Posted by David Anthony
on October 29, 2009, 8:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Banking in Ireland"
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If you own a TV in Ireland you need a TV licence. Inspectors can knock on your door anytime and demand to see your TV licence (we have heard this from people we met here).
The TV licence cost us 160 Euro for the year and we got ours from the post office. They filled in our names and address without asking to see any proof of who we were or where we lived.
When we went to the welfare office to get our PPS number they were quite happy to use the TV licence as proof of residence.
The bank was more sticky so that is why we had to first get the TV licence and use that to get the PPS documentation which we could then show to the bank.
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: Hm. An interesting workaround, Dave. What is a
: TV license? Is everyone required to have
: one? Can you get one with no official proof
: of residence?
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: John
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: --Previous Message--
: Hi John
:
: We moved to Ireland about 3 months ago from
: South Africa.
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: We found that opening a bank account was
: pretty painful - they want some proof of
: your residence like a utility bill or
: government correspondence addressed to your
: residence.
:
: Thanks to some great advice that we picked
: up on this site, we ended up popping down to
: the post office and getting a tv licence
: with our address on it (no questions asked).
: We then showed the TV licence when applying
: for our PPS numbers. The official letter for
: the PPS arrived 3 days later and we were
: able to use that letter to open the bank
: account.
:
: Dave
:
: --Previous Message--
: My impending move approaches. I'm trying to
: get over there by Nov 15 (I have a flight
: voucher that expires then), and I have a few
: apartments in Galway that I'm about to close
: the deal on. I'm looking for advice on
: banking though. What are the pros/cons of
: keeping my American bank account instead of
: opening an Irish one? I'm looking to stay
: here only a year, but if it's relatively
: easy to open an Irish bank account, I'll do
: that. Thoughts? Thanks!
:
: John
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