My turn! I hadn’t realised that using Wise to transfer money from the UK to France automatically creates a bank account number/sort code etc in the UK. I don’t use Wise to hold money or anything fancy. I asked my faithful AI scribe to draft a suitably grovelling letter to the Impots , explaining my lack of familiarity with the structure of Wise, the fact that no income, interest or gains has arisen due to my Wise account but of course I was jolly sorry etc. Message sent.Back came the reply today. Short and to the point..Amend your current return (already filed) to show the UK account in the 3916 section. End of message!
The tricky bit was persuading the online system to accept the bank details. It repeatedly refused to let me ‘valider’ the new entry, complaining I was using weird characters other than letters and numbers. I wasn’t. In the end it agreed to let me enter the details, provided the London bank address was all on one continuous line, including the post code. Hopefully no pe…
Roger_Lapin:
It’s not a bank account so I’ve never bothered. Unlike, say, Revolut, which is a bank which I declare amongst others. Wise doesn’t offer any banking products
Unfortunately as I recently discovered, Wise creates actual bank accounts when transferring your money, hence the requirement to report them on a French return…
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