax agency, and to do that they need an NIE number.
If it's a non-resident account, they also need a certificate of non-residence, and will get that themselves for a fee but, again, this needs an NIE number.
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 6:05pm
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patsyd wrote on Fri Jun 29, 2018 12:09pm:
Can anyone tell me please if you need a NIE to open an account in Spain. Asking for a friend who visits often with a view to buying a property eventually. TIA
I opened my account with Sabadell last April with just my passport. I am non-resident and was looking to buy a property. I was later asked for my UK National Insurance number which allows them to establish that I am a UK resident for tax purposes.
Hope that helps
Shaun
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 5:20am
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Thank you, Kim, I'd forgotten about the relatively recent use of tax ID numbers.
patsyd wrote on Fri Jun 29, 2018 12:09pm:
Can anyone tell me please if you need a NIE to open an account in Spain. Asking for a friend who visits often with a view to buying a property eventually. TIA
We opened a non resident bank account last month before we obtained our NIE numbers with Sabadell bank and they were extremely helpful, it changes to a resident bank account when we obtain our Residencia.
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patsyd wrote on Fri Jun 29, 2018 12:09pm:
Can anyone tell me please if you need a NIE to open an account in Spain. Asking for a friend who visits often with a view to buying a property eventually. TIA
We didn't one to open our first but might have changed by now
Posted: Mon Jul 2, 2018 9:20am
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Hi guys, thanks for all your replies which are really helpful. We have our NIE’s and yeh...had to give bank of UK NI number at a later stage. My friend is going to be over in Spain for two weeks this month. I will tell him to make sure he has his NI. number with him and hopefully this will allow him to open an account until he can get an NIE.
Thanks again 👍
Posted: Mon Jul 2, 2018 11:25am
patsyd wrote on Fri Jun 29, 2018 12:09pm:
Can anyone tell me please if you need a NIE to open an account in Spain. Asking for a friend who visits often with a view to buying a property eventually. TIA
We opened a bank account with Banco Sabadell & have debit cards, we didn't need an NIE.
Posted: Mon Jul 2, 2018 5:26pm
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Thanks Gaz..that’s good to know 👍
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