03 Apr 2012 9:28 PM:
Hi johnwm,
Yes I didi wonder myself and still am to a degree.
It is my assumption that when you press ‘Validate’ it only creates the PDF with unique number on your hard drive and also allows you to SAVE a PDF as well. It does not send anything electronically to AEAT unless you have applied for the electronic signature.
I believe that when you take it to the bank, they manually punch in the unique number or scan the barcode??? or do they scan the document (your copy).
At least if you go to bank you will get stamped proof of payment which you can produce whenever required.
I won’t know till I take my forms personally sometime in June.
With the electronic signature – will you not incur bank charges for processing the payment each year?
All very interesing and irritating at the same time. I think we all need to continue exchanging info to eventually fully understand this.
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paying non resident tax
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