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Tax Identification Number

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 4:57am
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When I tried to sign into my Spanish Bank Account it asks to update my details, and it asks me for TIN (Tax Identification Number)

Is this to take tax from my salary, I only visit my apartment 2-4 weeks a year


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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 8:06am

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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 8:06am

PStJambo wrote on Fri Sep 23, 2022 4:57am:

When I tried to sign into my Spanish Bank Account it asks to update my details, and it asks me for TIN (Tax Identification Number)

Is this to take tax from my salary, I only visit my apartment 2-4 weeks a year

 

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peter

Banks often ask for updates on your personal information. I don't think it's for anything sinister but simply to keep all records accurate. 

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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 11:00am

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Your account my be blocked if you do not updaye your personal circumstances.

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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 6:20pm

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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 6:20pm

Everyone who pays tax in Spain should have a TIN but you'll only get it after you've done your first tax return.

Presumably you are non resident and  have no salary in Spain and no way can the Spanish take money from you in UK.

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 7:57pm

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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 7:57pm

PStJambo wrote on Fri Sep 23, 2022 4:57am:

When I tried to sign into my Spanish Bank Account it asks to update my details, and it asks me for TIN (Tax Identification Number)

Is this to take tax from my salary, I only visit my apartment 2-4 weeks a year

 

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peter

Hi Peter,

As you are a non resident what they want is your UK National insurance number. If it’s a joint account they will need the NI number of the joint account holder as well. I had the same request when I was drawing cash from our account from the ATM. Luckily enough it  was from the machine just outside our local bank, so went inside and asked what it was all about. The manager explained that it was our NI numbers, I didn’t know them off hand so he just said email them to him and he would sort it out. We were returning to UK next day, so when we got home I sent them to him, all sorted. As stated above by killjoy, your account will be blocked if you don’t comply. It’s just something additional that is required since Brexit. Definitely, it’s your NI number that they need. Hope that helps, it’s just to update your records.

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 2:41pm

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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 2:41pm

Hew wrote on Fri Sep 23, 2022 7:57pm:

Hi Peter,

As you are a non resident what they want is your UK National insurance number. If it’s a joint account they will need the NI number of the joint account holder as well. I had the same request when I was drawing cash from our account from the ATM. Luckily enough it  was from the machine jus...

 

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...t outside our local bank, so went inside and asked what it was all about. The manager explained that it was our NI numbers, I didn’t know them off hand so he just said email them to him and he would sort it out. We were returning to UK next day, so when we got home I sent them to him, all sorted. As stated above by killjoy, your account will be blocked if you don’t comply. It’s just something additional that is required since Brexit. Definitely, it’s your NI number that they need. Hope that helps, it’s just to update your records.

Hi we were asked for our NI number by our bank(Ciaxa Bank) but it was only to update their records, nothing sinister.

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