Richart - The first almost/kinda/marginally/minuscularly foreigner friendly bank

[Andrew]

Just applied for an account, having collected my new ARC today. (Well, almost - I still need to do the authentication step, which the website won’t let me do at the moment because it needs another Taiwanese bank account, and all of mine are still tied to my old ARC number so it failed.)

The tax residency bit is rather pushy:

@Richart

Are you exclusively a tax resident of the Republic of China (Taiwan)?
Yes No

@Andrew

Yes No

@Richart

If you have a country’s nationality typically means you are this country’s tax resident. Please confirm your tax residency is reasonable!

@Andrew

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@Richart

Having a country’s nationality typically means you are tax resident of that country. Please confirm you are a tax resident of the following country or countries: TAIWAN
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@Andrew

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@Richart

Please make sure that you are only a Tax Resident of Taiwan. If you choose this option, Richart will contact you to confirm. If proved you are not only a Tax Resident of Taiwan, you will have to visit a Taishin Branch to renew system information to continue the account application process.
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@Andrew

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Jesus, I told you already. No need to ask me four times.