Take action against Taiwan bank tax residency tax certificates

[Andrew]

Take action against Taiwan bank tax residency tax certificates

Total fucking saga in Mega Bank today. I went in to give them my APRC details and make sure my credit card was okay for use abroad, and while I was doing that I asked to quickly confirm that my tax residency was correctly set as ZZ on their system, having spent an hour or so arguing about this in June-ish when I filled in the last CRS form while updating my details to the new ARC number. I showed the clerk a withholding certificate from Taishin correctly showing “ZZ” to help explain what I was t…

I just received my tax withholding statement for 2023 from Mega Bank. Astonishingly, they ended up listing me as a resident and that I stayed in Taiwan for >183 days in 2023 (this is true, but I didn’t prove it to them - just complained until all of us were bored and far beyond).

I’m not “GB” anymore as well. I’m not “ZZ” either. I’m just nothing. I’m pretty sure that means they haven’t filled out the form correctly, but I’ll take it!