Tax Status Declaration - Individual

Hi all

My wife was recently successful with her FLR(M) visa application. Therefore we have been to the bank to get her name added onto my bank account, to create a joint account.

The bank have written to her, asking for clarification of her tax residency. However, the form they have asked her to complete is not very self-explanatory! I'm hoping that someone can provide some help.

The question I have is with regards to Part 2 - Tax residency and tax citizenship information. In this section they are asking for details of the countries she has been a tax resident in, over the past calendar year. Her circumstances are such that she was resident in Argentina until 5 Nov 2015, then resident in the UK from 6 Nov 2015 to present.

The form asks whether she was a 'Tax resident for the last calendar year'. The answer is either Yes or No. If No is selected, the applicable dates must be entered. What I'm getting hung up on is the wording. She was not an Argentinian tax resident FOR the last calendar year, but was an Argentinian tax resident IN the last calendar year.

In the bank's own online example they have marked a person as answering Yes to being a tax resident in the UK for the last calendar year (applicable dates then given as 1/1/15 to 30/6/15) and Yes to being a tax resident in Australia for the last calendar year (applicable dates then given as 1/7/15 to present). Surely this is wrong, or am I just being stupid? A person can't be a tax resident FOR the last calendar year, then give dates within that year???

So I just need to know whether to answer Yes or No to her 2 countries. Has anyone had experience of this form?

Thanks in advance!

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