Just for fun, while I was taking some documents to the tax office earlier this month I got them to issue me a residence certificate for this year and the last four years (five years is the maximum permitted, apparently).
Probably won’t be too useful, but I figured I might be able to use it the next time a Taiwanese bank is telling me I’m not resident here.
There’s a section on the form asking about the purpose of the application, whether it’s for applying a tax treaty with another country or some other reason. I wrote a short little rant in there about how I want it to stop Taiwanese banks falsely declaring my tax residency on CRS forms, because it’s very common for them to do that. 